Plaud Launches A New Ai Hardware Notetaker, The $179 Note Pro

Hardware institution Plaud.ai has released its caller beingness notetaker, nan Plaud AI Pro, connected Wednesday. The notetaker, priced astatine $179, comes 2 years aft nan original Plaud Note was released, and a twelvemonth aft the institution released an AI Pin.

For group who haven’t seen one, nan Plaud Note is simply a credit-card-sized hardware notetaker, which tin instrumentality connected nan backmost of your telephone and thief you return notes for calls aliases in-person meetings.

The Note Pro looks akin to nan original Note, but there’s 1 awesome difference. The caller instrumentality has a mini 0.95-inch AMOLED screen, which shows accusation for illustration a signaling parameter and artillery level.

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The Note Pro offers a 30-hour signaling capacity for nan modular range. But you tin push nan instrumentality to grounds for 50 hours pinch a shorter scope of 9.8 feet (nearly 3 meters) connected a azygous charge.

The institution said that nan Note Pro has 4 MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) mics, compared pinch 2 connected nan last-gen device, to amended seizure audio. Because of this, nan Note Pro tin seizure audio wrong nan scope of 16.4 feet (nearly 5 meters), resulting successful a 2x jump successful scope from nan original Note Pro. The startup said users will get amended sound suppression and speaker discovery pinch nan caller device, arsenic well.

While you had to manually move betwixt calls and in-person signaling connected nan original Note, nan Note Pro uses an auto-detection characteristic for this.

Plaud.ai is besides updating its companion app pinch caller features. You tin return notes successful matter connected your telephone — conscionable for illustration Granola — and adhd images, for illustration slides.

The app update besides offers “multidimensional summaries,” which let you to extract insights successful different formats, specified arsenic cardinal insights aliases information items. The institution built templates for summary generation, and nan app tin automatically propose nan correct 1 based connected your role. Plus, you tin build your ain templates.

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Another caller feature, still successful beta, allows you to query your notes.

The Plaud Note Pro is priced astatine $179 / £169, and users tin pre-order nan instrumentality starting today, pinch shipping slated for October 2025. The institution said group pre-ordering nan instrumentality will get 600 complimentary transcription minutes on pinch a magnetic case. Users tin get 300 minutes of monthly transcription for free, and if they want more, they would request to bargain a paid monthly scheme aliases a one-time top-up.

Plaud is 1 of nan companies that has been successfully chugging on erstwhile different AI instrumentality makers haven’t had a batch of popularity. Exor-backed Bee sewage acquired by Amazon, and Friend just started shipping aft a fewer delays.

Plaud said that it has shipped complete a cardinal units of its AI hardware notetakers, pinch astir 50% users upgrading to nan Pro plan.