Plaud Note Pro: AI dictation device gets button for big ideas
Plaud expands the new version of the Note dictation flipper with a signal button for call highlights and automatic switching between phone calls and group calls
At the touch of a button, you signal to the Plaud Note Pin Pro AI dictation machine when important key passages are said that you want it to emphasize later.
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With the Note, the company Plaud has miniaturized a dictation machine to credit card size that can be magnetically attached to a smartphone and then transcribes recordings with the help of AI. The Pro version now presented also shows the operating status, recording time and remaining battery life on a single-line OLED display. The height of just under three millimetres and the weight of around 30 grams remain the same.
The Pro model also records conversations between people within a radius of several meters or focuses on what is said during a phone call. However, the new device switches between these two modes automatically if required. It is no longer necessary to press a switch. Accidentally missing something that has been said or recording irrelevant background noise should therefore no longer be an issue.
Instead of two, the Note Pro now has four microphones listening in at a distance of up to five meters instead of the previous three meters. According to Plaud, the battery life has not been shortened. It is still up to 30 hours in standard mode with a listening range of five meters and automatic switching activated. It can be doubled to 60 hours if you limit the range to three meters and are prepared to switch between recording modes manually.
Hey AI, here comes big things
The recordings can be accessed as usual in the companion app or in the browser view of Plaud's cloud service, stored on Amazon's AWS web platform. The software uses a mix of language models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google to summarize what has been said, translate it and create mind maps or to-do lists from it.
With a new "Press to Highlight" function, it will be possible in future to signal with an app button or the press of a button on the Note Pro that the exchange of big ideas or decisions will now follow, so that the AI can give them a correspondingly higher weighting in the text editing.
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If you ask the app's chatbot function, it now searches through all files instead of just one. Furthermore, images and other graphic elements can be added to transcribed texts, making the software more like a note-taking program.
Plaud Note Pro is available to pre-order from today and will be available from October 2025 at a price of 190 euros. The updated app version 3.0 will then also be released. The previous Note model is still available for 170 euros. 300 transcribed recording minutes per month are included with purchase. More processing time and full access to up to 2.000 text genre templates can be booked in contingents starting at ten euros or a flat-rate subscription of 250 euros per year.
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