Otter.ai

Otter.ai is a pioneer and market leader in AI-powered transcription and meeting assistance, renowned for its exceptional accuracy and intuitive live note-taking experience. Launched in 2016, it helped define the category by offering real-time transcription that feels like a collaborative digital participant. Its core strength lies in sophisticated speaker identification, allowing it to differentiate between multiple voices in a meeting and attribute comments correctly, a feature refined over years of development. The platform goes beyond raw transcription with AI-generated summaries, action item extraction, and keyword highlighting.

It integrates natively with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet, and its standalone mobile app is highly polished. Otter is ideal for students, professionals, journalists, and teams who need reliable, searchable records of conversations. Compared to newer entrants, Otter's advantage is its mature, purpose-built AI for conversational speech and a vast archive of user-improved transcripts that continuously enhance its model. Its workspace features allow teams to share, comment on, and collaborate within transcripts, making it a knowledge base for organizational memory.