Every Think Week: Monologue HARDWARE?!
At Every's Think Week in New York, Naveen shows host Kieran an early prototype of Monologue hardware, a credit-card-sized voice device. He argues that AI now makes building hardware almost as fast as building software.
The gist
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The prototype attaches to a phone, with a big blue button for dictation and a white button for recording notes from calls or meetings.
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Naveen says it stores about 3 hours of audio offline, aiming for 60 hours, and has a 2-week battery, a small screen and vibration feedback.
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Naveen says early hardware cycles once took him 4 weeks each, but this prototype took 2 weeks, with Claude helping design and test the circuit board.
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Teammate Evan built a custom board around an ESP32 chip on a home PCB maker, and a thinner aluminum case is planned.
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Unlike Limitless, Naveen wants it to avoid always-on listening, let users flash their own firmware, and cost about $79 to $99.
Also mentioned
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Monokey
· "We initially came up with two form factors. One is the Monokey, which is like a small pendant kind of a..."
6:47
Monocard
· "Here you can see the Monocard, which is connected through Bluetooth... one cool thing is it has a very good..."
15:13
Mono 1
· "So he initially worked on model training. So we have our own custom dictation model, right? Which we call..."
15:55
ESP32
· "The controller that we have is off the market. We didn't make our own controller. It just uses ESP32."
26:35
Monologue
· "Same way how Monolog now has its own dictation API where you are using it within Cora, you can use it..."
29:14
MagSafe Battery Pack
· "I think even Apple's own MagSafe battery doesn't fit into this."
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