BEFORE.Band is building a deliberate path from selected speech to a clean transcript an authorized external agent can retrieve. These guides explain the category, privacy boundaries and test methods without treating roadmap targets as finished capabilities.
A practical explanation of the boundary between BEFORE’s transcript-delivery responsibility and the downstream interpretation performed by ChatGPT, Claude Code or another user-controlled agent.
Read guide: What should an AI agent receive from a voice recorder?A concrete checklist for evaluating privacy in a wearable AI recorder—beyond a vague promise that data is secure.
Read guide: What makes an AI voice recorder private?A practical comparison of intentional and ambient AI wearables, including the trade-offs in recall, privacy, bystander consent, data volume and everyday trust.
Read guide: Should an AI wearable always listen?A reusable, evidence-bounded framework for journalists, reviewers, builders and buyers who need to distinguish intentional capture from vague privacy marketing.
Read guide: The intentional AI wearable checklistYes—but “talk to your AI” can mean two different things. A watch or earbuds can support live back-and-forth. A one-press recorder can preserve a selected thought as a transcript your chosen AI can retrieve later, without turning your wrist into another screen.
Read guide: How can you talk to your AI without taking out your phone?The scenarios, measures and reporting rules BEFORE.Band will use before publishing any transcript-quality result from a physical sample.
Read guide: A reproducible test protocol for wearable transcript quality