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Today, I’m excited to share that Vowel is officially launching out of private beta!
Since we launched in mid-2020, we’ve had thousands of people use Vowel while we were heads-down building the future of video calls.
Here’s all the amazing stuff we’re sharing with the world 🧵
Vowel AI is now available for everyone!
Ask and get answers with MeetingGPT • Automatically generated meeting summaries • AI suggested action items • Catch up summaries if you arrive late • Email recaps for when you’re OOO.
Get started for free 👉
Remote work unlocks huge financial savings:
- No more commutes means spending less on gas
- Fewer shopping trips for outfits means spending less on clothes
- Families downsizing to one car means spending less on transport
- Eating lunches at home means spending less to eat out
Hundreds of companies sign up for Vowel each month to power their collaborative remote work.
Here are our top predictions for what the future of remote work looks like:
The average remote team spends $75 per month ($896/year) per team member for a suite of basic SaaS tools to run better meetings.
Here’s how Vowel cuts that cost down by 80% to under $200:
Thanks to all of your support we won
@ProductHunt
's
#GoldenKittyAwards2020
Remote Work tool of the year! We're so humbled by all of your support! Can't wait to show you all the cool features we have in store for 2021!
The new clips experience is here! ✂️
Clip & share key pieces of meeting knowledge for faster, better workflows, e.g.
- Post a piece of feedback from a customer call to Slack
- Send a bug explanation to your dev team
- Save a slide from a strategy meeting for deep work
Just wanted to say a big thank you 🙏 to
@hnshah
for a successful
@ProductHunt
launch yesterday. 🚀
We really hope to hear any feedback you might have for us to improve Vowel from what it is today!🤩
We often get asked how Vowel is different than Zoom. The hang-up experience is probably one of the fastest ways to show how and where Vowel adds WAY more value.
We just built some of the coolest stuff I’ve seen at Vowel:
Generative AI- powered meeting summaries.
TLDRs automatically created at the end of your Vowel meetings that you can share with the whole team in 1-click. Here’s a quick demo on how it works:
🚨 Big launch from the team at Vowel 🚨
We’ve been heads down for 6 months building a whole new suite of tools to turn your meetings into instantly searchable, shareable knowledge.
Today we’re live on Product Hunt, introducing our new mobile app, universal search, and more👇
We're excited to announce Vowel's startup program partnership with
@remote
! is one easy solution to employ teams in any country legally & compliantly, with localized payroll, benefits & tax solutions.
Startup? Check us out here 👇
You do not need 500 new AI tools, you just need the best ones in each category.
The Vowel team evaluated hundreds of AI tools and put together this list of the top 15 AI tools for work across video, text, and image generation.
Save this list for future reference:
Thanks to
@userinterviews
for including Vowel in the UX Research Tools Map!
User interviews is one of our biggest use cases:
- Transcribe + record
- Bookmark key moments as they happen
- Clip + share insights
- Search through past interviews
See what
@merci
— tech founder, investor, and Slack’s former Head of Growth — has to say about in-person meetings and the evolving role of the Product Manager in this
#futureofwork
interview with
@tweetannamarie
Today at
@VowelHQ
we're excited to share improvements to our live transcription feature!
To introduce these updates is our Product Marketing Lead,
@erinletson
, with a demo of transcription working in real time💫
Our friends at
@doist
are right!
Remote work DOES NOT mean no meetings!
What it means is that all the same things happen as they would in person, but in a different sequence.
Here’s how we think about remote meeting
@vowelhq
:
Hey Vowel fans! Thank you all so much for the amazing level of support. Because of you Vowel was the
#1
Product of the Day on
@ProductHunt
for October 21, 2020
A sync communication is the backbone of remote work.
But so many newly remote teams don’t know how to get this type of communication right.
Here are 5 ways that Vowel helps you get better at async communication so your teams can have more time to focus, rest, and innovate 🧵:
- Ability to move to a less expensive city means spending less on rent
- Moving close to family means spending less on childcare
- Making coffee at home means less spending less on a daily Starbucks run
- Skipping the required happy hour means spending less on alcohol
So here's how we fixed it. With
@VowelHQ
:
- Anyone can record meetings
- You get unlimited cloud storage
- Instant recording processing w/transcription
- 1-click sharing
- Fully searchable content that's organized in the cloud
2/ You can only use cloud recording on a paid plan
And even with paid, you only get 1GB of storage on a Pro or Business plan. That’s roughly 2-5 hours of recorded video!
You get more storage with a free Gmail account
“Even the most loyal Zoom user would swoon over the features Vowel currently offers natively in the platform.”
Thanks to
@dudejohan
for writing about our AI-powered summaries (and more!) in
@Forbes
.
Happy Friday! Features we shipped this week 🚀
- Better performance for meeting "join" button
- Video remains on when screen-sharing (if enabled)
- Improved connection indicators (lets you know when your wifi connection is unstable)
- Share modal UX improvements 👇
Psst! Guess what? A limited number of invites are out!! 🤩 So make sure you check your inboxes and activate your accounts today! 🚀
Don't forget to send us any feedback that you might have for us! 🙏
Thanks again for being fans of Vowel, we really appreciate the support! 🙇♂️
1/ Weekly team meeting template
This weekly team meeting agenda comes from founder + CEO + author Herne Varnish (
@agilescaleup
). It’s the perfect way to check in with team members and evaluate long-term priorities.
As a recap, here’s what Vowel offers:
* Browser-based video calls
* Meeting management & Gcal plugin
* Real-time transcription in 9 languages
* Shared notes
* Unlimited recording storage
* Screen sharing & recording for async comms
* Search across meeting content
All in 1 tool
1/ Only hosts can record
Only hosts/co-hosts can start recording on Zoom, unless they give permission to others. And then they're the only ones who have access to the recording, unless they remember to share it.
If the creator of the meeting can't make it then LOL good luck
Today we announce one of our coolest AI features yet – Catch Me Up!
If you’re running late to a meeting, you can now:
• Show up late
• Press “Catch Me Up”
• Get an instant AI generated summary of what happened before you joined
3/ Zoom recordings take forever to process
For whatever reason, Zoom takes a few minutes to 1 hour+ to process the recording.
That means no instant sharing and you'll probably forget about it by the time it's ready to share
As much as you might want to get off Zoom or Meet, switching your team's video conferencing tool is no small feat.
Here are some of the most common questions we get from people who want to make the move to Vowel (but need more help persuading their team).
5/ Companies will build more diverse workforces
Remote work levels the playing field and makes it so that anyone can work for any role from anywhere.
Companies will not be limited to hiring from a limited candidate pool locally, and their teams will be more diverse as a result
7/ Companies will pay up for remote retreats
Instead of shelling out huge amounts of money for office leases, companies will spend those $ on frequent retreats throughout the year, where everyone meets up in person.
A whole category of startups will be built here.
Thrilled that
@vowelhq
was included in Zapier CEO
@wadefoster
's open letter on AI and Automation!
Lots of teams are already using Vowel with Zapier to automate all the tedious post-meeting work, saving them hours per week.
6/ Tech communities will be kickstarted around the globe
As tech goes remote, people in places other then SF and NY will bring their wealth with them and invest back into their local tech communities.
We expect to see many new tech communities blossom and grow
More invites have gone out today! 🎉 Have you gotten yours? Stay tuned to our social accounts, there might be a surprise in store for you! 🤩
As always, we appreciate all of you!
#collaboration
#videoconferencing
#wfh
#futureofwork
As a product manager, not only are you driving the product vision of the company but you’re in a lot of meetings. Like, A LOT.
A guide to using
@vowelhq
for leveling up your PM meetings, a thread 🧵
The
@HomeRoom_Club
team used to use Zoom for meetings. They switched to Vowel and save 5-6 hours of admin time a week (and $179/user/yr!)🎉
Top features:
✅Shared notes
✅ Instant recaps
✅ Bookmarks
✅ Transcript search
(thanks
@LifeWithArjay
!)
Vowel AI is best in class AI powered meeting software and starting today, it’s available to everyone.
No waitlists, no “limited previews”.
Sign up today and get started for free to experience the future of meetings:
Vowel + Desktop App = ❤️
Starting today, you can take all of your Vowel meetings in the desktop app instead of futzing around through your Chrome browser to find your meeting amongst 100 open tabs.
New from Vowel ✨
Share your Vowel meeting transcripts after every call automatically to your favorite apps, like
@Notion
, using
@Zapier
.
Here’s how it works:
Big news! We just released meeting dial-in and video downloads for Pro and Business plan users.
This means you can:
- Dial into Vowel meetings when you're on the go or have bad wifi 📱 (US & Canada)
- Download meeting recordings as MP4s and store them where you want ⬇️
4/ You can't search the content of your recordings
It's 2022 and you can only search your Zoom recordings by meeting name and you can't search the content (unless you pay for an enterprise account)!
C'mon Zoom
Vowel has partnered with
@Zendesk
and
@NotionHQ
to spill the tea about perfect pitches. We’re doing a live webinar on March 15th where Silicon Valley VCs tear down pitches live.
Hi Vowel fans 👋! Today might be your lucky day 🤩 We just finished sending out our largest number of invites ever 🚀 Keep your eyes peeled on your inboxes for your invite!
As always, thanks for being fans 🙏
#wfh
#futureofwork
#videoconferencing
#VirtualMeeting
Excited to share that we are launching MeetingGPT so you can get answers to any questions you have about your meetings simply by chatting with Vowel. AI-powered Q&A is finally here.
No more sifting through meeting recordings or transcripts.
Let me show you how it works:
Exciting news! Vowel has just launched our affiliate and referral programs! 🎉Earn commissions and unlock savings by referring your friends or audience to Vowel's AI-powered meeting and video platform. Sign up now and start earning!
Vowel is just $198/yr and includes all of the above features. That’s $698 in yearly savings per team member.
For a team of 30, that’s $21K that stays in the bank account every year, simply by consolidating your remote communication tech stack into Vowel.
Today, we're excited to share a new
@vowelhq
feature – meeting links! See all of the links that were shared during a meeting after it finishes.
Here’s how it works:
Hi Vowel fans! Remember when we said keep an eye out here for exciting news? 🤩 We have some invites to give out today! 🎉 DM us to get one.
We only ask one favour in return. Take a screenshot of you using Vowel and tag us and your friends! 👍
#wfh
#videoconferencing
Your team will thank you for switching to
@VowelHQ
so all of your meetings are automatically recorded, transcribed, and searchable.
Try us out for free today👇
@ESchwaa
@berman66
It's only available in the Vowel platform which comes with a whole suite of amazing features alongside summaries:
- Live transcriptions
- Collaborative notes and agendas
- Universal search
- Bookmarks, clips, reactions
It's time to ditch Zoom!
me: join meeting
zoom: waiting for host to join
me: wait! I am the host
zoom: yes, and we are waiting for you to join
me: but I joined
zoom: yes, but we are waiting for the host to join
me: but that's me!
zoom: then join already
me: I swear to god, zoom, I swear to god
3/ Workers will move closer to family
People will stop moving thousands of miles away from their hometowns just for jobs. Instead, they'll stay close to home, have family and child support, and not have to worry about sacrificing their careers to raise their own families.
1/ People will spend more time on their hobbies
Working from home means more time to spend on hobbies and other activities outside of the office.
Instead of spending 10+ hours per day on work (commute + in office), it’s now only 8 hours with time to have fun!
1/ Skip meetings you don't need to attend
You don’t have to be at every meeting. With Vowel, you can say no to more meetings where you could be working on something of higher value.
Every meeting is recorded, transcribed, and searchable so you safely skip + catch up later
With Vowel AI, the tedious parts of meetings are automated away.
No more:
• Designating a note taker on each call
• Sifting through meeting recordings for hours
• Remembering who was going to do what after a meeting
• Asking “what did I miss?”
• Stressing over being OOO
Our latest feature drop: Linkable Bookmarks! 🔖
Bookmarks (formerly known as Highlights) let you mark a key moment in a meeting as it happens, then quickly share or revisit it later.
Here's what's new 👇
4/ People will have more kids
And this means people will have more babies! With extra childcare support and living close to home, it'll be more cost affordable to raise kids with an entire support network.
And no commute means the daily routine is much easier.
It’s Friday — here are some fresh releases!
- Improved pagination for larger meetings, including keyboard shortcuts (use↔️arrow keys to navigate between multiple pages in a meeting)
- Improved “film strip” view of meeting participants when someone is screen-sharing 💻