Otter now follows meetings that switch languages mid-call, and is adding 27 languages

AI note-taker Otter.ai is adding transcription that keeps up when people change languages partway through a meeting, TechCrunch reports. If a call drifts from English into Korean and then Portuguese, Otter is meant to notice each switch and keep going without anyone touching a setting. That switching feature is still on the way.

The languages

Otter is adding 27 languages, its biggest expansion so far, bringing the total to 31 when the rollout finishes.

Live now (13): Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Korean, German, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Dutch, Turkish, Indonesian, Malay and Vietnamese.

Coming soon (14): Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Hindi, Thai, Greek, Macedonian, Czech, Hungarian and Romanian.

Otter built its own speech models for these, which it says were trained on publicly available datasets, with native-speaking volunteers reviewing transcripts for accuracy.

Beyond transcripts

Otter, which raised $320 million from General Catalyst, keeps pushing into broader work tools. Work Mode prepares you for a call using past meetings and connected apps: earlier customer conversations, open action items, teammates' notes from similar calls and recent Google Drive files. Live Assist offers coaching suggestions in real time during a meeting.

Scoreboard update: AI +1. A note-taker learns to follow a meeting across languages without being told.

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