Mobile · 2018-03-07

Meeting transcribing gets easy with this AI-driven app – New app

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If you are in an industry where you need to deal with interviews as part of your daily routine, you may find this app very helpful.

Otter Voice Meeting Notes App is the latest entry into the transcribing space. This new app lets you record & transcribe meetings in real time. Many journalists, so as doctors & CAs, will agree that transcribing is one of the most boring & arduous activities out there. Nevertheless, it’s important to have a written account of every meeting, source interviews & so many other events.

The app under the parent company AIsense, has been developed by former Google employees & a speech recognition veteran Nuance. Otter is a free service that helps the users to transcribe speech, through artificial intelligence. The app churns out records of the meeting, identifies the speakers, suggests keywords & even allows keyboard searching.

With so many application coming out in this space, the obvious question is – what about privacy? Creators of the app claim that “all the data is stored & moved around securely with no one except the owner having access to it”.

Using the Otter app

To use Otter transcribing app, you tap a microphone icon to begin the recording session. Immediately, a live & raw transcript of the recording begins even as you talk.

After the recording ends, that when the Otter’s AI gets to work. This is where the clean transcript separates the speakers as they take turns to speak. You will receive an automatically-generated transcript in minutes. Plus, you can see & hear who said what, skim & search for the info you need, polish the transcript – all in one place.

How does Otter identify you? As a part of the sign up process, Otter app asks you to read a paragraph so as to learn your voice.

Even though the creators claim the app to be accurate, there are still doubts whether technology in this area will get accurate any time soon, especially with the voice tech. But Otter is said to be working around these glitches.

For now, the app is free. AIsense plans to create a subscription model where users can access extra features.

Click here to download Otter on your Android device.

Click here to download Otter on your iOS device.

– This is a startup profile based on publicly available material & not a review –
Image Credit: Otter

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