Allison interviews Elina Tsao from PLAUD AI about their new AI note-taking devices: the PLAUD Note and the PLAUD NotePin.
The PLAUD Note voice recorder is a credit-card-sized device that is used to record calls, meetings, interviews, lectures, and voice memos. It is MagSafe compatible and is small enough to magnetically attach to the back of your phone without covering the camera lenses.
With a single press to start a voice recording, the PLAUD Note provides 30 hours of continuous recording with 60 days of standby power and 64 GB of storage. The Note supports 112 transcription languages.
Using the PLAUD app developed on GPT-4o and Claude 3.5, the device will transcribe and summarize recorded voice. PLAUD offers several plans for varying levels of transcription time and cloud storage. Advanced encryption techniques protect your data in transit and at rest.
PLAUD NotePin is a wearable AI memory capsule that makes capturing ideas seamless and effortless. The NotePin is small enough to wear as a necklace, pin, or wristband, or just hold in your hand. You can record your thoughts instantly with a simple squeeze of the button whether you’re sitting, walking, working, or on the go.
The NotePin can be especially useful for lecturers, doctors, engineers, reporters, and journalists, among many other use cases.
Learn more at https://plaud.ai/
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Transcript of Interview:
Allison: We’ve been talking a lot about AI at CES this week, as you would expect, but I’m talking to Elina from PLAUD.AI. They have wearable AI and she’s going to tell us all about it.
Elina: Sure. So we have this AI voice recorders that helps you record the meeting or conversations and then give you AI-generated transcripts and summaries. So you don’t need to type your meeting minutes ever again.
Allison: That sounds good. So what are the form factors for this?
Elina: So for this one, it’s our first product. It’s called PLAUD Note. You can carry it around just with your phone. We have this magnet compatible case that’s included in every package. And for this one, we launched in 2024. It’s a wearable device that you can wear as a necklace, a wristband, or a pin or a back clip. Four ways of wearing it.
Allison: So these are devices that have a microphone, record the audio, figure out and do a transcription of it. And then what happens next?
Elina: Correct. We give you everything. The transcripts, the audio file, the summarization, and map and to-do list. Everything.
Allison: Oh, and a to-do list. Okay. Well, shoot. I’m going to get action items out of this. That’s not good. But so this device that’s on your wrist, she’s got a beautiful bracelet. It’s kind of a lozenge sitting on a bracelet. Looks lovely. And I can see it as a lovely necklace here. I’m confused. How does it get from that device to giving me all this information? Is it uploading to the cloud? What’s going on here?
Elina: That’s correct. So the recording files are stored on device. We have a 64 gigabytes local storage. And when you start to generate the transcripts and summaries, that’s when you upload the recording files to the Google Cloud. That’s where we process the voice to text and text to summaries.
Allison: Okay. So does it go from the device on your wrist to your phone and then up to the cloud?
Elina: Yep. Correct.
Allison: And it’s a Google Cloud, you said?
Elina: Yes.
Allison: Let’s talk about security then. What’s happening up in the cloud?
Elina: Well, it’s encrypted. So we don’t have access to your conversation. We only use the large language models API to process the voice files. And because we’re using like the business, like enterprise API, the large language models company also promised that they don’t use your conversation data to train their machine.
Allison: They will or will not?
Elina: They will not.
Allison: And what large language model is it?
Elina: GPT-4o and cloud 3.5.
Allison: Very, very interesting. The smartest ones.
Elina: So far, you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow, right?
Allison: Exactly. So if, let’s say I wanted this one that’s got the, you’ve got the magnetic connector. So it’s basically like a MagSafe wallet on the back. Looks like your credit card, but that’s actually recording. How much does that cost?
Elina: This one is 159 available on our website on Amazon in Best Buy.
Allison: And then is there a monthly subscription?
Elina: No, we have a starter plan that after you buy this device and have your own account, you can already start using it. We have 300 minutes of free quota every month to the starter plan users.
Allison: Oh, that’s a good idea. And then what about this lozenge wearable device for the necklace and the bracelet?
Elina: Yeah. So this is 169 because we have this whole accessory kit that goes with it.
Allison: Okay. So it’s, it’s pretty. Are you good? Now I’m not sure the men are going to like it, but I think it’s adorable.
Elina: Thank you.
Allison: All right. So if people wanted to learn more about plaud.ai, where would they go?
Elina: Just go to www.plaud.ai.
Allison: There you go. I bet that was a setup, but you also said that some of these products are on Amazon already.
Elina: Yes. They’re both on Amazon.
Allison: They are very cool. Thank you for talking to us.
Elina: Thank you.