Matter of record
Exaggerated claims are made about the burgeoning abilities of AI – not least by AI firms themselves – but occasionally you see indisputable evidence. In the past few years, transcription services (ie, audio-
to-text) have morphed from neat trick to essential tool: fast, accurate, able to discern between individual voices and rarely foxed by accents. The donkey work is undertaken by models run by OpenAI, Google, Amazon and Microsoft, but there is a growing number of consumer-facing products providing convenient access to them. Plaud’s Note Pro is, by some measure, the easiest and most user-friendly I’ve tried.
It’s the most user-friendly AI transcription service I’ve tried
The Plaud Note Pro is both a recording device and a bridge to the transcription models. The size of a credit card and almost as slim, it has a single button (press to record and again to stop) and exceptionally long battery life (up to 75 days on standby). Chuck it on the desk, set it going, and its four microphones reliably capture chat going on around it, with no smartphone needed until you want to generate the transcripts.
