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This is a great AI voice recorder, and it’s totally doomed

A photo of the Plaud NotePin attached to a lapel.
You can wear the NotePin or clip it almost anywhere — which is pretty much its whole appeal. | Image: Plaud

Kudos to Plaud for one thing: in a year otherwise marred by high-profile failures and oh so much AI vaporware, it made an AI gadget that does exactly what it claims to do and does it pretty well. The gadget is called the NotePin, and it’s a $169, pill-shaped voice recorder that can transcribe, summarize, and pull important information out of your audio. This is something current AI systems can actually do well! There’s good and mature tech at every step along the pipeline here, from tiny microphones to speech-to-text transcription to natural-language processing and AI summarization. The NotePin does it well.

But the reason the NotePin works is also the reason I wouldn’t recommend buying one. AI voice recording is great and handy and…

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