6 Best Otter.ai Alternatives in 2026

Otter is built around one situation: an English-language video call that its notetaker joins. Outside that situation people hit its limits. Its AI transcription covers six languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese. On the free plan a conversation stops at 30 minutes, you can import 3 recorded files in the account’s lifetime, and only the 25 most recent conversations stay visible. And some meetings can’t have a bot in them at all: a client who won’t accept one, a board meeting, an interview at a kitchen table. All figures are from Otter’s pricing page, checked 2026-10-25.

Meetings in the room, with no bot

Otter’s own apps record in person too, so a bot is not the only way to use it. What changes with an alternative is everything around the recording. SozAI never joins a call. You put a phone, iPad or Mac on the table and record, or you upload a file you already have: a voice memo, an interview, a Zoom, Teams or Google Meet recording saved by the platform itself. The transcript comes back with speaker labels and timestamps; you can rename the speakers in the phone app and on the web. Notes, a summary and tasks are made from it in the same place. How to get a recording out of each call platform is on our meeting transcription page; recording in the room is covered on meeting recorder.

Meetings in other languages

Language detection looks at the recording as a whole, so a meeting that keeps switching between two languages is a hard case for it; try one such recording before relying on it. If bilingual meetings are your daily routine, Notta sells a bilingual transcription add-on built for exactly that.