Vowel (Beta) - A video conferencing tool that makes meetings better.

Hey Product Hunt! 👋 Andy here, Founder/Maker of Vowel. We are super excited to launch Vowel here on Product Hunt. In 2016, I launched Nanit here as well and could not have succeeded without the maker community’s support 🙌 Today, our team is extremely proud to see Vowel come to life. Meetings are where the important stuff happens. They’re the gold standard for decision making and brainstorming. But our everyday, garden variety meeting is a mess. It’s disorganized. It’s expensive. And time seems to do some weird things when we’re in there. It doesn’t help that we’re using video calling tools that aren’t really meeting tools. Sure, they let us see and hear each other. But a meeting should be so much more than video calling. It should be working together and building partnerships and staying focused. That’s why we built Vowel. A video conferencing platform designed to make our meetings better 🚀 So what exactly can Vowel do?🤔🧠⚡️ Vowel makes meetings more productive: Vowel automatically records and transcribes your meeting in real-time. So your attendees can participate in the discussion instead of tirelessly taking notes. Vowel creates space for collaboration: With a shared workspace on screen, Vowel enables you to create an interactive agenda, assign concrete follow-ups, and mark important notes during the conversation, which are time-stamped to be referenced later on. Vowel turns action items into simple, easy tasks: When you create action items during your meeting, Vowel automatically links the item back to a shareable and searchable record of the meeting—so you never have to guess what was said in reference to your task. Vowel integrates and simplifies your screen: Vowel lives in-browser, so it eliminates the need for downloading software. No need to run multiple tools or plug-ins concurrently in different windows, and no need for your guests to download anything. You can start a meeting from Slack or your Google Calendar and, afterward, receive meeting summaries via email. 👉Here are the details: Today, we are opening Vowel sign-ups exclusively to new users from the Product Hunt community. Vowel offers a free plan for individuals and teams, but the first 250 who sign up here will receive the Vowel Premium plan for the next three months. Vowel is available today for Chrome and we’ve got additional browser compatibility coming shortly. We’re excited to hear your feedback 🙌 -- Andy and Team Vowel P.S. Keep up to date and tell us what you think on Twitter @VowelHQ P.P.S. So excited to be Product of the Day! We'll be responding to all the emails shortly. Can't wait to hear everyone's feedback.

When I first experienced Vowel, I felt like this is exactly what Google Workspace's (aka G Suite) video meeting experience should be like. A contextual experience that combines video, audio and text to actually make meetings more productive. Really worth trying out for yourself.

That's an awesome tool you've built! I have a question about transcription - is this the English-only option or are there other languages also available?

Awesome. I love the idea of searching the meetings by transcript and then listening to the audio for that part.

Vowel is really, really cool! The live transcribe is next-level, it's like everyone at the meeting has a personal note-taker. For sales, or pitch calls, I love that you can quickly reference what went well or didn't go well -- to adjust your approach, but also easily share those learnings with others. It's also a great way to build a living knowledge base within the company for employees–especially as teams continue to be remote-first.

@hnshah another great find! Love seeing your hunts! I'm not an investor, just a fan. Crazy enough that it's 2020 and video meetings are still.....meh. 1. Love the simplicity of Vowel 2. No Fluff - It does a great job actually giving you the 20% of features a team needs that does 80% of what's needed. 3. Spot on for live collaboration. Great work @ckor @michal @ben42

Cannot wait to try it out!

My creative team has been using Vowel for weeks, and it’s made our meetings and reviews so much better. Instead of furiously taking notes, we can all be fully present and engaged in our brainstorms, and that’s being reflected in the quality of our work!

Vowel is amazing. I've been using it with the team for the past 3 weeks. Love the ability to be in-sync on our meetings. Also, amazing product design!

Congrats to @andrew_berman and team! I've been using Vowel for the last few months and am in love. Being able to search what was said during meetings and listen back in on that ONE GREAT IDEA THAT I JUST COULDN'T REMEMBER has been a total game changer. Because I trust Vowel to capture everything important, I can fully engage during meetings and am far less concerned about scribbling down every last detail in notes. Of all the apps that aim to make me "superhuman", I feel like this one actually does.