Meetings, lectures, Bluetooth calls – conversations rarely stick to one format. Usually, to record them, you need to manually switch modes on your dictaphone. Boya Notra Neo, the second generation AI dictaphone from Boya, solves this problem by automatically adapting to the situation. The main feature of Notra Neo is its ability to independently determine whether you are in an auditorium, on a phone call, or listening to something through headphones. The device switches between three recording modes: Ambient (for recording surrounding sound), Phone Call (for phone conversations), and Bluetooth (for audio coming through connected devices). Most gadgets require the user to manually select a mode, which is distracting. Boya, on the other hand, relies on the device's intelligence to "read the room" itself. The Ambient mode is designed for personal meetings, lectures, and interviews where you need to capture sound from all directions. The Notra Neo microphone provides 360-degree sound capture within a 5-meter radius, allowing you to clearly hear even someone speaking from the other end of the table or from the back rows of an auditorium. The Bluetooth mode is particularly relevant nowadays. It records audio transmitted through headphones or a headset – an ideal solution for online lectures, webinars, and video conferences when you don't want to miss a single word. After recording, Notra Neo transcribes speech into text in over 140 languages, indicating who spoke. This significantly simplifies working with recordings of group discussions where it's easy to get confused about who said what. For multilingual teams and educational institutions, such a function is a lifesaver. But transcription is just the beginning. Notra Neo's artificial intelligence turns recordings into ready-made summaries, to-do lists, mind maps, and insights, using over 60 templates tailored for different types of conversations. A lecture becomes a study guide for exam preparation, a meeting turns into a list of decisions made and next steps, and a client call becomes a valuable source of information for analysis. The AI Search function allows you to find the information you need by asking questions, instead of listening through hours of audio. All data is synchronized via the Boya OS app and web platform, and you can export it in various formats: audio, text, or mind map. The device operates for up to 20 hours on a single charge, and the built-in 8GB of memory is enough to record an entire semester of lectures or a multi-day conference. At the same time, Notra Neo remains compact enough to fit in a pocket or pencil case. Boya Notra Neo stands out not for a single feature, but for its approach: the dictaphone adapts to the user's habits, not the other way around. The device will be officially presented at IFA 2026 in Berlin. Boya has focused on simplification to allow the user to pay more attention to the conversation itself – which, after all, was the main goal.
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Boya Notra Neo: The Dictaphone That Understands Where You Are
Meetings, lectures, Bluetooth calls – conversations rarely stick to one format.
Author: Майя Окамото · Sep 63 min

Category: AI
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