European alternatives to Otter

Otter is the AI notetaker most people have actually met — usually as a bot that appeared in a call they were already in. It connects to a work calendar, joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet meetings automatically, captions them live, and leaves behind a transcript with speaker labels, a summary and extracted action items.

What makes it hard to leave is not the transcription. It is that the transcripts accumulate into a searchable record of everything the team has said, with each decision traceable to the meeting it was made in. Export gives you the text; it does not give you the search index, the speaker voiceprints, or the channel integrations that put notes into Slack and the CRM.

The free tier is the other half of the lock-in: 300 minutes a month, live transcription included, no card. Most European alternatives match the features and then ask to be paid for the volume Otter gives away, so the switching cost shows up on the invoice rather than in the feature table.

Otter.ai, Inc. is based in Mountain View, California, and processes audio in the United States.