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Vowel 1.0 — The easiest way to have productive meetings
Make your meetings delightfully productive with video conferencing, live transcription, instant recordings, and collaborative agendas + notes — all in one place. With Vowel, there’s nothing to download and no need to cobble together different tools.
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My team has been using Vowel for the past several months. It has replaced zoom for us. Huge fan. Congrats on the launch!
@sososazesh Amazing! Always looking to improve, so if you have any thoughts or feedback feel free to drop us a line.
@fmerian Thank you! There's a so much neatness to make meetings more productive!
crtl+f any meeting is a brilliant value prop 👏. congrats on the launch @andrew_berman and Vowel team!
@samdebrule Thanks for the compliment! Would love to hear your feedback on the product!
@andrew_berman @samdebrule Thanks Sam! I am a huge fan of "ctrl + f" concept AND reality!
Just having notes alone would make this compelling over Zoom, but transcripts and agendas kills it for me!
@rhs Appreciate the positive feedback! There's definitely a synergy in combining notes, transcription, and agenda (as well as action-items, highlights, emojis, etc.) — when combined, meetings are more effective and productive. On top of that, team members can easily search on Vowel to find meetings they may have missed, or to review a particular discussion from several months back.
@rhs You love to hear it! We built it all into one, designed for productive (and delightful) meetings. Zoom is the Pets.com of meeting software, lets you do what you could do offline... (see and hear people), but not much else. We're building the Meeting OS of the 21st century... doing what is only possible in digital native meetings!
@milkers Thank you! Feel free to check it out and let us know what you think!
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.
Congrats Andrew Berman, Paul Fisher, and the entire team at Vowel on the launch! I know a lot of hard work went into making this the most comprehensive meeting platform right off the bat! Have loved using it and stoked to see what else you build and innovate!
@patzyang Thanks! Let us know any feedback/feature requests. We're trying hard to build an amazing product for our customers.
@patzyang Thank you so much for the kind words! Really proud of the team and excited to keep building and innovating!
@patzyang Thanks so much! I'm so proud of what the team has built already, and really stoked about what's on the roadmap!
@andrew_berman @ben8128 Thanks Ben! We love using it for our recurring PED meetings. So easy to look back at past meeting notes and action items, so quick to search for a decision we made but no one can quite remember, so great for a quick jam when one of our teammates can't make it, but can catch up later if needed.
Would love to hear your feedback!
Congratulations! It has been incredible to watch the product grow. Super excited for the Vowel team.
@ostirbu Thanks Oleg. Let us know what you think of the product. We want feedback!
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...
I tried out Vowel while it was in beta and it was awesome. (It's also one of the best at recognizing my accent and providing a clean transcript, so huge win there. ) I plan to use it for more of my meetings, and can't wait for all the new features coming.
@shurleyhall Thanks for the feedback Sharon. You're in the UK right? Did you change the language on the transcription to recognize your accent?
@andrew_berman I'm British and Caribbean, and mostly sound Trinidadian :) So Vowel really stands out as most transcription tools can't fully cope, but Vowel was pretty accurate.
@shurleyhall Thanks for the great feedback. With Vowel 1.0, we also launched further improvements to our transcription quality, and we continuously strive to make it even more accurate!
@andrew_berman @shurleyhall Oh, we recently added support for UK English, which could be even better! Go to your workspace settings to change your default transcription language (or you can change it in the Transcript tab of any individual meeting) and see how that goes.
Previously, we only supported US English, but we've added more languages and dialects.
I'd love to hear how this works for you.
@yitong_zhang Yeah, I've personally found it super helpful in learning to talk less 😂
@yitong_zhang Wait till you see the collaborative notes. There's no going back to a normal meeting!!!
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?
@clarkchambers Great questions Clark! Regarding the privacy question, if the 3rd party is not a member of your team, but they are a guest, you can restrict the access to your notes/transcription, and have them only participate in the call.
@paultfisher and @anna_marie_clifton know more about the rest.
@clarkchambers As Andrew mentioned, Vowel allows you to specify whether guest users have access to certain features (like Notes). We also support Private Notes, which allows you to keep your notes entirely private (and you can also have a meeting with both private and shared notes).
We have support for other sign-in options on our roadmap. So this will be coming in the near future. We will share details on pricing options for our paid plans soon!
@clarkchambers +1 to what Andrew and Paul said. We'll be announcing paid plans in Q2 this year!
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! 🙌🙌🙌
@jjmaclean Amazing! Can't wait to hear your thoughts on the new features. Let us know any feedback.
@jjmaclean You love to hear it! We'd love to hear from you sometime, feel free to drop us a line via intercom or email, we read everything!
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.
@andrew_berman @kristof_szabo Thanks! Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback, Kristof!
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.
@brooks_hassig Thank you for your support. We recently launched a new summary field, where you can type the meeting's summary when you are done, give it a try, and let us know your feedback.
@brooks_hassig Oh! I love this use case!! It's so great providing value like this! I also have been saved time and again by the transcriptions, a day or two after a brainstorm I can remember the 72 ideas we had, but I can't remember which one we landed on... so easy to do a quick search for the idea, and pop back into context when I forget.
@brooks_hassig thank you for the kind words! It's truly inspiring to hear how Flux is leveraging Vowel. Adding a spoken synopsis to the end of your meetings sounds like a really clever and effective strategy!
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?
@brianmwang Yes! We also want to give you the ability to watch a previous quick in-line in the future!
@brianmwang You're also currently able to browse through notes from previous recurring meetings on our Upcoming Meetings view — I use this all of the time to help create the agenda for the next meeting in a series. It's especially useful to be able to pull in action items and status updates from last week's meeting.
@brianmwang Love it!! We were talking about this very recently. The current plan is to bring in the most recent meeting's notes (below a dropdown) at the bottom. I'd love to hear if you're interested in more or if the most recent would suffice. We're looking to strike a balance of "Useful, and not cluttered"
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