Upload a Zoom MP4, a Teams recording, or a Meet export. Get a speaker-labeled, timestamped transcript ready for action-item extraction. $1/hour, no seats, private by default.
Built for meetings, retros, and customer calls
Not a bot in your calendar. A fast path from "we recorded it" to "here are the action items."
Zoom cloud MP4, Zoom local M4A, Teams recording, Google Meet export, or an .m4a from a phone — drop the file in, we take it from there. No integration to install.
Even on a single-track Zoom mixdown, we label Speaker 1, Speaker 2, etc. on every turn. If you have separate per-participant tracks, accuracy is higher still.
Clean speaker-labeled TXT or DOCX. Paste into Claude or ChatGPT with "extract action items with owners and timestamps" — you have a ready summary. We do not auto-run an LLM on your transcripts; you control that step.
$1 per hour of audio. A team of 5 recording 2 hours/week each pays for 10 hours of audio ($10/week) — not 5 seats. Credits do not expire.
A quarter of sales or research calls becomes a searchable archive. Grep a feature name, a date, or a customer name; jump to the exact timestamp in the recording.
Open-source Whisper on private infrastructure. Recordings never sent to OpenAI, Google, or any third-party transcription service. No training on your uploads. Delete files anytime.
Side-by-side
Otter joins meetings as a bot. Whipscribe transcribes what you already recorded. Two different jobs.
| Feature | Whipscribe | Otter.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Meeting-bot in Zoom/Teams/Meet | Not offered today | Included on all tiers per otter.ai/pricing (checked 2026-04-23) |
| Transcribe existing recordings | Drop MP4/M4A — done | Requires signed-in account; 3 lifetime free imports per otter.ai/pricing (checked 2026-04-23) |
| Pricing model | $1/hour PAYG, no seats | Seat subscriptions — Pro $8.33/user/mo annual per otter.ai/pricing (checked 2026-04-23) |
| Diarization | Per-turn speaker labels | Speaker identification per otter.ai/features (checked 2026-04-23) |
| Languages | 100+ via Whisper | English, French, or Spanish per otter.ai/pricing (checked 2026-04-23) |
| Action items / summaries | Paste transcript to your LLM of choice | Built-in AI summary per otter.ai/features (checked 2026-04-23) |
Evidence rows live in transcripto_legal/content_audit/_tools_claims_evidence.jsonl. Full breakdown on the Otter alternative page.
Questions operators ask first
No. We transcribe recordings you already have. For live bot-in-the-meeting workflows, Otter or Fireflies fit. If you already record, Whipscribe is faster and cheaper.
Yes — paste the clean transcript into Claude or ChatGPT with an action-item prompt. We do not auto-run an LLM on your transcripts; you control when and where that runs.
Yes. Per-turn speaker labels on mixed audio. Per-participant tracks yield higher accuracy if available.
No. $1 per hour of audio, pay-as-you-go, no seats, credits do not expire.
Yes. Private Whisper, no third-party transcription service in the path, no training on your uploads. Delete anytime.
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