Vowel 1.0 — The easiest way to have productive meetings

Amazing! Vowel can really rise an efficiency of meetings on the next level, and by that - efficiency of daily activities! Big congratulations on the launch! ^__^ Can you tell me please is the time of recording limited? :))

Hey Product Hunt! 👋 In 2020, you made Vowel (beta) the #1 Product of the Day and #1 Product of the Week. In 2021, we won the Golden Kitty Award for Remote Work tool of the year. We couldn’t have done it without you! Many of you started using Vowel to host your video meetings, and provided valuable feedback on what it would take to switch from Zoom. We’ve taken that feedback and spent the last year building both the table-stakes features of a great video-conferencing platform and things no other video-conferencing tool can do on its own. This work has been driven by the goal to make meetings — especially brainstorm sessions, recurring meetings, and user interviews — more productive, while also ensuring these gatherings are accessible to async work styles and distributed teammates. Here’s what’s new in Vowel 1.0 to make your meetings more productive ✨ ✅ Collaborative agendas to power through your meeting prep. 🔄 Recurring meeting support to help you plan more effective meetings week after week. ⏲️ Agenda timers to stay on topic and prevent meetings that drag on. 🔈 Live transcription (now with more languages!) to capture knowledge so you can search it later. 🗒️ Lightning-fast shared notes to track ideas, action items, and decisions. 🗣️ Talk time tracking to encourage more inclusive meetings. 🪄 Post-meeting recaps to get everyone on the same page for next steps. ▶️ Instant recordings to help you confidently skip meetings and review them later. ✂️ Clip creation + organization to extract pieces of knowledge and organize them by project or study. plus… 🔒 Best-in-class security. Vowel is SOC2 compliant, which ensures strict information and security policies. 💻 We now support video meetings of up to 50 people. What’s next? Here's a sneak peek of other features coming soon: 🔗Integrations with your favorite productivity tools, so your meeting knowledge and action items can fit into your existing workflows. 🔖Linkable bookmarks that let you pinpoint and share exact meeting moments in context. 📱Dial-in functionality, so you can attend meetings on the go. 😆Custom emojis that let you bring your team’s inside jokes to meetings. Vowel is now in public beta, so anyone can sign up for free (use Chrome as your browser for the best experience). Paid plans are coming soon, but there will always be a free plan. 🆓 👉 Product Hunt offer: The first 200 people who sign up here will receive the Vowel Business plan free for the next six months. Send us your feedback and questions in the comments — we’d love to hear from you! Thank you, – Andy and Team V P.S. We also love a good tweet — send feedback or wish list items our way at VowelHQ.

Congrats on 1.0! Been a huge fan of Vowel these last few months. Quick question: will we eventually be able to glance at notes from previous meetings during a call if those meetings are part of a recurring series?

Looks pretty incredible! Congrats on the launch 👍 Is the video tech proprietary or did you build on top of something like Daily, Agora, etc.?

So much better to have all of these tools built straight into the video call. Definitely going to try this out.

Love the live transcription feature & the ability to generate clips from the recordings. Great work by @andrew_berman & the team. Look forward to using Vowel 1.0 with my team.

We've integrated Vowel with Cron and are impressed with the product. Congrats on the launch, @andrew_berman and team!

crtl+f any meeting is a brilliant value prop 👏. congrats on the launch @andrew_berman and Vowel team!

Just having notes alone would make this compelling over Zoom, but transcripts and agendas kills it for me!

Hey team. Congrats on the launch. Looking forward to the pricing. I'm interested in this product cos it avoids the platform risk of being dependent on Zoom or Meet. However, I'm wondering about the seamless cooperation of its features working together. I currently pay for a competitor that lets me make highlights that coincide with my notes. My notes become notated markers in my videos. It works cos I do alot of interviews. I just tried vowel and it appears that highlights are separate from notes. Lmk if I am missing the mark here. Great job. This is a hard problem to solve.

Exciting potential! Are notes/transcripts able to be restricted to only certain participants? My example use case = call w/ me, my client and a 3rd party vendor. I wouldn't want 3rd party to automatically have access. sad note though....will there be other sign-in options besides just Google? How long until you provide pricing or even a ballpark?

Hey @andrew_berman That's such a wise decision to come up with such a good product! how you can communicate with people about the topic while a person is speaking! keep up buddy!

Love the idea of agenda timers and that transcription is offered in other languages as well. For remote teams who operate in more than one language, can multiple languages be used for the transcription or would you have to choose one?

Many of you might wonder what is the benefit of using Vowel instead of Zoom. We prepared a guide for that: https://www.vowel.com/blog/vowel...

Vowel is an amazing product with a responsive team supporting it. We've been a beta customer for more than a year using it for quick daily team meetings but also longer meetings with both internal and with external audiences. It's been very reliable and easy to use. The Google Calendar and Slack integration make it quick and easy to integrate into our process for planned and ad hoc meetings. It's by far the best live meeting product to use if you wish to unlock the value of your meetings by recording them all. It makes the meeting recording and its transcript instantly available and fully searchable (literally no waiting). Meeting notes taken during or after the meeting are also time-coded to the moment in the meeting without any additional effort - this is brilliant. Those notes can be collaborative (like a built-in Google Doc) and you can choose to keep private notes as well, all within the meeting interface. Those notes and to-dos are then accessible without even re-watching the meeting but one can jump to that part of the meeting for greater context. The concept of sharing meetings in folders is quite unique. It allows you to offer broader access to the recordings which make such meetings easy to locate later and thus a valuable long-term resource for the broader organization. One thing missing, however, is the ability to have recurring meetings automatically shared to the same folder without any additional steps ... but that's only a small nuisance. I'm happy to see that the meeting limit is now 50 people but it would great if it could scale higher with additional users perhaps being limited to audio-only until they speak. This would allow Vowel to replace Zoom in our organization that has more than 50 employees. Overall a great product I can highly recommend.

Well shoot! Everytime I have an idea I see it come to life 2 years or so later. Welp guess I HAVE to use it now. Very excited that someone is actually upgrading video calls with legitimate features and not just dumb visual upgrades like better backdrops or emoji filters..

Congrats Andy & the team! Think it's been about a year since I first checked-out Vowel and can't even begin to calculate how much time it's save taking notes! Been fantastic since day-one. Excited to checkout some of these new features like agenda timers! 🙌🙌🙌

My team has been using Vowel for the past several months. It has replaced zoom for us. Huge fan. Congrats on the launch!

We’ve been using Vowel at our startup for over a year. The transcription feature is a lifesaver! After long brainstorms, I’ll often give a spoken synopsis. Then, teammates who are interested can just search the transcript for “in summary”. I go back and watch summaries myself because long weekends tend to reset my brain’s RAM.

The transcription feature seems awesome! This would be such a useful asset for any meeting, but can see it being particularly beneficial for interviews. Congrats on your launch!