Travis Bogard

Carbon Voice - Record your voice. Share a link. Skip the meeting.

The fastest way to record a voice message and get a shareable link (transcript included). Send it anywhere you'd send a meeting invite. Recipients can read or listen and reply to start an async voice conversation. Reduces meeting time by up to 60%!

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Travis Bogard
Hi Voice Lovers and Meeting Haters 👋 The future of work isn't about where work happens, it's about when. And the answer, increasingly, is async. I saw this firsthand managing a team across 14 timezones. Important conversations kept getting delayed. There was simply no time left to talk through what actually needed discussing. Email, document comments, chat threads. They all broke down the moment the conversation needed to be a real conversation. Calendars filled up. The speed of the organization became the speed of scheduling. A calendar link should be the reward for a good conversation, not the starting point. That's why we built Carbon Voice. Our mobile app has helped teams reduce meetings by 60%. Execs connecting directly to subject matter experts without pulling everyone into meetings. Coaches and Advisors serving more clients with async check-ins between sessions. Field sales teams staying in sync while on the go. But there was a gap. When people sat down at their desks, the old habits crept back. The cursor would go to the chat window, fingers would start typing, and before long someone was sending a calendar link when they needed to talk. No one wants a meeting, but the calendar link is the habit and default. So we built Carbon Voice for the Mac The desktop experience started as a way to bridge the gap between the desk workers and those out on-the-go. What we quickly found was the desktop experience offered a new level of speed for sharing ideas. It started to feel as easy as leaning over to a colleague sitting next to you to talk, but async so less disruptive. Instant access through global keyboard shortcuts means you can go from idea to shared idea faster than you could even open a calendar to create a meeting. Press Option+V on your Mac. Talk. Get a shareable link. Send it anywhere you'd send a meeting invite. Clip a screenshot, drop in an attachment, add context. Recipients listen, read a transcript, and reply on their own time. That's an async voice conversation. It’s momentum without friction. If you know Loom, the concept is familiar, but this is voice-first. No camera or prep for video. Just talk. It's not a one-way broadcast with comments. It's a two-way conversation, like a phone call that doesn't require you both to be free at the same time. Your async conversations are automatically transcribed and summarized at the touch of a button. Get all the meeting notetaker functionality without the meeting. All your conversations and voice memos are organized and accessible across mobile, web, and desktop. Invite your team and keep the dialogue going wherever you are. And for those who want to go deeper, all your messages are accessible via MCP, API, and a rich set of integrations. Carbon Voice isn't just a communication tool, it's a voice layer in your workflow. Meetings will come if they are actually needed. Until then, just talk. Have questions? Ask below and I’ll answer them. Or you can talk with me at https://cv.chat/demo - Travis
Nick Holzherr

I’m a big fan of Carbon Voice - use it daily and recommend it to people regularly.

Super fast and smooth to do async voice chat. Also used WhatsApp for this - but Carbons voice first deliberate design makes it just much better. Lots of small details that end up mattering.

Recently hooked it up to Claude Code and use it to chat to Claude now too.

Travis Bogard

@nickholzherr Thanks Nick. The feedback has been great.

I've been surprised at how much the desktop experience has totally expanded how even I use the product.

Srini Venkataramani

I tried Carbon Voice and found it a refreshing way to overcome the years-long habit of typing everything to finally start leaning into voice. Super helpful to take notes while in the flow - even works with multi-lingual speech. I know I am only scratching the surface of how transformational it can be to my workflows.

Travis Bogard

@srini_venkataramani1 I've obviously been a convert for a while and leaning over to voice has been tightly integrated into my workflow. Even I have been surprised at how much more the desktop quick keys (option + V & Option + C) have changed my workflow to use voice even more.

Have a quick idea? Option + V. Someone sends and email that requires a lengthly response. Option + V.
Want to share something with team already in Carbon Voice Option + C.

It's so instant, it just moved conversations forward faster.

Tarun Malik

Love carbon voice - it’s my go to dictation tool on Mac. Awesome job team ! 👏👏

Travis Bogard

@tmalik25 Thanks Tarun. Yeah, the transcript is an awesome by-product for those doing dictation. We hear people often use that as a quick way to get transcripts for voice messages. Especially useful with the ability to do AI transformations on those transcripts.

What we typically see in evolution is people start grabbing transcripts to share and then evolve into sharing the voice in the first place so the recipient can choose to listen or read.