I and my team have been using Otter.ai for few months now, and it has significantly enhanced the transcription and note-taking experience.
We loved the real-time transcription, the ability to identify speakers, and the option to organize and search through transcriptions.
The standout features for me are the meeting summarizing and action items capabilities. The app's ability to generate concise summaries of meetings is truly impressive, saving me valuable time and ensuring I never miss crucial details.
Additionally, the action items feature is a game-changer, helping me stay organized and on top of my tasks.
Otter.ai has undeniably made my teams life easier, and I highly recommend it to anyone in need of a reliable and efficient note-taking app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Accuracy in Noisy Environments - While Otter.ai generally performs very well, I found that its accuracy is sometimes affected in noisy environments or situations with multiple speakers with different accents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Otter.ai is a great AI tool to transcribe audios and videos. Premium version is great, as it allows you to upload more audio minutes. Best part is the time stamping and accuacy of it. I have been using the premium version for a long time now and recent upgrade in which AI helps you to extract required information from the conversation is extremely helpful. Exporting in different formats makes it quite easy to acquire the desired output. Dashboard is easy to use and it seems very welcoming to new users as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I am overall satified but I would say that it can improve in terms of speaker identification and it ocassionaly gets clunky while editing. I understand that it is working in real-time and saving the information but you can't make mistakes as it has built in auto save option and you can't undo if you save and close the file, which is quite disturbing. Customer support might feel bit slow sometimes, even for the premium members, however Otter.ai is generally so realiable that you likely won't need assistance often. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
First I used to take hand written notes or use to listen the recordings of the meetings for creating MOM, but not anymore. Recently I came across Otter.ai through one of my colleague and since then my workload reagrding MOM and all has become very easy.It takes the whole points and at the end gives you a short summary regarding the whole meeting. ANd it was very easy to integrate and implemnet in my team. We use it in all the meetings for the notes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
If anyonre is not a premium member then they will only have limited monthly minitues of the Otter.ai Notetaker which is a backdraw of it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
My favorite thing about Otter is that I can pay full attention to those I'm connecting with on a call, without having to continuously take notes. Conversations can become more free-flowing, I can ask more questions and find out a lot more information, because I know that Otter will take notes and record an audio transcript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There really aren't too many downsides with Otter, and I can see it's only going to get better as the tech evolves.
Currently, I guess the thing that could be improved is the section within the notes about rhw action points. Sometimes it misses them, so I need to review the part of the conversation to get the full action point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- Summarize calls with key insights, action items & responsibilities
- Record meetings so you can easily share post-call notes, distribute them with other team members & ensure alignment
- If you can't attend a call, you can send your Otter who will provide you with the key takeaways and next steps
- In your settings, you can let Otter know how you want your call notes to be organized and the key insights you want notes around.
- If you forget what was discussed on a call, you always have your Otter recording to go back to. You can listen to it at 1.5x or 2x speed to save time or just read the notes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The only critique, which is minor and I had to dig deeply to get to it, is that on a rare occasion, Otter will mishear a name or word. However, you can then edit the transcript. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- super easy zoom and google cal integration
- automatically joins and transcribes
- live transcription view is awesome
- auto captures images when screens are shared / changed in the call - so transcripts have context
- AI takeaways feature is excellent
- setting it up is as easy as enabling an integration
- handles the volume great - we use it for at least 10 calls every day Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- not as full featured as Gong on the AI side, but price is better
- customer support is not super responsive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Being able to multitask during a meeting that I am not necessarily needed on is ABSOLUTELY invaluable to my productivity.
If I missed something in a live meeting I can always have the live transcription up on another screen and I don't have to ask someone to repeat themselves due to the amazing accuracy of the live transcriptionl
Also, being able to go back and search a keyword for a meeting from 3 weeks ago and then replay the conversation surrounding it brings me immediately back up to speed.
I'm not sure how I ever conducted business efficiently without Otter AI.
(this review was provided as part of a promotion from Otter but also represents my honest opinion from personal use) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The search features are a little tough to navigate at first -- could use a little polish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Otter is a tool that is so integral to our operations that we would not be able to live without it. The ability to automatically record all calls and utilize the AI to extrapolate summaries and remind oneself of what was discussed is paramount to our business.
This review was provided to Otter as part of a promotion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The only thing I dislike is that settings can be a bit confusing, for example one issue we had is that we wanted all calls had by members in a team to automatically fall into a communal bucket so that our VA could access that information. There is no way to do that, you repeatedly have to ask for permissions on every call to share with others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The real-time transcription is highly accurate, and AI summaries save time. Searchable transcripts make reviewing meetings effortless, boosting productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes the transcription accuracy drops with heavy accents or background noise. Also, the free plan has limited features, and the AI summaries could be more customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I liked the idea of it. Until I realized how distracting it was to have a 1:1 but there was this other thing taking up space on the screen in Google Meet. I figured I could get most of the value from Gemini. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I tried to delete my account after I learned that several people in my company, who were part of a large meeting I was an attendee of, were "invited by me" to join Otter.ai. I did no such thing, but many people believed that I had proactively invited them to join. This is explicitly not what I wanted. I tried to delete my account, it said that it was deleted, but I was actually still active. I was in a trial, and I emailed support twice to ask them to permanently delete the account. I never heard back. Then I was charged as my trial ended. Keep in mind that I thought I had closed the account myself originally, but clearly that button just doesn't do anything. I emailed again and this time - after about a week, someone reached out to say that they had completely closed my account. And then today I got an app-based email from them from some meeting that I shouldn't be associated with at all because I shouldn't exist in their application. And yet I do.
Otter.ai is the kind of product that is going to ruin other AI platform's reputation very quickly. This behavior is grifty and full of what seem to be intentional dark patterns to capture and maintain revenue and customer data against their explicit removal of consent. I can't wait to join the class-action lawsuit when it inevitably arrives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
