It has freed me up from sitting down to write notes so it protects my back from too much sitting down. Captures brilliant ideas wherever I am.

Right off the bat, Otter.ai is able to start working for you, making it easy to use, and even though it's simple enough to get started it had a powerful and smart transcription capability. I like how it records your audio AND turns your spoken words into a sharable text format. You can even share the recorded audio which doubles up your content creation. You speak your content, can edit the text within the app, then share to a document format for let's say a blog post, then share the audio as a podcast episode as well as load it as a youtube video. That's three types of content channels from one recording! There's a reason why this app is so popular amongst authors and the share capabilities with multiple formats is a big one, saving so much time to get the content done and start sharing to your marketing and social channels.

My job requires me to make transcriptions of recorded audio. Sometimes the files I transcribe are three to four hours long. Otter helps give me a reasonably accurate transcript that lets me quickly find the specific sound byte I need. After I discovered that sound byte, I could manually transcribe for higher accuracy in my final transcript. I like how Otter is good at separating voices from different speakers.