Recording minutes of meetings needs to be bullet proof to be reliable, as loosing hours worth of recording can be a disaster currentlly as wifi often drops in my experience. Recordings should first record to internal memory in case connection to mobile or wifi drops. . Summaries, Transcripts and recording should be able to be recalled directly from the R1.
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like this one! any update on this? summary length would be great to have option after the meeting to be selected- @simon thanks for the supprt
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Definitely agree.
Here’s the plan - we will ship a local photo album first on r1 which will show your magic camera images on device.
This will actually be the second feature that works locally, after alarms/reminders/timers.
Between these two, we’ll have a much better foundation for local functionality, and can then look into having the meeting assistant cache locally.
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Really Exciting!
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I definitely think finally getting local storage for recording is a huge step. I remember seeing talks of that for a long time, so its good to see it in the works. Beyond that though, has there been any discussions on tweaking the summaries perhaps then too?
Having local storage is a huge milestone, but compared to other summarization tools/services, hard to pick what the r1 churns out over others regardless. I’d love to be able to reach for the r1 for actually meeting summaries for work, but they’re just too short/vague. Maybe even being able to prompt the summaries for specific meeting notes and styles 
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Haven’t heard anything about that recently but I’ll bring it up.
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Was just curious! I know the team has been focusing on everything else, so not surprised.
Sadly, the summarization feature still feels quite a few steps behind. I use other AI recording tools for work meetings, and there’s varying degrees of features and detail amongst services and devices, but then with the r1 it’s usually nothing more than ‘X was discussed’ and ‘questions arose about Y’. Hard to use something like that, feels like showing up to play in the new york philharmonic with a kazoo 
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Can you give me an example of a tool that does a better summary so I can better understand what you’re looking for and we can run an A/B test? It’s possible our existing stack is already capable of more, but some examples to work with would be very illustrative.
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Sure. So for me personally, Fireflies and Plaud handle meeting notes pretty well. With both, you can customize what sort of summarization you’re looking so it outputs a certain way, or even prompt the AI for specifics after the fact to fine tune what sort of output you’re looking for.
I would say for both of those, having summaries broken down into sections with clear details and action items is pretty helpful. A pretty standard summary for both tools I use would generally include:
Meeting info: Time, date, how many speakers, keywords, etc.
Summary overview - brief description of what the overall meeting was about, and any highlights
Specific topics covered, and details concerning each topic - This is the meat of the summary, where they tend to be broken up into specific sections, with details for each of the topics discussed
Action items - A list or bullet list of next steps covered
I know the r1 summarization isn’t meant to be as robust as a full service that only does transcription and summaries, but right now hard to pick it over what others do. Even just a little more coherency and detail would do wonders.
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This is great feedback, thank you. I have fed it back to Jesse and our product team.
I think there is an opportunity here, given that devices like Plaud Pin retail for a similar price as r1 but only offer this one feature.
Let’s see what we can do.
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Oh absolutely. I’m on the beta group for Plaud so I got my pin for free, but people are extremely happy with it, and it does a great job, so nobody cares about the pricing, even if it is just a single thing.
I think if r1 did even remotely close concerning summarization for the same price, along with the million of other things it can do, that would be a huge draw. People love their meeting notes, but plaud is one of the few physical AI tools that does it well IMO, so that’s what everyone gets.
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