Vowel is a video conferencing tool that actually makes meetings better. Plan, host, transcribe, search and share your meetings all in one browser window.
Vowel is great for brainstorms, UX research, daily standups, planning meetings and other use cases.
Can you share any more info about pricing with free vs. premium plans? I'd love to give it a try as it looks fantastic, but don't want to get my time used to some cool new tool I can't afford to continue to use. ;)
Hi @matthew_slotkin Is the following page describing the pricing model? https://origin.vowel.com/pricing/ How does it work with external guest to the meeting? How is what they say recorded? Or are the transcription limits only impacted on the account of the user who actually opened the meeting?
Congrats to @andrew_berman and team! I've been using Vowel for the last few months and am in love. Being able to search what was said during meetings and listen back in on that ONE GREAT IDEA THAT I JUST COULDN'T REMEMBER has been a total game changer. Because I trust Vowel to capture everything important, I can fully engage during meetings and am far less concerned about scribbling down every last detail in notes. Of all the apps that aim to make me "superhuman", I feel like this one actually does.
We've been using Vowel with our creative team for the past few months, we love it. The live transcribe is super handy. Everything is simple and well thought, it trul1 feels like it's actually made for 2020 remote teams. Such a needed upgrade from all the other meeting tools.
Have been using the beta for a few months now and it's the only video conferencing experience I look forward to using. Beyond the seamless notetaking and transcription, I love being able to use the platform as a task manager and also track progress of 1:1s with the team. Having a history of all of my meetings, with all of the notes and tasks associated, is awesome for being able to search for ideas in previous meetings but also makes me oddly feel more accomplished (like those meetings actually existed vs. being transactional/ephemeral). Vowel feels like if Zoom (vidconf) + Otter (transcription) + Dropbox (storage) + Evernote (notetaking) + Trello (task management) had a bady and was delightfully designed!
Hi @Andy Berman, I love the ideas presented on your site. Finally someone thinks what meetings really need.
What we are looking for are smalltalks, or simply „sub-group” chats during a meeting. We have tried everything but there is no way to throw a meeting (or party) which would enable cross-talks and smalltalks for smaller groups of people (in „rooms”) – to talk or socialize during a main event (which can be sometimes not relevant to all). Is there any option like that in Vowel?
@hnshah another great find! Love seeing your hunts!
I'm not an investor, just a fan.
Crazy enough that it's 2020 and video meetings are still.....meh.
1. Love the simplicity of Vowel
2. No Fluff - It does a great job actually giving you the 20% of features a team needs that does 80% of what's needed.
3. Spot on for live collaboration.
Great work @ckor@michal@ben42
Obsessed with Vowel -- have been following @andrew_berman, @matthew_slotkin, @paultfisher and team for much of their journey and after getting a feel for the product myself, I can't wait to bring this to our team. We're at that stage as a company where meetings seem to be scaling as a geometric function of headcount, and the variance in how helpful they are is fascinating -- not because the team isn't prepared or focused, but because it takes a ton of work to plan, structure and capture meaningful results and they have actual work to do / not infinite time for meta-work!
Vowel is going to cut out 90% of that extra work. Set a clear agenda + goals, invite the right people and actually get things done :)
It's a no-brainer upgrade from Google Meet or Zoom. Just the ability to search and share key points in a meeting is worth it. Vowel transformed our process for case studies and customer discovery calls.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
Andy here, Founder/Maker of Vowel. We are super excited to launch Vowel here on Product Hunt. In 2016, I launched Nanit here as well and could not have succeeded without the maker community’s support 🙌
Today, our team is extremely proud to see Vowel come to life.
Meetings are where the important stuff happens. They’re the gold standard for decision making and brainstorming. But our everyday, garden variety meeting is a mess. It’s disorganized. It’s expensive. And time seems to do some weird things when we’re in there.
It doesn’t help that we’re using video calling tools that aren’t really meeting tools. Sure, they let us see and hear each other. But a meeting should be so much more than video calling. It should be working together and building partnerships and staying focused.
That’s why we built Vowel. A video conferencing platform designed to make our meetings better 🚀
So what exactly can Vowel do?🤔🧠⚡️
Vowel makes meetings more productive: Vowel automatically records and transcribes your meeting in real-time. So your attendees can participate in the discussion instead of tirelessly taking notes.
Vowel creates space for collaboration: With a shared workspace on screen, Vowel enables you to create an interactive agenda, assign concrete follow-ups, and mark important notes during the conversation, which are time-stamped to be referenced later on.
Vowel turns action items into simple, easy tasks: When you create action items during your meeting, Vowel automatically links the item back to a shareable and searchable record of the meeting—so you never have to guess what was said in reference to your task.
Vowel integrates and simplifies your screen: Vowel lives in-browser, so it eliminates the need for downloading software. No need to run multiple tools or plug-ins concurrently in different windows, and no need for your guests to download anything. You can start a meeting from Slack or your Google Calendar and, afterward, receive meeting summaries via email.
👉Here are the details:
Today, we are opening Vowel sign-ups exclusively to new users from the Product Hunt community. Vowel offers a free plan for individuals and teams, but the first 250 who sign up here will receive the Vowel Premium plan for the next three months.
Vowel is available today for Chrome and we’ve got additional browser compatibility coming shortly.
We’re excited to hear your feedback 🙌
-- Andy and Team Vowel
P.S. Keep up to date and tell us what you think on Twitter @VowelHQ
P.P.S. So excited to be Product of the Day! We'll be responding to all the emails shortly. Can't wait to hear everyone's feedback.
Awesome. Now everyone in a meeting can focus on the meeting rather than transcribing notes and try to remember/capture all the ideas or topics discussed. The search functionality and tagging features are great. Cant wait to use for my company.
When I first experienced Vowel, I felt like this is exactly what Google Workspace's (aka G Suite) video meeting experience should be like. A contextual experience that combines video, audio and text to actually make meetings more productive. Really worth trying out for yourself.
@hnshah Very much appreciate the kind words and very glad you like the app! We will continue to work hard to provide the most compelling and productive meeting tool. Lots of new and exciting features to come.
@hnshah Thanks for the support and the hunt 🙌 What you wrote captures our vision, a meeting OS designed to make meetings more productive, efficient and valuable. Can't wait to hear more product feedback!
@hnshah Thanks, Hiten! I really appreciate the feedback and all your support. It's so rewarding to get Vowel out into the world and to see how it's improving productivity and collaboration. I can't stress enough how much it means to the team to hear your thoughts on Vowel. Thanks again!