Otter ai is great for interview transcription and it's so helpful to have so I don't have to manually write out every word a person says.

Bottom line it works! I was amazed at how well it worked even with people with accents: Boston accents, southern drawls (even Texas style), New York accents, Minnesota -you bet, even handles California valley speak). Everything else is meaningless if it can't do its primary function which is to transcribe speech.

I love Otter's low cost and it's integration into any paid Zoom account. It takes a few minutes to setup, but then after that, any time you record a meeting in Zoom, it transcribes the meeting for you, with a high degree of accuracy. Names confuse it some (like how professional services firms tend to be a string of names of people's last names which don't really adhere to any rules) but even when it gets it wrong, editing is quick and easy. The free version is VERY limited in uploads of audio files allowed (only 2-3 files) but the zoom integration, which is super easy, more than makes up for it. Free version allows for 10 hours of audio transcribed per month, which for me is plenty, but even if you're a heavier user pricing is still very inexpensive for the usefulness. If you do interviews for a blog or business, this is super useful.