AI-Powered Earbuds Revolutionize Recording and Translation: Viaim RecDot Combines Audio and AI Technology

These AI powered earbuds pack a secret -- you can record and translate speech

My alter-ego is a 60's journalist called "Mary Mcbride." She wears a tan overcoat, a tatty pinstripe suit, and writes hard-hitting stories about the kind of people most journalists would avoid -- all with her trusty dictaphone, filled with interviews. Now, thanks to some very interesting-sounding AI-powered earbuds, I can get one step closer to becoming Mary. And with some very cool technology, the Viaim RecDot will even let me translate all my important interviews into a language I understand -- journalism won't know what's hit it. So the RecDot are earbuds, which means they can let you listen to your music, podcasts and audiobooks as you might expect. There's Hi-Res audio support thanks to little seen LHDC support, and there's up to 36 hours of battery life to keep you listening for longer. What sets them apart from the likes of the AirPods Pro 2 though is their ability to record meetings on a range of different platforms on your phone. They can then be stored and translated into 13 different languages. You can even do it in person -- place the buds back in their case, press a button, and they record with pickup up to 7 meters. Now that's cool. Once recorded and stored, the Viaim app can summarize your meeting (or that Pulitzer-winning interview), giving you a breakdown of what was said and what you're going to have to do after. I'm generally not entirely sure about AI in my earbuds, but this implementation sounds super interesting -- and it helps that they sound like solid ANC buds to go with it.

These AI-powered earbuds can also act as a dictaphone with transcription when left in their case

Fancy an AI feature that's actually useful in your everyday life? Then Viaim's RecDot earbuds could be the very thing. When you're out and about they're a perfectly normal set of hi-res wireless earbuds. But they have extra powers: they can automatically record, transcribe and translate meetings and other sound sources, generating meeting summaries and to-do action lists. You can also use them to record and transcribe phone calls. You don't necessarily need to wear them to use these features either. You can capture meetings on the buds' memory chip while they're in the case as well as in your ears, as long as you leave the case open and push the red dot on it to start recording (which goes a long way towards explaining the name RecDot), and the pickup range is a promised 7 meters. The RecDot are one of three pairs of buds unveiled by the company this week. There are two other models: the Nano+, a more compact model, and the Air, which use ear hooks rather than an in-ear design. All three come with the AI features. The Viaim RecDot are being marketed as a "smarter, more efficient office experience", but if the AI features are as good as claimed then these buds could be useful to a much wider group of people. Think students recording lectures; singers recording vocal harmonies; writers conducting interviews. I'm currently in the latter category (although I also sing): I use desktop recording software for phone interviews and a small wireless mic system for in-person conversations, feeding the recordings into an AI transcription app that's almost as accurate and considerably faster than me. The prospect of a single device I can use for all of that - and that I can also use to listen to pop music on the way to work - is very compelling. The Viaim RecDot come with 36 hours of battery, 48dB active noise reduction, an AI meeting assistant and a price tag of $249, currently discounted to $236.55 (so around £185 or AU$375, although availability and official pricing in these regions isn't yet known) for an introductory period. You can find out more at viaim.ai.