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?
@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.
@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?
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!
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.
@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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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