Otter Transcription and Note Taking AI Tool

Otter is an AI-powered transcription and note-taking tool that converts spoken language into written text. It's designed to help users record, transcribe, and organize conversations, meetings, and other audio recordings. Otter uses artificial intelligence to automatically transcribe audio into text, identify speakers, and even generate summaries and action items. 

Taking notes during meetings or transcribing conversations can be time-consuming and distracting. Otter.ai streamlines this process by converting your voice interactions into searchable, shareable smart notes. Whether you’re in a meeting, conducting an interview, brainstorming on the go, or transcribing existing recordings, Otter.ai enhances your productivity. Additionally, you can capture photos such as whiteboard content or speaker slides during a recording, and Otter.ai will seamlessly integrate them into your transcripts. This comprehensive approach ensures you never miss a detail.

Here's a more detailed explanation:

• Transcription:

  Otter transcribes spoken words into text in real-time or from imported audio/video files. 

• Speaker Identification:

  It can identify and differentiate between multiple speakers in a conversation. 

• Meeting Notes:

  Otter can generate summaries, action items, and key phrases from conversations to help users focus on important information. 

• Integration:

  Otter integrates with various platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and calendar applications. 

• Collaboration:

  It facilitates team collaboration by allowing users to share notes, summaries, and action items. 

• AI Agent:

  Otter has an AI agent that can join virtual meetings, take notes, and even participate in discussions. 

• Use Cases:

  Otter is used in various settings, including business meetings, interviews, lectures, and media production. 

Never miss a detail with AI Meeting notes

Otter auto-joins Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams meetings to automatically take notes, allowing everyone to participate freely.  Follow along live on the web or on the iOS or Android app.

Condense a 1-hour meeting into 30 seconds

Attended a 1-hour team meeting, but can’t remember a thing? Otter generates a 30-second summary, keeping everyone informed.

Skip the tedious task of composing action item emails

Otter automatically captures and assigns action items from the meeting, with complete context of the discussion, keeping everyone aligned on next steps.

Great for playing catch-up on missed meetings

You can use Otter as a standalone service or integrate it with your accounts on Slack, Microsoft and Google. If you do integrate it with your calendars, you can easily see all your meetings for the day in the left side menu and decide which you want to use Otter to record by easily toggling on and off the microphone widget. Either way, all you need to do is click a few buttons and you're ready to record; it couldn't be easier to navigate and use. Compared with Zoom and Microsoft Teams, Otter lets you share recordings pretty painlessly. Still, you may not be able to share recordings with someone outside your organization with a business account.

Otter will only record your audio, not your video. When your meeting is over, Otter will finalize your transcript quickly. You can tag each speaker with their name, and Otter will automatically update the transcript to reflect each voice with their assigned name. You don't have to worry about tagging the speaker in every section -- occasionally Otter will struggle to confirm the voice, but it's usually quick and easy.

One of the nice things about Otter is that the audio of the meeting is combined with the transcribed text. So when you go through the transcript and click on one section of the text, the audio from that point will play. You can follow along with the text as the audio plays. This makes it easy to edit your transcript since you can hear the exact audio you need while editing the transcript text. Other services like Zoom and Microsoft Teams don't combine the meeting audio with the transcript, so this is a major perk to using Otter. 

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