Otter transcribes calls and meetings live and works well for personal use like recording doctor's appointments or casual conversations, since you can just hit record and drop your phone in your pocket. For business, we recommend checking out other options (despite all their marketing being geared to businesses now).
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What is Otter?
What is Otter?Otter was one of the original note takers. It would transcribe your calls and meetings live, and we used it for years before the whole AI notetaker boom.
We mostly found it more useful for personal use than business use. It was great for things like recording doctor's appointments or casual conversations, since you could just hit record and drop your phone in your pocket.
Now there are a lot more competitors on the market (like Granola, which is what we use), and Otter has adapted by adding more AI-powered note-taking features. But we still view it as a simple tool for transcribing conversations, not quite a tool we'd bring into the business.
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