Otter, the AI note-taking app, is adding 27 languages, 13 of them live now. A feature that follows mixed-language calls is still to come.
Otter.ai, the app that records meetings and turns them into written notes, is adding support for 27 languages. Thirteen work today. The rest are listed as coming soon. Once the rollout finishes, Otter will cover 31 languages in total. The company also previewed a feature that can follow a call as people switch between languages.
Otter announced the update on Tuesday and called it its largest language expansion to date. The 13 languages available now are Mandarin Chinese, Korean, German, Italian, Cantonese, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Malay, Dutch, Turkish, Vietnamese and Polish.
Fourteen more languages are listed as coming soon: Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Hebrew, Norwegian, Greek, Macedonian, Persian, Czech, Hungarian and Romanian.
The mixed-language feature is also upcoming. It is meant to notice when speakers change languages and keep writing notes without anyone touching a setting. Otter's example is a call that moves from English to Korean to Portuguese.
The new languages run on Otter's own speech models, meaning the software that turns spoken words into text. Otter says it trained them on publicly available datasets. It also worked with native-speaking volunteers who reviewed transcripts and checked accuracy.
Teams and businesses that talk with colleagues or customers in several languages are the main audience. If your meetings happen in one of the 13 live languages, you may be able to get usable notes without hiring a separate transcriber. Otter says the goal is to make the tool more useful for international teams.
The move fits a wider push. Otter has been growing beyond transcription since its $320 million funding from General Catalyst. It recently added Work Mode, which uses past meetings and connected apps to help you prepare for calls. It also added Live Assist, which offers suggestions during a meeting.
Only 13 of the new languages work today, so check that yours is live before you rely on Otter for multilingual meetings.
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