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Otter.ai
by Otter.ai
Otter.ai is an AI meeting assistant that records and transcribes calls in real time, generating a searchable transcript with speaker labels, a condensed summary, and action items. It integrates natively with Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams, and syncs notes to Slack and Notion automatically. Teams in sales, research, and media use Otter to capture institutional knowledge from every conversation.
Otter.ai features and capabilities, including which plan they need and how they compare in the CanIUse matrix.
otter-aiAdded 2025-09-21Catalog rank 9
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✨ Modalities
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Yes, requires free plan. Otter Chat and the transcript editor take typed questions over meeting notes.Text Input
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No. Meeting transcription, not a vision model.Image Upload / Vision
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No. Does not generate images.Image Generation
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Partial. Live captions and spoken meetings. It is not a two-way voice assistant like ChatGPT Voice.Voice Mode
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No. Joins Zoom/Meet/Teams for audio. It does not watch the video track as a vision model.Video Understanding
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No. Not a video generation product.Video Generation
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Partial. You can import audio/video of meetings. Not a general PDF knowledge base.File Upload (PDF, DOCX)
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No. Not a code sandbox.Code Execution
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Yes, requires free plan. Core product: live and recorded meeting transcription. Basic includes 300 minutes/month.Audio Input
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No. Transcript editor, not a canvas/artifacts UI.Canvas / Artifact Editor
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No. No computer-use takeover.Screen Sharing / Computer Use
🧠 Memory & Context
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Partial. Otter Chat over your meeting library. That is search over transcripts, not a personal-facts memory profile.Persistent Memory
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No. Not an LLM context-window product. Limits are minutes, not tokens.Large Context Window
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Unknown. Custom vocabulary/vocabulary was not re-checked on the 2026 pricing page.Custom Instructions
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Yes, requires free plan. Meetings and chats are saved in your Otter account.Conversation History
🔌 Integrations
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No. Searches your meetings, not the live web.Web Search / Browsing
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Partial. Zoom/Meet/Teams plus Zapier and an MCP server. Not a GPT-style plugin store.Plugins / Extensions
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Unknown. An Otter developer API was not confirmed on the pricing page this round.API Access
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Yes, requires plus plan. Zapier is listed on paid/Basic materials as a meeting-notes automation path.Zapier Integration
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No. No custom-GPT store.Custom GPTs / Bots
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Partial. Shared meetings and live notes. Not a multiplayer AI document.Real-time Collaboration
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No. No live social firehose.Live Social Data Integration
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No. Citations are to your meeting, not the academic web.Live Citation Mapping
👨💻 Developer
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Partial. MCP server is listed. That is tool access for assistants, not a public function-calling chat API.Function Calling
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Yes, requires free plan. Live captions stream as people talk.Streaming Responses
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No. You do not train Otter’s speech model.Fine-Tuning
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No. Not an embeddings API.Embeddings API
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Partial. Summaries, action items, and speakers. Not arbitrary JSON schema.Structured Output (JSON)
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No. Not an LLM reasoning-mode product.Reasoning / Thinking Mode
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No. Cloud SaaS. Desktop recorder still sends audio to Otter.Local Execution
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No. Closed speech models.Open Weights
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No. Not an orchestrator.Multi-Agent Orchestration
📱 Platforms
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Yes, requires free plan. otter.ai web app for notes and Otter Chat.Web App
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Yes, requires free plan. Official iOS app.iOS App
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Yes, requires free plan. Official Android app.Android App
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Yes, requires free plan. Bot-free desktop recorder is advertised.Desktop App
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Yes, requires free plan. Chrome capture extension.Chrome Extension
🔒 Privacy
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Unknown. Needs a current DPA read. Not asserted from the marketing homepage.GDPR Compliant
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Unknown. Training-use toggle was not checked on a privacy policy this round.Opt Out of Data Training
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Yes, requires enterprise plan. Enterprise adds SSO, SCIM, and a HIPAA add-on on the pricing page.Enterprise Privacy Mode
💼 Workspaces
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Partial. Meetings can be organized; workspace folders on paid were not fully mapped.Projects / Folders