An Otter alternative for transcription
Otter.ai or Transcribsi: a meeting assistant against a file-to-text API. $16.99 against $10 a month, 99+ languages against 6.
Otter is a meeting assistant: it records the call, writes the summary and files the tasks. For the words of a recording alone, Transcribsi is the other side: 30 minutes per file, no minute limit, $10 a month with no minute limit, and no bot in the meeting.
Transcribsi and Otter side by side
a transcription service: you upload a file and get text with timecodes
a meeting assistant: it records the call, writes the summary and files the action items
$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card
Basic $0: 300 minutes a month, 3 file imports for life, up to 30 minutes per conversation
$10 a month paid yearly ($120 a year), or $20 a month paid monthly
Pro $16.99 a user a month paid monthly, or $8.33 a month paid yearly; Business $30 a user a month, or $19.99 paid yearly. The page also shows $8.49 and $4.17, and the exact mapping of the monthly and yearly switch is not confirmed
30 minutes
300 minutes a month on Basic, 1,200 on Pro, unlimited meetings on Business; no rollover
any file you upload, up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro
3 imports for life on Basic, 10 a month on Pro, unlimited on Business
up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro
30 minutes per conversation on Basic, 90 minutes on Pro, 4 hours on Business
99+ languages
English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese in the comparison table on the pricing page
the pages of this site are in English
English and Japanese: the hreflang links name en, en-us and ja-jp
TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV, DOCX on Pro
mp3, txt, pdf, docx and srt
llms.txt, llms-full.txt and JSON-LD offers
its llms.txt returns the home page instead of an index, and no JSON-LD was found on the home page
A meeting assistant or a file service
The choice is not about quality, it is about the shape of the work. Otter lives inside the meeting: it joins, it listens, it writes the summary, and the transcript is a by-product of a call that it hosted. We never join anything. A recording arrives as a file, the words come out with their timecodes, and the account of what was said stays yours.
How to move a file to this service
- 1
Decide who joins the call
If a live meeting has to be summarized and turned into tasks, Otter does that inside the call. If the recording already exists, there is nothing to join and the file is enough.
- 2
Take the recording off the meeting
Download the file from the list of cloud recordings and put it on the upload block above. Video files are accepted, so the audio track does not have to be pulled out first.
- 3
Split the voices
Two or more people in the room means two voices to tell apart. Switch on the split by speaker and every line of the transcript names the person who said it.
- 4
Search what was said
Every line carries the start and the end of the words, so the moment with the number or the name is one search away in the app, and CSV puts the same lines into a sheet.
Tips
A recording that already exists does not need a meeting bot.
Download the file; the video track is not a problem.
Name the file after the meeting, not after the day.
Split the speakers before the upload, not after it.
Questions this page answers
Is Otter cheaper than Transcribsi?
Not for a plain transcript. Otter Pro starts at $16.99 a month paid monthly, our Pro is $10 a month paid yearly. The free Basic plan of Otter gives 300 minutes a month, ours gives 3 files a day.
Does Transcribsi join the meeting for me?
No. There is no bot in your call and no account of ours inside Zoom or Meet. You download the recording and upload the file. One thing to know: a pure English file can be sent to a third-party cloud speech provider in the United States, when that fallback is on.
Can Otter transcribe a file I already have?
Yes, it imports files: 3 imports for life on the free plan, 10 a month on Pro, unlimited on Business. We take any file you upload, up to 30 minutes.
How many languages do you support?
Two for recognition: 99+ languages, and a recording that mixes the two is transcribed as it was spoken. The interface of this site is in English, and a language of the interface is a separate thing from a language the engine understands. Otter's pricing table names six.
Sources
- OOtter — pricingotter.ai · checked 22 October 2026
- OOtter — audio to textotter.ai · checked 22 October 2026
- OOtter — aboutotter.ai · checked 22 October 2026
- OOtter — llms.txtotter.ai · checked 21 October 2026
Reading: 7 minutesUpdated Transcribsi editorial team
Drop a recording — the text arrives in a minute
Speakers by name, a time on every line, export to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and Markdown.