Otter AI can now follow conversations across 30+ languages

Summary

• Otter.ai announced a new multilingual transcription feature that automatically detects and transcribes conversations as speakers switch between languages during a single meeting.
• The platform is adding support for 27 new languages, bringing the total supported languages to 31 upon completion of the rollout.
• Thirteen new languages are available immediately: Mandarin Chinese, Korean, German, Italian, Cantonese, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Malay, Dutch, Turkish, Vietnamese, & Polish.
• Fourteen additional languages are coming soon: Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Hebrew, Norwegian, Greek, Macedonian, Persian, Czech, Hungarian, & Romanian.
• The new languages run on Otter's proprietary speech models, which were trained using publicly available datasets & reviewed by native-speaking volunteers for accuracy.
• The update aims to address collaboration challenges for global teams by removing language barriers in voice AI communication.
• Otter continues expanding beyond transcription into other workplace AI tools following a $320 million funding round from General Catalyst.
• The company recently introduced Work Mode, which uses meeting history & connected apps to help users prepare for upcoming calls by pulling data from previous conversations, action items, teammate notes, & Google Drive files.
• Another recent addition is Live Assist, which provides real-time coaching during meetings by analyzing the conversation to offer relevant suggestions based on current & past discussion topics.