Otter
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Adithya Shreshti
Otter — Remember, search, and share your voice conversations
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Otter is a new app that lets you record, transcribe, search and share your voice conversations with your teams. Natively integrated with Zoom.

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Ryan Hoover
Love this space and very interested to explore early stage opportunities in voice/audio as an investor. I'm curious what use cases are emerging for Otter, @goopt?
Sam Liang
@rrhoover Thank you for your interest! We see lots of very broad use cases exist in people's lives. On the high level, almost everybody needs to talk and listen a lot to communicate verbally every day, whether professionally at work or personally. Very specifically, we have seen people use Otter in professional meetings, telephone conferences, online video conferences, classroom lectures, study groups, interviews... the list goes on and on.... We democratize the speech recognition and NLP technologies, and make it easily accessible on a smartphone, so that people can capture they heard anytime anywhere. Otter is differentiated from other voice products, such as Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant. Those are variations of chat-bots, where a robot handles the questions from a human being. In contrast, Otter provides services for human-to-human conversations. People just talk naturally with each other, no need to say any special hot-words like "Siri" or "Allexa", Otter just listens passively and helps people take notes and remember important info.
adam webber
Will you open an API for developers? Thanks :)
John
@adithya This looks like a very nice and welcome introduction to the productivity space, I have seen a couple of similar platforms popping up, who do you see using this, and what do you know about their product roadmap?
Adithya Shreshti
ZD Net mentions Otter AI as "Arguably one of the most important breakthroughs announced at Mobile World Congress 2018" - a must try
Sam Song Liang
There’s No Perfect Transcription App, But Otter Is Getting There https://www.fastcompany.com/4057...
Sam Song Liang
We released a new Otter last week. Otter is now even more accurate, and if you take any pictures during the meeting, they are automatically inlined in the meeting transcript. Get the free app from Apple Appstore or Google Android Playstore!
Pillow John
Just gotta say I tried this with a 128kbit/s audio file of a client session I had today, and it's just such a beautiful webapp. It's so blazing fast and clean and easy. The only issue I had is editing the notes. I hit the pencil, and the edit window opens but the text is un-selectable. I hope beta members get grandfathered in for a free account! I'll def preach the good word.
Davis Baer
@goopt Cool idea. Where do you see the most practical use of Otter right now?
Sam Liang
@daviswbaer Thank you for your interest. As I mentioned in my reply to Ryan, we see people use Otter in all kinds of meetings, whether in-person meetings in conference rooms, or in Starubkcs, or telephone conferences, or video conferences (such as Zoom or Skype). We just came back from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. In that kind of conference, everybody meets a lot of new people. It's really hard to remember all the conversations. This is where Otter can come in handy. Just use Otter to capture all the spontaneous conversations with the 200 people you meet in such a conference, then all the info can be easily searched.
Preetesh Jain
I have a stupid feedback. Shouldn't this be named parrot.ai? 😂 Since parrots seem to copy what humans are saying word to word. Get it? Nevermind.
Sam Liang
@preetesh_jain Otter is one of the smartest animals in the world. The Otter app can already distinguish speaker voices, and can also extract keywords from conversations. It will in the future generate meeting summary. This is much more interesting than just repeating words verbatim.
Rull
This would be so awesome for university lecture halls.
Afanasiy Savvin
Excellent product! Love how fast and accurate it is!
Harold Li
Looks pretty neat. Given the amount of private/confidential information that many use cases would entail though, it's crucial to have much more clarity about how customer data is used, stored, retained, etc. The Privacy Policy barely scratches the surface of this.
Sam Liang

It's really enhancing the way a team handles its meetings

Pros:

Best meeting note and team collaboration app, fast and accurate

Cons:

Some features not easily discoverable

Curtis Zeberlein
The best note taking app since the Livescribe digital pen. (if you ever heard of that) Can't live w/ out this.
April Yang
Low quality audio recording and poor transcription for non-American English speakers.
April Yang
Otter is only good for American English accents. I've worked with and interviewed those with Kenyan, Irish, Ghanaian, and Indian accents and the transcript quality is so poor that it's faster to just transcribe the old school way.
Tim Horan
Otter has changed my worklife for the better. My role requires me to interview multiple people each month to help ideate B2B articles. I used to have to manually transcribe those conversations which was a productivity killer. Now Otter does that work for me, freeing me up for the more creative side of my job.
Rana sheraz
No sound-absorbing material. Too loud. Highly disappointed