SPONSORED: This back-to-school season, why not tackle the curriculum with a proactive AI study and teaching companion that’s always by your side? At home and at school, during and after lectures.
The PLAUD NOTE and PLAUD NotePin recording devices use AI to offer groundbreaking tools for students and educators and, for a limited time, they’re available for 10% off.
Thanks to AI, these devices – which have already taken the business world by storm – do far much more than simply record and accurately transcribe classroom lectures, they take an active approach to learning.
They help students digest and master the information and assist teachers in refining their approach to teaching day-to-day lectures for more effective student outcomes.
Let’s first consider the existing learning solutions that aren’t working for students: The frantic scribbling of difficult-to-read and incomplete notes doesn’t fully capture the concepts. Audio recordings of lectures only capture raw data and require more time to listen back or to read through transcripts. They’re passive tools.
With PLAUD, every recording of a lecture or group work session is actively transformed into a bulleted AI-generated digestible summary, extracting the session’s key ideas. During group work, individual speakers are identified and named in the recordings and transcripts.
The summaries add hugely valuable context, breaking down complex concepts that may not have been fully absorbed during class. PLAUD Intelligence references many of the top AI models – GPT-4.1, o3-mini, Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro – to deliver these reliable, well-sourced insights.
The Mind Maps is equally useful. It transforms the recordings into structured visuals to denote the key concepts. It can also organise your study plan like an AI-powered brainstorm, unlocking new paths forward by reaching places your own mind may not.
Key information is presented for review, and you can use the “Ask AI” assistant to generate a quiz on the lecture to help the knowledge bed-in.
There’s immense peace of mind for students knowing everything is being captured and intelligently interpreted. Instead of heads-down in a notepad, PLAUD gives students permission to stay present during lessons, engaging with teaching staff and contributing to group discussions.
With all this, PLAUD AI tech can be a tremendous study aid, but over the course of a semester the recordings become invaluable.
Students can use PLAUD’s “Ask AI” feature to go back in time and draw correlations between the key ideas imparted across the curriculum, or easily seek out the information they require for a final thesis.
The recordings become an encyclopaedia of the course of study, referencing the important information with clarity – as the faculty intended it to be delivered. There’s no need to seek out third-party material to help make sense of the concept. It’s all right there.
The PLAUD NOTE and PLAUD NotePin are equally valuable tools for educators looking to improve their offerings, as recordings retain the structure of the lecture content for post-class review.
Teachers can “Ask AI” for feedback on the clarity of delivery and with refining future lessons. This can reduce preparation time for future sessions and ensure more consistency in delivery. Again, everything imparted to students is captured and easily referenced in an encyclopaedia of the course of study. This is invaluable for year-on-year planning.
The credit card-sized PLAUD NOTE can be magnetically attached to the back of a smartphone or slipped into a shirt pocket, while the NotePin can be worn on your person. Both are activated with the touch of a button and record crystal clear audio, even in a crowded lecture hall.
With 30 hours of continuous recording via the battery and 480 hours of recordings stored directly on the devices, you’re always ready to capture knowledge. The noise cancelling capabilities mean you’re always getting pristine audio clarity too.
PLAUD believes that students already have plenty of tools to assist them, but “lack a system that understands how real learning happens.”
“Truly smart tools don’t just document,” the company adds. “They help you structure. They help you focus. They help you master.”
