Willow: AI-powered Voice Dictation App with Scribe Feature

>> If if Anthrop is going to pop off at cocktail parties or internally telling people and I believe it's true, they say it's not true. >> I believe Gavin, >> that sounds like they're going to say we're the last >> something they would say. It to me it sounds like something I can imagine them saying is like, "Well, if we're being honest, there's a good chance we're gonna be the last private company on Earth." Like, I believe it. I believe it. >> Sure. Why Why wouldn't there be a I mean, there there was a final company in Wall-E. It's a great science fiction premise. That one company >> something. Yeah. Buy and grow. I don't remember what's called. >> Yeah. Buy and grow, whatever. It's like the Walmart. >> Thank you to Jacob for that. We got a guest. I want to bring up our our first guest. Uh he's he is the co-founder and CEO of the AI powered free uh speaking of free things that are free the free AI powered voice dictation app Willow. Uh please welcome Alan Guo. Thanks for joining us Alan. Okay we we made we made Alan wait but Allan is here now. >> Uh welcome to the program Alan. This is a whisper competitor free. >> Is the model? It's free to use. Well then how do you make money? M >> yeah, I'm happy to tell you more, Jason. First of all, I'm excited to be on this podcast because I heard that you're a big voice user >> and I heard that you have a pedal. >> I have a pedal. I'm addicted to uh Whisper Flow. I use Whisper Flow >> constantly. So, that's your competitor. That's who you got to displace now. Let's see what you can do here, Alan. >> In this short period of time, I'm going to have to convince you to use Willow. Well, I mean, the other thing that I will say, L, I don't know if you noticed this, my Grammarly >> and my notion >> are all trying to get in on the dictation game. So, they also have dictation offerings and they're continuing to try to intercept this very important function. So, Alan, are you going to demo the product here for us and tell us, you know, your innovation? >> Yeah, of course. >> All right, demo or Here we go. So, as a quick intro on what Willow is, >> we're a voice dictation product. We're a voice first interface for modern work. And similar to Whisper, we have a dictation product. You can speak, you can press a hotkey, it works, you can type anywhere. >> Yes. >> Really, really magical that's been really catching people's eyes, especially high communication teams, is a product called Scribe. And Scribe is a step above dictation. You can think of it like a writing assistant. You tell it what you want to say and then Willow writes it for you using her style context. >> So I'm going to screen my share my screen here. >> Okay, >> here's a demo. Someone said, you know, my dictation quality has gone down this week for some reason. Um, any idea what's happening with Willow? >> Okay, and this is a Gmail and you're responding >> this could be like um you know a customer support request. >> Got it. with dictation as you know you can press a hotkey and you can say hey Sarah this is a test best Allen and you can see you kind of dictate that >> which is very snappy >> you know less than 250 milliseconds the most accurate dictation tool but scribe is which was which is what I really want to show you >> I don't even have to word for word dictate I can just say respond to her with our common troubleshooting tips >> so this is like a snippet >> oh wow look at that >> coming from the corporate side of the the snippet collection. Yeah. >> Yes. And I press enter and it magically appears. >> And what I can also do is, you know, let's say that didn't solve her problem.