Vowel 1.0 - The easiest way to have productive meetings

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.

@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

What an awesome looking product! Love the idea of the Talk Time Metrics!

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.

We've integrated Vowel with Cron and are impressed with the product. Congrats on the launch, @andrew_berman and team!

Congrats on launching!

My team has been using Vowel for the past several months. It has replaced zoom for us. Huge fan. Congrats on the launch!

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.

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?

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.