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ChatGPT-Powered Audio Dock Can Record, Transcribe, and Summarize Your Calls, Saving Hours of Work

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Think of the HiDock H1 as your AI assistant on steroids. Designed as a pretty slick-looking multiport dock for your PC or Mac, the HiDock H1 does more than simply give your machine extra ports. It works as an all-capable AI-enabled audio dock for your internet calls, meetings, and memos. HiDock H1 works with both your desktop/laptop as well as your phone, functioning across websites/apps like Skype, Google Meet, FaceTime, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and even WhatsApp and YouTube. It records audio, transcribes it for you, and can even generate summaries like to-do lists, outlines, etc… A slider activates the HiDock H1’s two-way noise canceling algorithm for crystal-clear audio and video calls on both sides, and if all that wasn’t enough, the HiDock H1 even lets you fast-charge your laptop and phone at 100W and 18W respectively.

Designer: Linna Peng

Click Here to Buy Now: $149 $299 ($150 off). Hurry, 59/170 left!

While most people fear the prospect of AI taking our jobs, the actual reality is that AI is capable of making us better at our jobs. By handling mundane tasks, AI can free us up to actually do what we’re good at. AI isn’t replacing us soon… it’s empowering us, and the HiDock H1 is proof of that fact. While outwardly the HiDock H1 appears to be a multiport dock for your PC, it packs a few extra features that take the elbow grease out of your meetings and group calls. A control panel on the front of the HiDock H1 allows you to answer/end calls, mute or unmute yourself, or record your call directly with just one press of a button. A volume knob lets you control the HiDock H1’s output level (it has its own speaker unit), and a slider button activates the dock’s Bidirectional Noise Canceling feature, allowing you to choose how powerful the BNC is… but HiNotes, HiDock H1’s app, is where its secret sauce lies.

Transcribe with State-of-the-art AI Engine – Unlock lightning-fast and precise transcription with HiNotes, supporting 57 languages and long recordings.

Real-time VoiceMark with One Press – Make a VoiceMark to highlight anything that matters to you during recordings and HiNotes will intelligently analyze the content before and after the marker during the transcription.

Organized Summary by ChatGPT – Whether it’s a Zoom or Teams meeting or a casual call via Facetime or WhatsApp, HiNotes intelligently summarizes them into well-structured notes.

The app lets you record conversations not just on your laptop, but even the ones on your phone. Bluetooth 5.2 allows the HiDock H1’s control panel to work with both your laptop as well as your phone, letting you record calls directly to the app. The HiNotes web app runs ChatGPT’s API to supercharge these recordings, letting you transcribe them in as many as 57 languages; and then perform additional actions like summarizing them, turning them into memos, or letting choose from a variety of preset templates for phone calls, online lectures, and meetings. Additionally, you can even add ‘voice marks’ during recordings that get highlighted within the HiNotes app, enhancing your ability to locate key information in lengthy recordings, sort of like bookmarks in a book.

While the app may be HiDock H1’s most impressive (and attractive) feature, it doesn’t take away from how darned impressive the dock’s hardware actually is. On the front of the dock is a high-fidelity speaker unit with a 5W tweeter, 7W full-band driver, and a passive radiator delivering crisp, balanced audio that’s as good for calls as it is for music and movies. The control panel right beside it is purely physical (no touchscreen elements) and has a tactile knob for volume control. On the side is a contact-point system for a snap-on wireless headset module that lets you switch to headset-mode for private calls or while on the move. The module contains its own single earpiece that pairs with the HiDock H1, reminiscent of the early 2000s with every businessperson wearing a Jabra Bluetooth earpiece!

Flip the HiDock H1 over and you’ve got as many as 11 different ports that help supercharge your laptop. Two 4K@60Hz HDMI ports let you hook dual external displays to your laptop, while an ethernet port gives you a 2.5Gbps wired connection. An SD and a MicroSD card slot lets you, well, connect memory cards, making it perfect for photographers. Finally, two USB-A ports help hook thumb drives, while three USB-C ports enable both power and data delivery. The HiDock H1 can output up to 118W of power, making it a perfect pass-through charging solution for your laptop and a fast-charger for your smartphone.

The hardware works right out of the box, in tandem with all popular meeting software and services (a pretty impressive feat for its introductory $149 price tag on launch), while the app runs on ChatGPT’s API to provide its AI features. Given that circumstance, the app runs on a subscription model, with 1,000 minutes of recording/transcription for $9.9 a month, or 12,000 minutes for $49 yearly. Your calls get recorded only when you press the HiDock H1 button on the device, and recordings are stored locally, protected by end-to-end 256-bit encryption. Since HiDock H1 uses OpenAI’s APIs, it’s kept private and isn’t used to train any AI model, ensuring your conversations don’t ever make it to the cloud or to ChatGPT’s database servers (in line with OpenAI’s privacy statement).

Given its capabilities, there’s quite literally nothing the HiDock H1 can’t do. It works as a multiport dock, a hi-fi speaker, a control panel for video calls/meetings, and an AI-powered assistant that helps extract every bit of noteworthy information from your online interactions. Ultimately, it frees up clutter on your desk by being a powerful, compact multiport solution, ensures high-quality calls with its Bidirectional Noise Cancelation, and frees up hours of work each day by recording, transcribing, and formatting information from your day-to-day meetings for you. Now that’s an AI-enabled future I don’t mind settling for!

Click Here to Buy Now: $149 $299 ($150 off). Hurry, 59/170 left!

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The Microsoft Teams Speaker is a smaller, sleeker, wireless version of the company’s Audio Dock

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Designed without all the multiport capabilities of the Microsoft Audio Dock which debuted just last month, the Teams Speaker distills its predecessor down to its basic function – being a purpose-built smart speaker for music, calls, and collaboration. With dedicated buttons to help you navigate your Microsoft Teams interface (or even other VoIP services like Skype, Google Meet, Zoom, or FaceTime), the Teams Speaker is a handy accessory to have on your workspace tabletop!

Designer: Microsoft

The Teams Speaker comes with the same design format as the Audio Dock but sits flatter against the tabletop surface without any of those multiports like its larger sibling. Sure, the Audio Dock achieved quite a bit with its ability to let you connect peripherals, hook displays, and even charge other devices, but it was first and foremost a speaker (at least visually). The Teams Speaker tries to stick to that persona with a flatter design that works both wirelessly or wired.

Buttons located on the top of the speaker make it easy to answer or decline calls, open applications, increase/decrease volume, and even periodically mute your mic with a hardware button so you’re never figuring out whether you’re on mute or not, or how to unmute yourself.

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The Microsoft Audio Dock gives you a versatile smart speakerphone that manages audio for Teams calls

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“Add connections, reduce cord clutter, and upgrade your audio for meetings, music, and more.”

The Microsoft Audio Dock, announced alongside several Surface hardware releases, hopes to be the smartest most convenient speaker on your workplace tabletop. Styled to look somewhat like a cross between the Google Nest Audio and Apple’s HomePod, the Microsoft Audio Dock empowers and declutters, putting all your audio needs and requirements into one easy-to-use solution, so you’re never going “can you hear me now?” while on calls again.

The Audio Dock aims at achieving quite a few things simultaneously. It sits beside your laptop/desktop, being the primary audio device for your computer, and even acts as a multiport hub, letting you connect USB drives, hard drives, and external monitors to your main machine through it. The Audio Dock’s internal Omnisonic® speakers deliver exceptionally balanced sound, while specially-tuned voice capture microphones help you conduct calls with absolute clarity. Finally, a simple interface on the top lets you increase/decrease volume, play/pause music, launch Microsoft Teams, and activate/mute your microphone while on calls across a variety of audio/video conferencing apps.

Designer: Microsoft

The Audio Dock comes with an abundance of ports to add to your machine’s functionality. An HDMI port allows you to hook external displays, two USB-C ports let you power/charge other devices and peripherals, while a USB-A port lets you hook external storage like a hard drive or USB drive for storing/accessing work files. The Microsoft Audio Dock plugs into your laptop via USB-C and can even supply power to your device through pass-through charging, eliminating the need for an additional charging cable to add to your tabletop woes.

As a speaker itself, the Audio Dock is a rather capable little cookie too. Built-in Omnisonic® speakers deliver multi-dimensional, room-filling sound and deep bass for music and meetings, thanks to a 15W woofer and 5W tweeters that provide a comfortably vast frequency range for great audio. The buttons on top integrate into your workflow and are compatible with a wide range of apps (with a dedicated Microsoft Teams button), letting you listen to music and attend meetings in a way that feels much more intuitive. The microphone mute button has a built-in backlight that lets you know if your mic is active or if you’re on mute, giving you absolute foolproof control over your meeting, while the dual mics inside the Audio Dock capture your voice with clarity so you’re never scrounging for headphones or left helpless when your AirPods run out of charge in the middle of a video call.

Pricing and availability details for the Microsoft Audio Dock are still forthcoming, and this piece will be updated once the information becomes available.

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Jarre Aeroskull speaker dock packs dual 15-watt woofers, recently departed Apple Dock Connector

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Jarre Aeroskull speaker dock packs dual 15watt woofers, recently departed Apple Dock Connector

Just in time for Halloween, Jarre's new Aeroskull dock embodies 70 watts of total power in a human-like cranium, complete with a pair of speaker-packing shades. Jarre is showing off the colorful chrome tune machine in black, white, blue, green, orange, pink, purple and yellow finishes, with a matching IR bone remote to boot. With a tinted lens appearance, the permanently affixed sunglasses actually contain two 15-watt speakers, with a 40-watt subwoofer occupying the skull's rear. The lofty £349 (about $565) sticker price will net you some of the latest technologies, including Bluetooth audio support and a standard 3.5mm audio input, but Apple's new Lightning port is notably absent, with a good-as-dead Dock Connector mounted up top, instead. With 70 watts of power and Jarre's backing, this seemingly bizarre rig may actually offer decent performance. You'll need to wait until its October ship date to see for yourself, but if a skeletal sound system is on your list of must-haves, you can rest in peace knowing that you have but weeks to live (with your current spirited setup).

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Visualized: 50 shades of Nexus, by ASUS

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ASUS is never shy at showing off its creative side. At Taiwan Designers' Week last Sunday, we spotted the company's above art installation dubbed "Palette": a mesmerizing circle of 50 overlapping Nexus 7 back covers, each in its very own shade of color. Interestingly, all of these were actually used in the development process of Google's Nexus 7, which just goes to show the kind of mad dedication ASUS had put into the joint project.

But wait, there's more! To match the event's "Flow" theme this year, ASUS decided to also show off parts of the design process that determined the final appearance of its other hero products -- hence the title "Becoming" for the booth's own theme. For instance, much like what the company's lovely Michelle Hsiao showed us on the Engadget Show, the booth again featured a handful of tablet chassis parts and dummies (mainly of PadFone, Zenbook, Transformer Prime and a 7-inch device) at different stages of their development, complemented by a generous selection of colors and finishes. Only this time the designers used some of them to create gradient wall art that we wouldn't mind having at home. Check them out after the break.

Gallery: 2012 Taiwan Designers' Week: ASUS' "Becoming" booth

Gallery: 2012 Taiwan Designers' Week: Google Nexus 7, ASUS' 7-inch tablets and PadFone

Gallery: 2012 Taiwan Designers' Week: ASUS Transformer Prime and Zenbook

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Shimi Dancing Robot for the iPhone Hits Kickstarter

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Back in June, we talked about the Shimi smart musical robot based on the Android platform. The device has now hit Kickstarter with plans for coming to the iOS platform. The developers say Android users shouldn’t worry, an Android version will still be coming.

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If you don’t remember this little robot, it’s an audio dock that nods its head and taps a little robot foot to the beat of your music. The project is seeking $100,000 and so far has over $18,000 pledged with 28 days to go. The developers say that the $100,000 will be used to move from the Android-based prototype to the iPhone version.

Some of the loot collected will also be used for redesigning components of the little robot for low-cost and durability. The money raised will also create tooling and parts to enable mass production of the Shimi. A pledge of $149(USD) towards the project will get you one of the first commercially available Shimi bots.


Grace Digital’s FireDock is a speaker dock for your Kindle Fire

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Own a Kindle Fire? Can't find an audio dock made specifically for your gizmo, and not an iThing or Android device? Say hello to Grace Digital's FireDock, the $130 solution to your quandary. While we've seen Kindle-compatible docks before, this stereo system is actually made to seamlessly connect with the Fire's bottom ports and power button, allowing it to charge while docked. What's more, there's a turn-and-tilt feature that'll let you switch between landscape and portrait orientations -- perfect for going from books to movies. If that wasn't enough, an optional rechargeable battery can also be attached to the mini-rig for listening sans cords while you're out and about (though, this route disables the ability to charge the Kindle itself). If you're burning with desire for the FireDock, the bad news is that it won't be available for purchase until July. In the meantime, you'll find more info in the press release after the break to help you cool down.

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