I had low expectations for the quite generic Comulytic Observe Professional, but it surely stunned me as not solely essentially the most helpful all-around notetaker on obtainable but additionally the most cost effective after you think about the price of a premium subscription.
The slim gadget, at 28 grams, is sufficiently small to slot in a pockets or connect unobtrusively with the included magnetic ring to the again of your handset (observe: it requires a particular USB dongle to cost). The 64 GB of space for storing and a 45-hour battery life aren’t huge, however each must be greater than sufficient to deal with a full week of interviews with out offloading or recharging, all processed by OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Google’s Gemini. The small LCD is useful (and uncommon on this market), indicating while you’re recording and providing a recording length. This makes it much more foolproof than different notetakers, which supply nothing greater than a coloured LED to inform you if it’s on.
The Observe Professional helps 113 languages—type of. It’ll document in a international tongue and provide a verbatim transcript within the native language, however insights and summaries are delivered in your language of alternative. It’s not a full resolution if you happen to want an entire, direct translation, however if you happen to simply want the gist of a international information story or speech, Comulytic can uniquely deal with it.
The proof is within the high quality of the abstracts and insights offered. Of all of the units I examined, Comulytic’s summaries had been essentially the most insightful and least rambling (although higher than its transcripts), successfully choosing out essentially the most related parts of interviews and pulling the very best quotes from my conversations (maybe too many at instances). It was additionally the one gadget to appropriately transcribe a punny product nickname talked about in passing in a single interview, indicating {that a} extra refined language mannequin could also be behind the scenes.
Comulytic isn’t good. It doesn’t transcribe in actual time, it’s one of many slowest merchandise at finishing analyses, and I by no means acquired its “quick switch” mode working, which meant all recordings needed to be despatched to my telephone through a pokey Bluetooth connection, however these are minor dings in opposition to an in any other case stable resolution. Better of all, for a restricted time, the corporate features a beneficiant three months of premium service at no cost. Even if you happen to don’t need to subscribe, the free plan, which affords three “deep dives” and 10 abstracts a month, is healthier than nothing.
Subscription prices $15 monthly or $120 per 12 months
