Last updated: May 19, 2025
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Overview
Hedy AI acts as a personal AI coach for meetings, lectures, interviews, and various conversations. It transcribes discussions in real-time and uses natural language processing to analyze context, offering users intelligent prompts, suggested talking points, and follow-up questions. The tool aims to boost confidence and clarity in communication, helping users to articulate thoughts better, identify key opportunities in discussions, and capture important information. It supports multiple languages and offers features like meeting summaries and action item extraction. Hedy is available on mobile devices (iOS, Android) and has a native macOS app.
Key Features
✦ Real-time Transcription: Transcribes conversations live during meetings, lectures, or calls.
✦ Conversation Analysis & Insights: Provides real-time analysis of discussions, offering personalized insights and coaching prompts.
✦ Intelligent Talking Points: Suggests relevant questions and talking points to enhance contributions.
✦ Meeting Summaries & Minutes: Automatically generates summaries, key points, and action items post-meeting.
✦ Multi-Lingual Support: Supports transcription and understanding in numerous languages (30+ mentioned for Hedy 2.0).
✦ Cross-Device Sync: Cloud sync allows access to session history across mobile and desktop (macOS app available).
✦ To-Do Extraction: Automatically identifies and extracts action items from conversations.
✦ Customizable Perspective Filters: Allows users to tailor the AI's focus based on the nature of the conversation (e.g., business, personal, recruitment).
Advantages
🟩 Improved Communication: Helps users articulate thoughts more clearly and confidently.
🟩 Real-time Assistance: Provides on-the-fly suggestions and insights during live conversations.
🟩 Enhanced Meeting Productivity: Facilitates better engagement, captures key details, and automates summaries/action items.
🟩 Memory & Comprehension Aid: Assists in understanding complex topics and recalling important conversation details.
🟩 Multilingual Capabilities: Supports users in diverse linguistic environments.
🟩 Privacy-Focused Option: Emphasizes on-device processing for audio and local storage by default.
Limitations
🟥 Audio Capture Limitations: For virtual meetings, effectiveness can depend on audio setup (e.g., may not hear full conversation if user is on headphones unless system audio is integrated, which the macOS app aims to solve).
🟥 Transcription Speed/Accuracy: Can vary based on device processing power and audio quality; on-device processing can be resource-intensive.
🟥 User Interaction Required: Some users note that interacting with the app (e.g., on a phone) during a meeting can be distracting or look unprofessional.
🟥 AI Imperfection: AI-generated insights and suggestions may not always be perfect and require human judgment.
🟥 App Stability/Bugs: Some users have reported occasional glitches or the app shutting down, though updates aim to address these.
Use Cases
➤ Business Meetings: Improving participation, capturing action items, and generating meeting minutes.
➤ Lectures & Classes: Assisting students in understanding concepts, asking relevant questions, and creating study notes.
➤ Interviews (Recruitment & Journalism): Generating follow-up questions, identifying key candidate competencies, or unique angles for stories.
➤ Coaching & Mentoring: Providing prompts for powerful questions, recognizing patterns, and tracking progress in coaching sessions.
➤ Medical Appointments: Helping patients understand complex medical terminology, remember instructions, and formulate questions for their doctors.
➤ Personal Conversations: Improving active listening and articulation in various personal discussions.
Pricing Details
Hedy AI operates on a freemium model with a subscription for Pro features.
⭘ Free Tier: A limited free version is available, offering 300 minutes of transcription per month
⭘ Pro Plan (e.g., ~$9.99/month or ~$69.99/year): A subscription that unlocks unlimited meeting lengths, unlimited sessions, cloud sync across devices (web app, macOS, mobile), post-session chat with the transcript, and full multilingual support. A free trial (e.g., 7-day) is often available for the Pro plan.
(Note: Lifetime deals have occasionally been available on platforms like AppSumo. Pricing is subject to change.)
Summary
Hedy AI is a real-time conversation coach and meeting assistant that transcribes, analyzes, and provides AI-powered insights and prompts to help users communicate more effectively and confidently in various settings.
Released Dates
2025
May 7 – Hedy AI announced Hedy 2.0, featuring a native macOS app for real-time AI meeting coaching.
April 30 – Hedy AI (v2.3) added features to regenerate summaries, resend recap emails, import existing transcripts, and delete Cloud Sync sessions from any device.
April 24 – Hedy AI (v2.2.0) introduced automatic to-do list extraction from session conversations with API export (Pro only) and a new "Coaching & Mentoring" session type.
April 18 – Deep linking to sessions on the Hedy AI Web App was improved.
April 16 – Hedy AI's meeting coach functionality became available on desktop.
February 24 – Hedy AI introduced a Pro feature to turn recorded meetings, lectures, and voice memos into intelligent, searchable sessions.
January – Hedy AI released updates including audio recordings and dark mode.
January 7 – Hedy AI announced integration with Zapier, connecting conversations with other apps.
2024
December 20 – The Hedy API was launched, allowing integration of Hedy's AI meeting intelligence into other applications.
December 12 – Hedy AI expanded language support to 19 languages for meeting analysis.
October 22 – Hedy Highlights (personal knowledge capture system) and a "Journalism Mode" were introduced.
October 4 – A new "Medical Consultation" mode was introduced in Hedy AI.
October 1 – Hedy AI was updated to understand and process multilingual conversations in real-time.
September 20 – Session Recap Emails were introduced by Hedy AI.
August 29 – The Post-Session Chat feature was launched, allowing users to revisit past Hedy sessions.
August 21 – Hedy Cloud Sync was introduced, enabling a desktop browser experience for Hedy.
July 29 – Hedy AI introduced multilingual support for providing insights and answers.
July 17 – The Hedy AI-Powered Meeting Assistant app was launched on iOS.
