Anker is the most recent firm to announce an AI-powered voice recorder designed to transcribe, summarize, and spotlight vital moments from a dialog or assembly. Its performance is just like what’s provided by units just like the Bee or Plaud NotePin, however the Soundcore Work manages to additional shrink the {hardware} right down to a good smaller coin-sized wearable.
Launching in September with a wider world rollout anticipated later this 12 months, the Work measures simply 0.91 inches throughout — and whereas that’s lower than the diameter of 1 / 4, the recorder is definitely a bit thicker than a coin. It’s priced at $99.99, which incorporates “fundamental providers,” however Anker will even offer a $15.99 per thirty days subscription that features extra options not but revealed.
The Work is designed to be hooked up to a lanyard or worn in your clothes utilizing a magnetic clip. Weighing simply 10 grams, it’s small and light-weight however nonetheless manages as much as eight hours of battery life, in keeping with Anker. If that’s not sufficient, the Work’s proprietary charger has a battery of its personal that can maintain it powered for as much as 32 hours.
As a substitute of capturing each interplay you’ve all day lengthy, the Work solely begins recording audio by means of its twin mics when tapped, whereas a double faucet helps you to mark vital elements of a dialog which can be highlighted later in transcripts.
The recorder makes use of on-device GPT-4o to transcribe audio recordings in additional than 100 languages. Each the transcripts and audio recordings can be found within the Soundcore cellular app and might be searched or exported to different codecs. Anker says recordings are encrypted and processed domestically for privateness causes however might be bounced by means of the cloud when you need to share them with somebody.