

The closest thing I’ve found to something vaguely useful when it comes to transcription is a site called Otter, which also wins points for its name’s cute factor.

The peculiar turns of phrase they generate can often be hilarious (see also: YouTube auto generated captions on regional accents) occasionally they can even seem poetic, but most of the time, the swathes of inaccuracies and nonsense are just plain irritating. Their advisors include Adam Cheyer (Co-founder of Siri), Lary Heck (Co-founder of Microsoft Cortana), and Greg Holmes (Zoom's first CRO).If you’ve ever tried to use any form of AI-powered speech to text transcription, you’ll likely be aware that for the most part, it can be shonky at best. Additionally, we are backed by legendary angel investor David Cheriton, who provided the initial capital to Larry Page and Sergey Brin to start Google. They are proud to be supported by some of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists who were early investors in Tesla, SpaceX, Slack, and Twitter. The company was founded by successful repeat entrepreneur Sam Liang and fellow engineering Ph.D. Otter is based on proprietary technologies for speech recognition, speaker separation, speaker ID, and keyword/topic extraction. The company's award-winning product, Otter Voice Notes, is used by business professionals, journalists, and students to generate rich notes that can be easily searched and shared. Otter.ai offers a collaborative note-taking app that makes important information from voice conversations including meetings, interviews, and lectures instantly accessible and actionable.
