It feels like many products have got a new life with AI now, and that’s also the case for the earbuds category. These are the TicNote Pods 4G AI Recording Earbuds. Pay attention to the naming; you will know exactly why they have such a long name. Now these earbuds pack a ton of features. If you are a businessman, student, or journalist, you can really take advantage of them a lot. These earbuds are on Kickstarter time, and an important note to take is that, there are one or two features that I won’t be able to show you; they will only be available before the official launch.
Main Features
Now what can these really do? Simple, AI Recording and transcription, 4G network on the product itself.
AI Recording
For the first time you use them, a very important note: remember to connect your phone, or let’s say your App, to both the case and the earbuds. Why? because the way to use them is different. If you are in a meeting, the case will be recording the audio. The same thing happens when you are in a one-on-one conversation, you use the case to record the other person’s talking. Either way, you will listen to the audio with the earbuds.
The other way to use the recording feature is with the earbuds. If you have an iPhone, even with the new iOS version, the other person still knows you are recording. If you have these, you can record the phone call with peace of mind. Or if you connect them to your computer, you can also record your ZOOM meetings.
Now they can support a 25hrs of recording with the case, and 5 hours of phone recording with the earbuds. 25hrs of recording with the case is impressive, but it is kind of understandable, I mean, the case has a big battery we all know it. And also they have 32GB of storage built inside of it, so it can record for a long long time, while not taking too much of your phone’s storage.
The quality of the recording is also good, with ENC’s support, the voices can be recognized clearly.
AI translation
After the recording, you can get to the App to manage the files. To my experience, as long as the case is close to your phone, the files can be transferred from the case to the App fairly quickly. Ok so how is the transcription?
I have a one-hour-long meeting in French here, and I think it managed to do the job really well. It separates each speaker clearly, and records everything in the finest detail. It says there is voiceprint recognition tech inside, so it can identify each speaker, and then mark an ID on them in the App. I think it is super helpful, let’s say it’s a long boring meeting, and you just need to get the info and CTAs from your boss, then you just check what he or she said, and do what you have to do right away. One minor limitation in this part is that, it only supports Chinese and English, I hope more languages will be supported in the future.
The summary is very detailed and structured, so is the mind map. If you are like me who doesn’t know French, then the summary or the transcript can also be changed to English. The transcription speed is also very good. For this 1hr-ish audio, it managed to finish in like 3 mins.
The product supports 100+ languages transcription, which covers basically the languages from Mars. And tons of templates to be used for summary. You have 600mins of free transcription allowance every month, so make sure you use them for important meetings, otherwise you will have to buy some more.
Shadow AI
And then there is the so-called Shadow AI built in, basically it has almost all the advanced LLMs inside, including GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, and Grok. We know these AIs have their own advantages, having them all in one product is awesome, you get the best results whatever industry you are in, whatever project you are working on, and you save tons of money.
The Shadow AI helped with the work a lot. There are two parts in the App, the Aha moment and the Deep Research. The Aha moment is something worthy or creative you might have missed during the meeting. And the Deep Research can help with making some further solutions or ideas based on the conversation inside.
To save you the time of summarizing all the CTA and setting all the reminders, there is a feature called Intelligence Push. It fetches all the CTAs in that meeting, categorizes them, and sends a notification at the time you requested. This is a killer feature, it can really save you a lot of brain power and time to do this task.
You can also upload recordings or files, then ask Shadow AI to do the job. Let’s say you forgot the TicNote device and used your phone to record the meeting instead, or you have some old long files, you can just take advantage of the AI in this product.
TicNote Cloud
If you prefer to manage all the recordings, files on your computer, there is also the Ticnote Cloud. It is a webpage-based platform, where all the files are synced, and you can check and copy them. I find the efficiency of the cloud is very good. Right after I uploaded the recording to the App, the audio, the summary, all of them are on the webpage also.
Design
I won’t make you hear all the stuff about the design anymore, we have talked about earbuds quite enough. Basically they are well-made, if not better than all those open-earbuds out there. The shape, you must have seen similar ones. The materials, either flexible and also skin-friendly. Touch controls on the logo here. One thing to keep in mind though, there is a metal plate with the logo on the case. It can add some aesthetic to the product, but be careful not to put it in the same place as your phone or something delicate, or it will do a bit of damage to other things.
Other Features
Like I mentioned earlier, there are still some features not done yet, like the 4G network on the product itself, basically eSIM support. I don’t know how that would work, but from the info we received from the brand, it says a few years of free data allowance, and many countries are supported. You can refer to their website for the exact info.
Summary
So what do you think about the TicNote Pods 4G AI Recording Earbuds? Leave your comment below. After I tried all the features, I think they are an excellent tool for many people. Honestly, we have seen the AI features integrated in the earbuds this year, but none of them have gone far enough to support you with so many features. The super long recording time, internal storage, the very sophisticated AI features, and the upcoming 4G connectivity. I have never thought they could be so versatile and capable. So if you are a businessman who deals with tons of meetings, a student who would be buried by all kinds of notes, these are your best companions so far.
