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Vowel 2.0 — Turn your meetings into searchable, shareable knowledge
Vowel is a video conferencing tool that helps you 10x the value of your meetings. Meet, transcribe, record, clip, search, and share video meetings in one spot — no add-ons required! And take Vowel meetings from anywhere with our new mobile app (iOS & Android).
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I was very skeptical at first as there are lots of zoom plugins that claim to do similar things and switching from zoom within a company is really hard but it forces good meeting hygiene with the agenda right there. It's also really easy for someone that didn't make the meeting to come back and glance at the important parts. I would recommend it for cross team checkins, product planning, sales calls and onboarding calls vs zoom.
@kevingibbon Thanks Kevin! You're right, it is hard to get people to switch from zoom. But we've found that Vowel works cohesively to solve so many problems that Zoom doesn't solve that people are eager to switch to this "game changer" of a product. I literally never re-watched a zoom call when I was at companies that used it to meet & recorded meetings. But I revisit past Vowel meetings all the time (like time travel) to grab that one insight, that context on the decisions, or even just to brunch up on the key parts of an important meeting that I had to miss.
@kevingibbon @anna_marie_clifton Thanks so much for sharing! The Zoom/Meet plugin space is definitely crowded — but these add-ons can be hard to set up, clunky, and costly. Glad to hear Vowel is solving multiple pain points for you!
p.s. Were you using a Zoom plugin before Vowel? Would love to hear about that experience!
@kevingibbon I completely agree! A key goal of Vowel is helping teams have more effective and organized meetings. After all, people’s time is valuable. But that’s another key value of Vowel, as teams can get so much more value out of meetings by searching across their meetings to find important ideas and action items, as well as sharing clips and meetings (which is certainly more efficient than having the “same meeting again” just to relay ideas that were already discussed/ presented to a different set of participants).
Vowel is light years ahead of the competition. Google Meet quality deteriorated a lot for us team of 15 recently, and Zoom is pretty limited in its functionality. Vowel is one of the few folks innovating to make this part of remote teamwork 10x better. Highly recommend giving it a try!
@michaelsegal Thanks so much Michael!! You love to hear it! I'd love to hear what features your team is getting the most value from, what pains you used to have that you're not feeling anymore :)
@michaelsegal Thanks for sharing your experience — happy to hear Vowel is working for your team! We agree that Zoom and Meet leave a lot to be desired when it comes to meeting and collaborating.
It has been incredibly fun to watch this product grow. The features being thought through and created are an incredible improvement.
Fantastic tool to alleviate some of the massive pains of meetings - when meetings can't be avoided :)
@andrew_berman happy to give it a spin going forward to replace Zoom after hearing it from Cindy B.
I'm curious can it help me with a current issue: I'm doing tons of user research calls and I am poor at taking detailed notes while also driving the research call. I know Vowel can transcribe notes, but I want something that will dump me a summary of call with action items and the next steps we agreed to on the call. I can ofc go in and edit the insights and add in any ideas generated from the call.
However, this is my pain point: every 30-min call ends up requiring 30-mins of summarizing, cleaning notes, etc. Shave this from 30 to 10mins and you win me.
@andrew_berman @shivhpatel I hear this pain for sure! One thing I do it add Action items as I go with the `/action` command in the shared notes panel. That way, at the end of the day, I see everything in one place that I agreed to do.
Also, you can bookmark insightful moments with a simple key stroke as you're talking. Just press `B` and at the end of your call, you'll get links to all the moments you bookmarked. You can share those with others, or just use them as reference.
💡 Bonus tip: One thing I've always found to be challenging in user research is recalling exactly who said that one key quote that is all-of-a-sudden-super-important-to-share. With Vowel, you don't have to go back and rewatch a bunch of recordings to find that moment: you can do a quick search for any word or phrase spoken on ANY CALL you've been on, and jump right into the meeting. You can clip that insight and share with others (public to anyone with the link, or private to just your workspace members). This allows me to make so much more use of these calls after they are over.
AND If you have decided to prioritize something new, you can quickly search back for any time a user mentioned that feature on a call. Re-watch that little bit for the insight, or use that to find potential users to dive in deeper with.
Check it out and drop us a line with any feedback or questions!
@andrew_berman @shivhpatel Looking forward to hearing your feedback after you've taken Vowel for a spin! Research Calls / Meetings are a great use-case for Vowel, as you can take simple notes, add bookmarks, comments, highlights, and define action-items — all of these data points are associated with the specific points in time within the meeting/transcript when they were added, which provides valuable context and helps to identify the most relevant parts of the meeting so that you can easily find them later. And because everything within Vowel is searchable, you have the benefit of being able to search across all of your meetings and identify associations, topics, and threads that can help identify important patterns and trends for your research.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
Earlier this year, you made Vowel the #1 Product of the Day, making us an even stronger contender in the video conferencing space.
Today, we want to show you how Vowel has completely changed traditional video conferencing by turning your meetings into searchable, shareable knowledge.
In meetings, you're sharing ideas. You're getting people to agree. You’re giving feedback. You're making big decisions. But when the meeting is over, all of that just disappears. Why let all that knowledge go to waste? The fastest growing remote teams aren't — they're using Vowel.
With Vowel, not only can you host more engaging and focused meetings — you can have infinite recall of the insights and decisions that come out of those conversations, so they don’t get stuck in time.
Here’s what’s new to help you 10x the value of your meetings:
🔈Even faster live transcription + recording - Easily record, transcribe, and take shared notes in every meeting to build a library of company knowledge, instantly.
🔍 Universal search - Remember anything that happened, ever, with a universal search across your meeting transcripts, notes, and action items.
✂️ Clips - Trim, share, and save clips to provide timely context into technical issues, decisions, or customer insights.
🔖 Bookmarks - Mark and categorize important meeting moments as they happen, then quickly share or revisit them later.
↩️ One-click export - Integrate important knowledge across all your productivity tools.
🗒️ Recurring notes - Start right where you left off. Quickly reference past notes and action items in a current meeting, so nothing falls through the cracks.
📱 Mobile app (iOS and Android) - Attend Vowel meetings on the go, and easily join the discussion, transcribe, record, and see shared notes.
🔒 Best-in-class security - Vowel is now SOC2 Type II compliant, which ensures strict information and security policies.
What Vowel can unlock for remote teams:
✅ Remember anything that happened in a meeting
✅ Reduce meeting fatigue
✅ Get better at async communication
✅ Share and be more inclusive across time zones
✅ Build an awesome remote onboarding experience
✅ Cut down on the number of tools in your tech stack
Try Vowel for free
Zoom and other big video conferencing players require an upgrade if you want to try transcription or recording. Not Vowel! These features are included (even on our free plan). Sign up here
🎁 Product Hunt offer: The first 250 people who upgrade to a Vowel Business Monthly plan and use the code PRODUCTHUNT2022OCT will get 3 months for free.
We’d love to hear your thoughts, questions, and feedback in the comments.
Thanks so much for checking it out!
– Andy and The Vowel Team
P.S. We also love a good tweet — send feedback or wish list items our way at @VowelHQ.
@vowelhq @andrew_berman Does each member have it's own 120 mins? Or do they all share the same limits
Hi @nok_moe, each member can have meetings up to 50 minutes (on the free plan), up to 120 minutes (on the Pro plan), and up to 10 hours (on the Business Plan). This is the time limit for an individual meeting — there's no cap on how many meetings you can have! Let me know if that makes sense or check out https://www.vowel.com/pricing/
@vowelhq @andrew_berman congrats on the launch upvoted and fabulous work. check out ours as well and would love your feedback
Exciting to see conference calls becoming actionable, searchable, and shared snippets with the right conversation piece. Congratulations!
@cturlica Searchable, sharable knowledge! Calls don't have to be a bottomless pit of time. Now they can be energetic and forward-moving. I'm on Vowel several hours a day and not feeling any of the fatigue I used to feel with zoom. I'm always moving forward and never have to have the same meeting twice.
@cturlica @anna_marie_clifton Thanks for the feedback. This is just the beginning. Wait till you see what we have in store!
@alexcohenbirch Our mobile app released recently and many more exciting updates are coming!
Having used Vowel since the early days for all my open office hours, it never fails to be fun to introduce the platform to people. It is one of those great tech experiences where people get to see things happen in realtime (transcription, talk percentage, tagging) and then magnified after (the recording, being able to replay to the notes, clipping). Always glad to see another version.
@mattwallaert Thanks for all your support and feedback, Matt! We love having you as an early adopter and then some!
There are now a category of tools that have this functionality. What I really love about Vowel is how intuitive the user interface is compare to most of the alternatives. Great work on iterating the product to this spot! Looking forward to what's next.
Clay