Otter.ai

Otter.ai turns speech into text. It can join Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls to transcribe them live, or transcribe recordings you upload. Each transcript is labeled by speaker and is searchable, and Otter writes a summary and a list of action items after a meeting.

Writers and journalists use it to get interview audio into text quickly, then pull quotes and rework them into an article. Teams use it for meeting notes. It runs on the web and in mobile apps, and has a free tier with limits on minutes.

Check quotes against the audio before you publish: names, numbers and accents are where transcription errors cluster. Tell people when a recorder is running, since some places require consent from everyone on a call.