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

> Thirteen are live today, 14 more are coming, for 31 in total. The new languages run on Otter's own speech models.

- URL: https://devisdead.ai/news/otter-now-follows-meetings-that-switch-languages-mid-call-and-is-adding-27-langu
- Published: 2026-11-10T10:28:36Z
- Author: DevIsDead Newsroom
- Section: AI
- Tags: otter, transcription, speech, languages
- Originally reported by TechCrunch (https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/otter-ai-can-now-follow-conversations-across-30-languages/).

AI note-taker Otter.ai is adding transcription that keeps up when people change languages partway through a meeting, [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/otter-ai-can-now-follow-conversations-across-30-languages/) 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](/scoreboard) update:** AI +1. A note-taker learns to follow a meeting across languages without being told.

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