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Hi Bhavya. I use Plaud daily and despite its accessibility frustrations, wouldn't want to be without it.</div>
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Its iOS app is a lottery, every time they release an update, it's anyone's guess whether it will represent an improvement or a significant degradation. Plaud has been teasing a new agentic AI that may help but I have not tried that yet. I'm not sure that it
is released but if not, it's close.</div>
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People are using several mitigation strategies. I was contacted by someone who, with Claude, hacked together a script, which attempts to fix the accessibility issues at least on the Plaud website. This uses the Tampermonkey extension and thus changes just the
site on your browser. It is also very fragile, and can fall over when they change anything. It's at least now possible to read through transcripts, edit speaker labels, review highlights and manage files.</div>
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Plaud now works with several AI services including Claude and ChatGPT, I have found Claude to have the best support.</div>
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But my favorite workaround is that I connected Plaud with Zapier. Zapier monitors for new things that I send to Plaud and immediately creates a Markdown version of the document which it places in a Dropbox folder I created for the purpose. It's been rock solid
for me.</div>
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It will then take that transcript, extract the tasks assigned to me, and put them directly into my Todoist. This part is less reliable and falls over from time to time.</div>
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I persist with Plaud because its hardware is fantastic for note taking at conferences. I use the Note Pro which has very good microphones even though the recordings sound terrible. The transcriptions turn out well. The PC app just sits in the background and
records whatever meeting you're in regardless of the service.</div>
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Jonathan Mosen<br>
Executive Director for Accessibility Excellence<br>
National Federation of the Blind <br>
410-659-9314 ex 2233 <br>
<span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><a href="mailto:jmosen@nfb.org" id="OWA2ee96279-54fa-9e9d-9f0a-9660dad5ad60" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>jmosen@nfb.org</u></a></span></div>
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<b>From:</b> NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces@nfbnet.org> on behalf of Bhavya Shah via NFBCS <nfbcs@nfbnet.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 14, 2026 04:09<br>
<b>To:</b> nfbcs@nfbnet.org <nfbcs@nfbnet.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Bhavya Shah <bhavya.shah125@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [NFBCS] Accessible bot-free meeting note takers, and getting notes out of them
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<div>Hi everyone,</div>
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<div>I'm comparing bot-free AI note takers for Zoom and Google Meet: Granola, Jamie, Wispr Notetaker, Otter's desktop app, and Plaud.</div>
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<div>Two questions. First, has anyone used one of these with a screen reader day to day? Second, has anyone worked around an inaccessible interface by pulling notes out through exports, an API, or an MCP connection to an AI assistant?</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div><b>Bhavya Shah</b></div>
<div>M.S. AI & B.S. Math/CS, Stanford University</div>
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