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Otter.ai
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Pricing
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How we rated it
What it is
Meeting transcription: joins your calls, writes everything down, identifies speakers, and produces a summary with the action points.
Who it is for
Anyone in enough meetings that taking notes stops them from participating.
Where it is strongest
Searchable meeting history. Two months later, finding what was agreed takes a search instead of a memory.
Where it falls short
Accuracy drops on accents, crosstalk and jargon. The summaries miss what was implied rather than said. And recording people requires their consent — in several countries that is law, not etiquette.
Our verdict
Recommended, provided you tell everyone it is recording. Treat the summary as a draft, not as minutes.
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