

As part of your sign-up process, Otter takes a "voiceprint" of you by asking you to read a five-paragraph statement so it can learn your voice and specifically identify you next to the passages you spoke.

After processing, the cleaned-up transcript separates speakers as they take turns talking. It's after that recording ends that Otter'sĬan really do its work. To use Otter, you tap a microphone icon to begin a recording, and almost immediately, a live raw transcript of what you're saying begins to unspool in front of you. A few years ago, this system wouldn't be usable." "With AI tech and deep learning in the last few years, the accuracy for speech recognition has improved dramatically.

"This is a perfect time," said Sam Liang, CEO and founder of AISense, the company behind Otter. Otter is a free mobile app aiming to make transcription simple and easy.
