Otter.ai is moving beyond transcription—and deeper into your workday
With 3 new AI features and $320 million in fresh funding, Otter is betting it can make workplace meetings more productive. But its ambitions raise familiar questions about privacy.
Eight years ago, Otter.ai’s pitch for its transcription app was pretty straightforward: The Mountain View, California-based startup would turn audio into readable text in real time. And it would do it for free. But in 2026, the company is now competing against a chorus of competitors that all leverage AI to provide real-time transcription. Otter’s answer to that challenge amounts to changing the channel—to go beyond transcribing to extracting insights from all that banter.
