That's what happens when companies have the Gold Rush mentality. They aren't making these things to fill a certain need, they are making them because AI is the hot buzzword for investors, just like Crypto/Web3. Or how IoT was in the early 2010s.
They are incredibly short term, for sure. Why would I want a device that does one thing when my phone can do so many things and do them mostly well? Why would I want to talk to a lapel pin to interact with it at all times? I don't even like speaking to my smart watch in public.
What a joke, paying over a hundred dollars for a slab of metal with mics and processors and you still have to pay a subscription ontop for advertised features.
@@MatanumiWith AI, there’s no way. Operating cost is directly proportional to usage. Nearly any company would go bankrupt offering a free AI service, unless you’re a juggernaut like Microsoft or Google. Even then they’re just selling your data, with these AI tools as a perfect gateway.
They have to pay fees to Open AI for using their API, keeping it forever free will not be sustainable as product like these certainly won't be able to convince you upgrade every year. It just sad truth for these small companies that have great product, but because they are small and have to relies on services from companies like Open AI API, Amazon AWS or Azure server
I do not think these can be used for training, because for that, you need the correct version of the audio in text format, and the audio clip. A better training can be achieved by just using human subtitled videos on youtube, and subtitles movies and tv shows.
Those simple ferrous (not magnetic, they're just metal) rings suck if you want to continue using Qi. At best, they'll make a Qi charger shut down due to foreign object detection. At worst, they get extremely hot and present a burn or even fire hazard. I really appreciate that you dug into the company's terms of service and privacy policy. I feel that these have been glossed over far too much with almost every company we deal with for the past forty some-odd years, and we've ended up in this awful state for it.
I still think expensive unitaskers whose only crutch is ai are stupid. If my galaxy s24 didn't have some of its ai features baked in i ironically might be happier with the phone. (mostly bc the ai features i have used just are pretty terrible like photo editing)
Because if it was an app, they would just blend in with thousands of other apps and most people would not care. A physical product with a cool design is a way to catch people’s attention
Because if it was an app, they couldn't charge 160 for a lump of metal to coerse people to pay 180 a year to use the product that they just purchased, instead most people who would be interested in this app would download it, realize it's another subscription service and then uninstall the app.
I think it could be a nice gadget that works better than an app if the mic quality was noticeably better than the average phone. I have used my phone to try to record meetings but found that most phones aren't that great for picking up voices from afar. This product however doesn't sound all that great
I believe it has a place (especially because of call recording and all the drama related to that), BUT it needs to offer everything there is related to that -prompt programming option, labeling speakers (not just 2 in calls, but everyone in the meeting) - also an option to rename those speakers manually afterwards and unlimited (or memory limited) recording. I understand subscription for AI summary (there are resources needed that cost money; I don't agree with it) but it needs to be lower and there should be tiers. This is the only way it has value IMO.
Thank you so much for including a small privacy research in the review. Most reviewers just ignore that part, but it is a glaring problem with all the new cloud based AI systems. Almost none of the advanced features are available on device without some sort of upload.
I feel like this one might survive and evolve. Very interesting idea indeed. Especially for places that don't allow cameras but still allow audio recorders. The transcription service definitely sets it apart from current audio recorders.
I'm not one for this type of product. Great video either way. On a side note: I bought a Clicks case for my wife's phone and she's been loving it ever since.
OH MY GOD you did Captains logs too?? I still have my microcassette from the 90's and...so many captain's logs. Me and a friend had a blast logging like, everything we saw.
Most of these AI powered devices seem pointless when I already have an AI app on my phone that pretty much does the same things. I give these devices 6-8 months before the company dies and the servers are shut down, making it an expensive paperweight.
I'm tempted. If you're a content creator, you want a recorder on the go to capture your fleeting thoughts without having to use your phone as it can distract the thoughts.
I don't think many employers would be comfortable having this listen in on meetings and allowing a third party's AI summarising discussions that might be commercially sensitive.
I have a feeling that the 2020s will be remembered in the tech world as the decade where many great products were destroyed by using a subscription model. I think we'll eventually get to the point where subscription becomes a dirty word because consumers are so tired of them and have so many. They are so anti-consumer that people will eventually say enough is enough. At least I hope so.
Transcribing and then summarizing voice recordings actually sounds like a use for AI I can get behind. But like everyone else has said, the subscription kills this for everyday use.
I hate to be a downer, but man I for one cannot wait till the tech industry gets over the AI fad and needlessly shoehorning it into everything they can see or touch
Hey boss, I don't know if you been told this before but you been doing the cleanest sponsorship introductions in the industry. How i wish other creators would do it like you: the disclaimer at the beginning of the video. Keep it up! And have a great day.
as said by many, this is a no go. if I ever cared about using this process daily, my phone already does it. the smartphone has solved a bunch of tasks we use or eventually will if it hasnt already...
I use Google's recorder for work and it does a serviceable job for free. The transcriptions and AI summaries aren't perfect but the app works well enough to go back and remember a conversation.
It's an interesting technology, I wonder if the real point of that many gadgets being developed around AI is to create something to be bought by a bigger company
Yeah seems like we're in another boom of tech that isn't really being made for consumers. They are sham products that just need to be plausible enough to appeal to VCs and larger companies, and once the founder cashes out, the whole brand gets abandoned.
As soon as the term "subscription" came up, the interest went to zero. Not paying for something I already have on every other device I own... for FREE. And without the data feed into some AI.
Accurate describing and relating to the audience. You dialed in ... on many marketing aspects (relatable, ADHD style- I enjoyed processing the various ways you expressed value through content styling. Proud of you. I appreciate the effort and value the content.
So as someone who has used whisper before, are they really using the API and then fronting the costs to users? You can easily run whisper directly on phone hardware, what a weird grift if that's the case.
Regarding reviews, It'd be great if you did PhoneCam - essenitally a $70 AI pin, Schiffmann's Tab AI (around 600$) and Rewind Pendant: Rewindai - a 60$ Tab. It would be great if one reviewer compared those similar devices to see why is there a 10x$ difference and if it's justifiable.
I just don’t get it. Why would you carry around an extra product which is meant to go on the back of your phone, that does the same thing that the phone already does? This 100+ dollar product with a subscription is already a free app
Call recording is such a small yet important option for me. I've set my oneplus 9 to automatically record calls from unknown numbers and it tells the other side when it starts/ ends recording and i've saved a lot of time because scammers and time wasters listen to the phone tell them that it is recording and just end the call themselves.
this would be great if it worked with google ( and without the plaud subscription, they make plenty money just on the hardware and replacing the ones that fall off a building, or get dropped in concrete) . This is great for people who do site visits, as the phone microphone would be busy during video taking.
I don't know about the US, but in the UK we can record phone calls but have to advise the other person that we are doing so first. Recorded calls can still be inadmissible in court if the other party refused permission to record.
In the UK, we only have to advise the other person we are recording the phone call if we are calling on behalf of a business. Personal phone calls do not need the alert
On one hand, the new generation have shown some interests in limiting their smart phone usage. On the other hand, the majority are still simply leaning more toward all-in-one device direction. It is hard to imagine a day that such secondary devices can find their place back in our pockets unless the software/hardware solution can be truly unique... (which I doubt)
I can run Whisper from OpenAI completely offline on my iPhone for free, the maximum length of audio I've tried is about one hour due to the RAM limitation on iPhone. The limitation doesn't exist on iPad or Mac.
I've been in search of a super compact voice recorder for long meetings at work. Using my phone isn't that great because it has trouble picking up voices far away. If this had better mics and didn't have a subscription, I would be all over this.
If it had a companion app that utilized open source/portable models like Vicuna and ran locally to avoid much of these red flags I'm seeing at the cost of some speed then I'd actually buy one. However that's not the case unfortunately
And this product is DOA. Absolutely absurd price for a subscription for a product that has zero rational for having it. They have to disable the AI aspect for a free version subscription access to even have a chance
I was on board until they flat out put the subscription service and of course, the sheer suspiciousness of their privacy. Also...Michael saying how excited he is for the Rabbit and Humane AI Pin... _ouch..._
It was confusing because the video appeared to compare to other voice memo apps, but the voice memo app shown with the different summary structures was actually the Plaud app.
Like all the other AI powered gizmos and gadgets these companies are trying to sell us, it’ll be infinitely better as an app on a smartphone than a standalone device
Great video again! I wanted to watch more your videos after this one, the ones I haven’t watched yet. I had to scroll 3 years back to LG Crystal video. 😂
The only way I see these AI devices find any foothold is if they include novel hardware accelerated processors built specifically to run their model architecture on-device. Anything that can be achieved with general purpose processors will be achieved by your smartphone anyhow.
Ya but, there is no pause button, so dictation means stopping the app, then waiting the startup time to begin again, then a million little separate files. So it's for meetings . . .
Auri AI app does exactly this, voice notes transcribed via whisper and much more, without the needed extra hardware and the subscription would be cheaper. I don't understand why you'd need extra hardware when your phone is all the hardware yourl need.
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