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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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Andy Berman
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.
Anna Marie Clifton
@andrew_berman @kristof_szabo Thanks! Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback, Kristof!
Andy Berman
@vedranrasic Amazing! We love hearing customer feedback.
Bilal Yousaf
@andrew_berman I like the idea of live transcriptions. How many languages does this support? We’re releasing our product which will feature a very popular meme, hide the pain harold this Friday. Would be nice to get some upvotes from you too. I already told my team
Andy Berman
@bilalyousaf We support around 20 today with more coming soon!
Anna Marie Clifton
@andrew_berman @bilalyousaf Thanks! We'll check it out.
Lenny Leemann
What an awesome looking product! Love the idea of the Talk Time Metrics!
Andy Berman
@lenny_leemann Thanks! We've heard it's a game changer.
Anna Marie Clifton
@lenny_leemann Thanks, Lenny! I know I keep an eye on that in brainstorms and 1:1s... I have a tendency to dominate the conversation, so it's helpful to have that real-time feedback that helps me remember to make more space for others!
Andrew Kordampalos
@lenny_leemann and here is a small tip 💡 if you feel stressed about talk times during the meeting, you can always turn them off and see the final talk times at the end of the meeting.
Sharon Hurley Hall
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.
Andy Berman
@shurleyhall Thanks for the feedback Sharon. You're in the UK right? Did you change the language on the transcription to recognize your accent?
Sharon Hurley Hall
@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.
Ben
@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!
Anna Marie Clifton
@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.
Raphael Schaad
We've integrated Vowel with Cron and are impressed with the product. Congrats on the launch, @andrew_berman and team!
Andy Berman
@raphaelschaad AMAZING. Let us know any product feedback!!!
Andrew Kordampalos
This is awesome news @raphaelschaad!
Ramil Azucena
@andrew_berman @raphaelschaad we are huge fans of Cron! Thanks for the support
Michał
@raphaelschaad That's amazing. Now I have to try Cron, which looks very refreshing too!
Erik Kuebler
+1 from the Cron team! Fantastic product with a well-executed onboarding flow.
Chandrika Adikary
Congrats on launching!
Andy Berman
Anna Marie Clifton
@chandrika_adikary Thanks so much :)
Ramil Azucena
@chandrika_adikary Thanks! Feel free to check it out and let us know what you think.
Soso Sazesh
My team has been using Vowel for the past several months. It has replaced zoom for us. Huge fan. Congrats on the launch!
Andy Berman
@sososazesh Thanks for the support!
Anna Marie Clifton
@sososazesh You love to hear it! Thanks Soso!
Ramil Azucena
@sososazesh Amazing! Always looking to improve, so if you have any thoughts or feedback feel free to drop us a line.
edmund amoye
Hey team. Congrats on the launch. Looking forward to the pricing. I'm interested in this product cos it avoids the platform risk of being dependent on Zoom or Meet. However, I'm wondering about the seamless cooperation of its features working together. I currently pay for a competitor that lets me make highlights that coincide with my notes. My notes become notated markers in my videos. It works cos I do alot of interviews. I just tried vowel and it appears that highlights are separate from notes. Lmk if I am missing the mark here. Great job. This is a hard problem to solve.
Andy Berman
@edmundamoye We're aware of the issue. We're shipping improvements in our highlights + clips in the next month or so.
Anna Marie Clifton
@edmundamoye Thanks for the feedback, we just started an iteration on highlights that will make that feature more suited to your needs. Would you be interested in looking at a prototype? Email me (amc[at]vowel[dot]com) and I'll set you up with the product manager who is working on that feature!
Saba Zewdie B.
Love the idea of agenda timers and that transcription is offered in other languages as well. For remote teams who operate in more than one language, can multiple languages be used for the transcription or would you have to choose one?
Paul Fisher
@saba_b Thanks! You can set a default language for your team, but you can still override that setting and configure a different language for any given meeting. Please let us know if you have any questions!
Andy Berman
@saba_b Let us know what you think of the feature after you try it. We read all the feedback from our users.
Anna Marie Clifton
@saba_b Great question, Saba! You can set the language for EACH meeting to be different if you like. Just hop over to the transcript tab in meeting and select the language you want to transcribe in. But are you asking if you can transcribe in multiple languages within a single meeting? That's currently not possible, but I'd love to hear your use case if that's what you're looking for.
Al Khan
Love the live transcription feature & the ability to generate clips from the recordings. Great work by @andrew_berman & the team. Look forward to using Vowel 1.0 with my team.
Andy Berman
@alcaan Thanks!
Anna Marie Clifton
@andrew_berman @alcaan Thanks so much! My Intercom door is ALWAYS open. We also offer free group trainings for your team if you want a half hour for everyone to learn and ask questions together.
Süleyman Barman
Congrats on the launch 👍
Andy Berman
Paul Tepper Fisher
@suleymanbarman Thank you so much!
Ramil Azucena
@suleymanbarman Thank you! Feel free to check it out and let us know what you think.
Deepak Yadav
Again on PH!! This is a Wonderfull tool!! 🚀🚀
Andy Berman
@worklab Thanks!
Anna Marie Clifton
@worklab Thanks so much! Let me know if you have any feedback!!
Basharath
This product solves a nice problem. Great product. Congrats and all the best.
Andy Berman
@basharath Thanks!
Anna Marie Clifton
@basharath Thanks! would love to hear more about the problems you've encountered in your meetings. We're working on solving all of them!
Connor Jewiss
So much better to have all of these tools built straight into the video call. Definitely going to try this out.
Andy Berman
Anna Marie Clifton
@connorjewiss Thanks, Connor! That's the idea! We took a strategic approach of building the COMPLETE Meeting OS of the 21st century, vs a bunch of add ons that you tack together. It's a lot more work for us, but a lot less work for our users. Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Give it a whirl and drop us a line!
Smarth Sidana
Congrats for the launch! All the best :)
Andy Berman
Ramil Azucena
@smarth_sidana Thank you. Give it a try and let us know what you think!
Smarth Sidana
@ramil_azu Sure! We've also launched a new product today, would love to have your support for the launch! :)
Smarth Sidana
@paultepperfisher Glad! We've launched a new product today, would love to have your support for the launch! :)
Smarth Sidana
@andrew_berman Glad! We've launched a new product today, would love to have your support for the launch! :)
Theth Sam Aun
I think this good product Hunt.
Andy Berman
Ramil Azucena
@theth_sam_aun We agree! Thanks for the support
Simon Goetz
Congratulations! It has been incredible to watch the product grow. Super excited for the Vowel team.
Ben
@simonlgoetz Thanks for helping make it happen!
Anna Marie Clifton
@simonlgoetz Thanks so much, Simon!
Andy Berman
@simonlgoetz Thanks Simon!
Ramil Azucena
@simonlgoetz Thank you for the support leading up to the launch!
flo merian
Neat product, congrats on the launch ?makers!
Andy Berman
@fmerian Thanks!
Anna Marie Clifton
@fmerian Thank you! There's a so much neatness to make meetings more productive!
nickson durai
@andrew_berman Congrats on the launch!👍 Amazing product! 👌
Andy Berman
Anna Marie Clifton
@nickson_durai @andrew_berman Thanks! Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
Muskan Thakur
Hey @andrew_berman That's such a wise decision to come up with such a good product! how you can communicate with people about the topic while a person is speaking! keep up buddy!
Andy Berman