Plaud’s Note AI Recorder Is an Amazing Device Let Down by Clunky Software

I love Plaud’s hardware, but it’s the transcription that breaks the device for me.

Courtesy of Ross Anderson
Plaud AI Recorder. Courtesy of Ross Anderson

Graydon Carter, one of the greatest editors alive and the genius behind the best years of Vanity Fair, now runs the online lifestyle magazine Air Mail. He is renowned for his taste, so it was noteworthy when, in a New York Times feature on his Air Mail pop-up shop, he mentioned the Plaud recorder. The writer of the feature didn’t care to mention it by name, but Carter gives a compelling pitch for it:

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