Run whisper locally on my phone. Or let me link it with my google gemini or anthropic accoutns and transcribe there.
$20 to $30 a month is absolutely insane for what you're offering, and there is zero justification for it.
I’m currently using Superwhisper on all of my devices (upgraded from Dragon Naturally Speaking, and would never go back!) to dictate novels, but I’ve been very interested in getting a dedicated dictation device for a while and Plaud keeps coming up. I’m aware my use case isn’t what it’s designed for, but I’d love to know if it would work anyway.
Are you able to enter custom instructions? For example, instead of summarizing a recording, could I get it to format my words directs into prose, including automatically inserting quotation marks around dialogue, adding a line break when I say “new paragraph,” etc, without changing much when it comes to the actual content I dictated?
Have any other novelists used Plaud to dictate their books, rather than just for note taking?
I’d love to hear firsthand from other users whether this will work for me, or if someone is aware of a better device, I would appreciate being pointed that direction!
ETA: Adding this update in case anyone else has a similar question. I ended up purchasing a Plaud NotePin S and am able to get the exact workflow I want with a custom template! I can dictate exactly like I do with Superwhisper (and like I used to do with Dragon), and it provides both a word for word transcription and a cleaned up version with proper punctuation, line breaks, and automatically applied quotation marks around dialogue. I’ll probably still use Superwhisper for long sessions at my desk, but this is going to be amazing for inspiration that hits me when I’m on a walk or lying in bed or anywhere else where I don’t want to sit down with a computer. All I have to do is copy and paste it from the Plaud app to my writing program, then proofread and sometimes do a few minor tweaks.
I’m still playing around with it, but so far I highly recommend it for other writers who like to dictate. It’s important to get your prompt right and keep an eye out for hallucinations so it doesn’t change your words, but it’s way, way, way more accurate than Dragon Naturally Speaking.
I purchased PL Pro and immediately requested a BAA at support and at privacy emails . After receiving a blank one, I filled in my part and a week has passed with not reply. Numerous requests for completed BAA answered with canned "I'm sorry for the inconvenience." Free trial of unlimited ended. I requested extension while they work this out, denied.
The device and service is useless to me as a medical professional without an executed BAA. This is not a business issue. It is a HIPPA COMPLIANCE ISSUE. For an AI company, returning an executed BAA should be quick and automatic.
This feels like false advertising. And it appears that Plaud has little interest in resolving it.
Manage client accounts, so I'm in in-person meetings several times a week. The constant problem: choosing between actually listening and keeping up with notes. Usually both suffered.
Been using the Plaud NotePin S for about six weeks now. It clips to a collar or jacket, records the room offline, then you sync it to an app that generates a transcript and summary.
What actually shifted: I stopped writing during meetings. Not because I trust the AI completely, but knowing I can check the recording afterward allows me to just listen. The conversations got better.
The summaries are usable. Decisions and action items come out structured. Names and internal jargon still need correcting before I would forward anything, but that takes a few minutes rather than rebuilding from scratch.
I also like how i can flag a moment mid-meeting by pressing a physical button. When someone drops a hard deadline or a budget number, I press it once and that moment gets marked in the transcript. No more scrubbing through an hour of audio to find one sentence.
Where it breaks down: large rooms with more than seven or eight people. People at the far end get picked up less clearly.
Question for the thread: how are people handling the recording disclosure conversation with colleagues or clients? I always mention it before starting but it still comes across as a formal announcement. Has anyone found a way to normalize it?
Hi all! Has anyone been able to connect their Plaud MCP to Perplexity AI? I’m able to connect my Plaud account to ChatGPT, but I’m currently subscribed to Perplexity so I would prefer to centralize everything there since my calendar, tasks, and other stuff are also connected already. Thanks!
So I currently have an annual pro plan. It renewed in May.
I am thinking about switching to unlimited for a month to test out full-time recording. I want to try it out before committing to the annual unlimited plan.
Does anyone know, if I switched to unlimited for a month, will I lose what I’ve already put into my pro plan? If I switch back to pro, will it just reactivate my annual plan that I’ve already paid for?
Hi,
I am looking into getting plaud but I am wanting to know, can you use the hardware on multiple phones, I have multiple phones for work and was hoping that the one device could work across them all. And would I need to install the app on all of them or could I just upload to the one phone after the recording. Or does the recording require the app to be installed on the phone itself to be able to work?
Keen for advice here, thanks in advance!
I work for a large company with a huge IT org. The org hasn’t made specific rules clear on ai recording devices but enterprise data security rules are certainly out there.
So for the people working in large companies, do you even have a way to use these or just risk it?
I got one but now kind of scared to use it at work. I just want to use it for in person meetings.
I like keeping my Plaud device running throughout the day so I can capture personal thoughts, conversations, workflow ideas, meetings, and anything else I may want to organize and review at the end of the day.
One limitation I’ve run into is the five-hour recording length. When I try to transcribe a recording that long, Plaud doesn’t identify or assign names to the individual speakers. I also read somewhere that around three hours may be the upper limit for transcription + speaker naming within a single file.
Is there any way to customize Plaud so that it automatically ends the current recording every 2.5 to 3 hours, saves it as a file, and immediately starts a new recording? That would allow me to keep the device running throughout the day while keeping each recording within a more manageable length.
Small team, no dedicated conference room, meetings happen wherever there's an open chair that day. Went through three AI note taker device options plus two software tools trying to figure out what actually helps a team this size track decisions across a hybrid week.
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The problem wasn't recording here, everyone here records fine. For me, it was finding the one decision in a 40-minute transcript nobody had time to reread, and that is Plaud NotePin S. For a small team with no fixed room, a one-press flag beat conference-grade gear and full auto-transcripts. For online meetings tho, the two software options work. For hybrid-week decision tracking, what would software+hardware combo would you choose?
Will Plaud AI have a watermark on your output document?
Since the recordings are of conversations, that Plaud AI makes into a summarized more readable version, will there be watermarks because it is AI driven?
Hey - I work for a boomer company who only allows us to use Co-pilot and all things Microsoft, they’re verrrrry paranoid about AI right now.
I’m in an open plan office, on teams calls most of the day, in a few in person meetings. There’s no way I’d be able to download Plaude for desktop on my work computer and essentially would be using it secretly. So I’m wanting to know if it’s worth buying a Plaud?
Work around and suggestions are welcome!
I've been trying to use Plaud to help with a mineralogical analysis I'm working on at the microscope. Basically, I count grains and read out the mineral at each count. I've added all terms to my custom dictionary, I'm speaking loudly and clearly several inches from the device, the device is outside of its sleeve, and there is no external noise. Nonetheless, Plaud is consistently losing 5% to 15% of the words I'm reading into the device. I even tried reading back from Plaud's own transcript as a test and again got about 8% fewer words back. Is this lossiness expected or is there maybe some tweaking that would help improve the word recovery? Thanks
Is there any way to title recordings (these default to date/time) from calendar entries? I'd be open to some routine process at times if needed.
It appears MCP is read only and can't write so that is not an option. Manually titling records is the most frustrating thing about Plaud for me.
I'm ultimately looking for O365 as the source but would take Google Calendar if that is the only option. I thought i saw some official Google option at some point but can no longer find it.
Hello, everyone.
My boss recently ordered a Plaud Note Pro for me, as he thought it would be very handy.
It just arrived, and I am trying to to pair it with the Plaud app for Windows on my work laptop. All it does is defer me to the website, which shows a QR code to get the app.
I'm not syncing this to my personal phone. Is there any other way to connect the device?
Thanks in advance for any help.
I'm looking for a device to capture amd summarize conversations in large, noisy vendor halls at conferences.
In these situations, I'm typically standing next to a person in a booth, both facing a demo station, while they walk through a product demo. I might be on my feet for 8+ hours, with 8-10 30-min conversations over the course of a day.
It's a challenging acoustic environment. There is noise emanating from all directions, including basic crowd babble, other nearby conversations, and amplified presentations from across the hall.
NotePin S is clearly the go-to in general for on-the-go recording. That said, I was also thinking of the Note Pro, for the better microphone array, battery life and display.
Questions for you kind folks:
I run a small freelance consultancy on the side and my workdays have a specific pattern: a mix of Zoom calls, direct phone check-ins from clients, and occasional in-person catch-ups. kept losing track of action items from the phone and in-person ones, so I spent a few months actually testing tools. Here's what I found.
1. Scheduled video calls
Fireflies handles this well. Speaker labels, CRM push, topic breakdowns, everything lands in my workflow without extra energy. I've kept it running just for this. But it relies on a meeting bot, so if a client calls my cell directly or we sit down somewhere in person, nothing gets captured.
2. Live collaboration and shared notes
Otter is solid for real-time transcription. The shared transcript link is something clients actually use to track follow-ups between sessions. had some accuracy issues on technical topics and had to clean up a few transcripts. Same thing as Fireflies though: video calls work great, everything outside a meeting room just disappears.
3. Phone calls and in-person meetings
tried Plaud Note Pro for this. It clips to the back of your phone for call recording and sits on a table for in-person. fills the gap the apps couldn't possibly do. Summaries are on par with Fireflies quality. The only thing is the hardware cost, and you have to remember to actually clip it on before calls. forgot twice this week already.
What I'm actually using now: Fireflies for CRM logged video calls, Plaud Note Pro for everything else.
If your work is mostly video calls, Fireflies or Otter cover that without any hardware cost. For anyone else dealing with this kind of mixed setup, direct phone calls, in-person meetings that dont get a Zoom link. What kind of ai voice recorder are you using? Is there a software for capturing phone call meetings I've totally missed?
I'm three months into a solo B2B consultancy and last week was my first real hybrid client sprint: two days on site, three on Zoom. By Friday I had notes in four places and a rough idea of Tuesday, but nothing I would have bet a client deadline on.
I decided to treat the week like a stress test. Granola came from a founder Slack I'm in, people kept posting screenshots. Fathom was already on my calendar from earlier investor calls. A guy at my coworking space wears a Plaud NotePin S on his shirt and I asked him about it after overhearing him mention back to back meetings.
Zoom days I switched between the two. Granola on my Mac gave me readable summaries and no bot jumped into the call. Fathom was quicker to set up and the bot joined every time, but two clients asked who the extra person on the line was. Fine for internal calls, awkward when you're solo and trying not to look like a whole team.
On site days the wearable handled the small in person stuff. I clipped the Plaud NotePin S for coffee meetings and one on one check ins. I didn't need to charge it mid-day on the heaviest onsite day, and it caught quick follow ups across a desk or cafe table that I would have missed. Granola and Fathom were useless there because there was no Zoom call to attach to. I would not count on it in a big conference room.
By the end of the week I realised no single AI note taker covered the whole hybrid meetings week. I still run Fathom on Zoom and the Plaud NotePin S in person. Plaud NotePin S does not replace a meeting bot for online calls, full stop. If you're solo and bouncing between both, plan on two tools.
How would you guys handle hybrid weeks like this? Any other tools at all? If so, one tool or two?