Anker’s New Ai Voice Recorder Is The Size Of A Coin

The coin-sized Work is designed to beryllium discreet but includes LEDs that bespeak erstwhile it’s recording. | Image: Anker

Anker is nan latest institution to denote an AI-powered sound recorder designed to transcribe, summarize, and item important moments from a speech aliases meeting. Its functionality is akin to what’s offered by devices for illustration nan Bee aliases Plaud NotePin, but nan Soundcore Work manages to further shrink nan hardware down to an moreover smaller coin-sized wearable.

Launching successful September pinch a wider world rollout expected later this year, nan Work measures conscionable 0.91 inches crossed — and while that’s little than nan diameter of a quarter, nan recorder is really a spot thicker than a coin. It’s priced astatine $99.99, which includes “basic services,” but Anker will besides beryllium offering a $15.99 per period subscription that includes further features not yet revealed.

The Work is designed to beryllium attached to a lanyard aliases worn connected your clothing utilizing a magnetic clip. Weighing conscionable 10 grams, it’s mini and lightweight but still manages up to 8 hours of artillery life, according to Anker. If that’s not enough, nan Work’s proprietary charger has a artillery of its ain that will support it powered for up to 32 hours.

Instead of capturing each relationship you person each time long, nan Work only starts signaling audio done its dual mics erstwhile tapped, while a double pat lets you people important parts of a speech that are highlighted later successful transcripts.

The recorder uses on-device GPT-4o to transcribe audio recordings successful much than 100 languages. Both nan transcripts and audio recordings are disposable successful nan Soundcore mobile app and tin beryllium searched aliases exported to different formats. Anker says recordings are encrypted and processed locally for privateness reasons but tin beryllium bounced done nan unreality if you desire to stock them pinch someone.