
Right now, I’m in a quiet office, speaking clearly, about eight inches from a quality Blue Yeti microphone to record the words you’re reading. Speech-to-text technology for audio dictation has come a long way, but meeting and call transcription is a wholly more complex problem than dictating a blog post.

Let the AI take meeting notes for you.īut how does meeting transcription work in reality? Is it really better than taking meeting notes by hand? Does AI call transcription live up to the hype? It’s a seductive value proposition: focus on the conversation, on the people at the meeting. Instead of taking meeting notes by hand, transcription offers a handy (and hands-free) alternative. That kind of speed and efficiency are exactly why many professionals turn to meeting transcription software and apps to do their note-taking in meetings. Despite typing 90+ words per minute, voice typing is still faster. I’ve charted my typing speed versus dictation by tracking word counts over 50+ writing sessions. Why am I transcribing audio instead of typing? I write almost 50% faster by voice than by finger. Siri, ever dutiful, transcribes my words and punctuation just as quickly as I speak them, and with few errors. Their advisors include Adam Cheyer (Co-founder of Siri), Lary Heck (Co-founder of Microsoft Cortana), and Greg Holmes (Zoom's first CRO).There’s no question that we’re living in a golden age of audio transcription.Įven as I write this article, I’m not even typing. Additionally, we are backed by legendary angel investor David Cheriton, who provided the initial capital to Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start Google. They are proud to be supported by some of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists who were early investors in Tesla, SpaceX, Slack, and Twitter.

The company was founded by successful repeat entrepreneur Sam Liang and fellow engineering Ph.D. Otter is based on proprietary technologies for speech recognition, speaker separation, speaker ID, and keyword/topic extraction. The company's award-winning product, Otter Voice Notes, is used by business professionals, journalists, and students to generate rich notes that can be easily searched and shared. Otter.ai offers a collaborative note-taking app that makes important information from voice conversations including meetings, interviews, and lectures instantly accessible and actionable.
