Getting less attention, though, are voice transcriptions - tech that takes a recording of people talking and turns it into text - even though that kind of technology could be transformative for people across different needs and professions. But companies like Amazon, Google and Apple are mostly zeroed in on voice-command assistants like Alexa or Siri, premised on the bet that voice interaction will become the next stage of computing. Voice is an obsession of tech giants right now. Otter, a new, free mobile app from a team of vets from Google and speech-recognition company Nuance, aims to make voice transcriptions become as easy and accessible as typing into a Google Doc.

The company developed and owns its proprietary stack, including automated speech recognition, speaker separation (known as ‘diarization’) and identification, word synchronisation and summarisation.If you don't hate transcribing, it's probably just because you don't have to do it very much. Users log into Otter.ai to highlight, comment and add photos to the live meeting notes.Īlthough basic Otter.ai is free, meeting hosts require the Otter for Teams subscription for this kind of functionality. Otter.ai Live Video Meeting Notes Zoom integration allows all meeting participants to open the Otter.ai Live Transcript in the LIVE menu at the top of a Zoom window. Otter for Teams is mobile business-level application with shared speaker voiceprints, centralised billing, reporting on usage statistics and two-factor authentication. Otter suggests that its Live Video Meeting Notes might prove useful for business users without daycare or school support who are juggling back-to-back video meetings, may not be able to join a meeting, or want to refer later to the meeting notes. “Otter has transcribed more than 25 million meetings, accounting for more than 750 million transcribed meeting minutes to date.” Daddy daycare, done digital “Virtual meetings skyrocketed during the COVID-19 outbreak organisations recognise that high-quality voice meeting notes are a critical tool for employee productivity when collaborating within an office or in any virtual meeting,” said Sam Liang, CEO and founder of Otter.ai. It is available in its ‘Otter for Teams’ and ‘Zoom Pro’ subscriber ranks, or higher. So basically this is a way of offering the same real-time features available in Otter Voice Meeting Notes, launched directly from a video conferencing platform.

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