
Otter.ai recently brought Otter to the education market with Otter for Education, which lets instructors control access to recorded transcripts and complements student disability services and accessibility technologies. Otter.ai also offers a free plan, with 600 minutes of transcription per month and unlimited cloud storage. Otter Pro starts at $8.33 per month, making it only slightly pricier than the company’s business tier, which costs $20 per month. But Otter.ai seeks to differentiate its service with competitive pricing. Otter.ai competes with Microsoft 365, which can host live events with AI-powered features such as facial recognition of attendees and autonomous speech-to-text conversion, as well as meeting transcription tools from Cisco and startups Voicera, Verbit, Trint, Simon Says, and Scribie. Liang had always been frustrated that accents were not understood by natural language processing systems.”

and also optimized to address accents like Liang’s and the billions of English speakers on the planet. “These were especially focused in the early days on English speakers with a variety of accents - regional within the U.S. “Otter’s high accuracy is a result of the algorithms that enable the app to ‘learn,'” a spokesperson told VentureBeat.
