Tool Name:
Otter.ai
Description:
Otter.ai is an AI meeting assistant and transcription tool that generates live transcripts, automatic summaries, action items, and searchable meeting notes. It joins your meetings, listens, and helps streamline meeting workflows by capturing key details and insights.
Unique Features:
- Live transcription & summaries — Otter can transcribe meetings as they happen and create concise summaries.
- AI Chat & Q&A — users can ask questions about the meeting content and get contextual responses.
- Action item detection — automatically extracts and assigns tasks or follow-ups from conversation.
- Integrations with meeting platforms — Otter can join Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and sync slides/screenshares.
- Custom meeting templates — users can apply or create templates to structure the summary sections, action items, and insights.
- Workspace and team collaboration features — centralized billing, user management, analytics, and security settings (2FA) for teams.
- Retention of conversation history — when downgrading or canceling plans, conversations remain in the account; free tier limits archived visibility.
Pricing:
- Basic (Free): free forever — up to 300 minutes/month of transcription, max 30 minutes per meeting, import up to 3 audio/video files, up to 25 recent conversations visible. Otter Help Center
- Pro: $8.33/user/month (billed annually) or $16.99/month billed monthly — includes 1,200 minutes/month and additional features. Otter.ai
