The Plaud Note is an AI-powered recording and transcription machine, designed for professionals.
Its usually a clunky affair, recording on one rig before uploading and transcribing using a web-based service.
The Plaud Note and its companion app bundle both processes into a single ecosystem, streamlining the experience.
Fellow journalists can output fully formatted Q&A interviews.
Employers can generate structured summaries and analysis of interviews with job candidates.
Busy professionals can have entire hours-long meetings summarized in whatever way makes most sense for their teams and workflows.
The Plaud Note has so much potential.
But is it worth the money?
Find out in my full Plaud Note review.
Plaud Note review: Price & availability
The Plaud note is available from plaud.ai andAmazon.
In the U.S., the basic packagestarts at $159, and in the U.K. it’s149 at Amazon.
Thats a pretty reasonable price if you ask me, especially for professionals and the corporate sphere.
you could buy cases in various colors for $19 separately.
Theres only one storage size available, which is 64GB, but thatll net you plenty of audio files.
Even with my MagSafe phone case, the Note could drop off quite easily.
With my phone case off however it stayed fixed where it was.
The Note has a simple but intuitive interface.
There’s a start/stop recording button, plus a mode toggle to switch between general and call recording modes.
As a recorder, the Plaud performs competently.
Its two MEM microphones happily picked up the sound of my voice when I was taking memos.
It also easily picked up an entire meeting I hosted with my team over Google Meet.
In call mode the Note uses a third VCS microphone.
All three features do exactly what they say on the package.
Transcripts came out incredibly accurate, with minimal tweaking required in Google Docs to tidy them up.
I can see the suggestions coming in very useful, though, in different scenarios.
It performed in exemplary fashion, recognizing the different voices and assigning questions and answers to both.
I could use the audio recording to add in the final missed question and answer.
Custom templates
you might also create your own templates.
I created a prompt for the Note to turn my vocal dictations into formatted reviews.
I was genuinely staggered by the job it did.
The app also lets you pick from industry glossaries, making transcriptions more accurate for specific industry areas.
you’re able to add custom terms if your preferred jargon is particularly niche.
What happens if Plaud decides no longer to support the app?
Plaud claims a 2 hour charge time, which proved accurate in testing.
As a journalist, simply having the ability to record and transcribe within a single ecosystem is super exciting.
However, I have my concerns.
And if it wont, what will happen to the Plaud app, which the Note overwhelmingly relies on?
Even if Plaud exists, what if it decides to stop supporting the app?
Itll be staying MagSafed indefinitely to the back of my iPhone, thats for sure.
