Plaud upgrades its card-sized AI note-taker with better range

Plaud, the institution down an AI wearable that really works, is launching an upgraded mentation of its recognition card-sized note-taking device. Just similar its Plaud Note predecessor, the Plaud Note Pro uses AI to record, transcribe, and summarize your conversations, but it present comes with 2 further microphones that let it to prime up audio wrong a 16.4-foot area, on with a 1-inch show that shows artillery level, signaling status, and the existent signaling mode.

The Plaud Note Pro automatically switches betwixt signaling calls and in-person meetings, eliminating the request for the carnal toggle connected the original Plaud Note released successful 2023. There’s besides a caller “endurance” artillery mode that extends the Plaud Note Pro’s 30 hours of signaling to 50 hours, successful speech for a little 9.8-foot audio pickup scope that comes with the basal Note. You tin presumption the AI-generated recordings, transcriptions, and summaries successful the accompanying Plaud app.

The Plaud Note Pro comes with a fastener that you tin usage for a “press-to-highlight” diagnostic arsenic well, which lets you emblem important accusation that you’re hearing. The ample connection models utilized by Plaud, including OpenAI’s GPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini, tin past make much elaborate summaries for these cardinal points from the Plaud app. Plaud spokesperson Alice Gordon-Purdy notes that highlighting isn’t exclusive to the Note Pro, arsenic basal Note users tin inactive “highlight” details done the Plaud app oregon iOS widget.

Plaud is besides updating its app successful October, which volition soon let Plaud Note and Note Pro users to input substance and upload images from their phones. It besides comes with a caller “Ask Plaud” diagnostic that lets you inquire questions astir the accusation you’ve recorded oregon uploaded. As is the lawsuit with the first-gen Plaud Note, the Note Pro is MagSafe-compatible, letting you instrumentality it to the backmost of your telephone with a magnetic case.

The Plaud Note Pro costs $179 and is available for preorder present earlier it starts shipping successful October. It comes with up to 300 transcription minutes per period by default, but you tin upgrade to a $99.99 / twelvemonth subscription for 1,200 minutes and precedence entree to caller features, oregon a $239.99 / twelvemonth program for unlimited transcription minutes.