Otter.ai

Otter is a transcription and collaboration tool that helps teams capture and summarize conversations from online meeting. It currently only integrates with the 3 leading video conference tools Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet. Otter also allows users to import and transcribe pre-recorded audio and video files.

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Features

‍Otters's main features are:

• Live captions during your online meetings for Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, so you can always keep track of what is being said at the moment
• Transcribe other pre-recorded audio or video files. You can simply upload them to Otters platform
• Personal time stamps make it easy to identify when a person talked during the meeting

Pros

• The Otter bot automatically joins your online meetings and records both video and audio
• While watching the live captions during online meetings, you can manually select sentences that you believe are important

Cons

• Unfortunately, Otter currently only works in English and can therefore not be used in other languages
• Otter does not automatically summarize your meeting notes or provides you with automated insights. It still requires you to select important moments manually during or after the meeting
• Otter only provides you with a transcript of the online meetings, which requires time intensive searching in a long transcript in case important information is needed

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Pricing

‍Otter offers two paid plans, starting at 17€/month for the Pro Plan and 29€/month for the Business Plan. They also offer a free plan with limited features and meeting minutes.

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jamie

With jamie, a personal AI meeting assistant, you can effortlessly generate meeting notes and summaries in just seconds. Jamie automatically records the meeting to generates action items, an executive summary, and topic based notes. Once the meeting is finished, you can easily access and edit your notes before sharing them with your team or saving them in your preferred knowledge management tool.

Features

‍jamie's main features are:‍

• Different languages: Use jamie in more than 15 languages (including accents) with great constant business quality outcome-
• High flexibility: Because jamie runs natively on macOS and Windows, it is integrated into your work flow. Therefore, it works across any online meeting software, even offline in a meeting room.
• No integrations to online meeting software providers are required. This allows a seamless workflow without login or registration process.

Pros

• With jamie, you can enjoy automated meeting notes, action items and executive summaries that eliminate the need to go through long transcripts.
• With jamie you can have your meeting in over 15 languages
• No need for annoying plug ins or awkward meeting bots that distract clients and others.
• jamie allows for personal highlighting, to bring what every you find interesting right to the top of the summary.

Cons

• Currently you can try jamie for free for up to 7 days, but stay tuned we have some updates coming soon!
• If you want to analyse video recordings from your calls, jamie does not provide these in order to ensure a certain level of privacy during meetings

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Pricing

‍jamie offers three different paid plans. The Standard Plan starts at 24€/month, the Pro Plan, for 47€/month and the Executive Plan for 96€/month.

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Fireflies

Fireflies is an AI powered tool that can be used to record, transcription and search conversations that have been recorded. It helps teams to share and search transcripts of meetings.

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Features

‍Fireflies's main features are:

• The Fireflies video conferencing bot can automatically access your calendar and join meeting
• Fireflies lets you upload pre-recorded audio files to transcribe them
• Fireflies offers integrations to Dropbox or Onedrive to store long transcripts directly in the cloud

Pros

• Next to English Fireflies works in: German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian

• A powerful search function allows you to search for keywords in long transcripts

Cons

• Similar to Otter also Fireflies only generates transcripts of meetings

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Pricing

Fireflies also offers two paid plans, starting at 18€/month for the Pro Plan and 29€/month for the Business Plan. They also offer a free plan with limited transcription credits and storage.

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Supernormal

Supernormal is the last of the three AI powered alternatives to Otter. Supernormal uses AI to record, transcribe and generate notes from meetings in Google Meet.

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Features

‍Supernormal's main features are:

• The supernormal automatically joins your call and records meetings in Google Meet, MS Teams and Zoom
• You can share your recorded meeting and your notes directly with your friends and colleagues

Pros

• Supernormal can record the meeting without having a bot join the meeting

• In Google Meet you can get automated meeting notes after each meeting

Cons

• Currently, the automated meeting notes work only for Google Meet
• For MS Teams and Zoom, Supernormal is currently not available for Windows users
• No automatic language detection, which means users have to proactively set the language of a meeting before
• The output of the summary and the transcript is always in english regardless of what language was spoken.

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Pricing

Supernormal also offers one free plan with limited meeting credits and a dynamic paid plans, starting at 15€/month and goes up to 179€/month.