Verbato and Otter, side by side
Otter is a meeting notetaker: it joins your calls, transcribes them and writes the summary and the action items. Verbato transcribes a recording you already have and writes the documents you define from it.
Which one fits
Otter fits if your recordings are meetings. Its notetaker joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet, and it sends summaries and action items on to the tools your team uses, such as Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot and Notion.
Verbato fits if your recordings are dictations, interviews, sessions or episodes, and you want a document in your profession's format, in the language of the recording, with the word-for-word transcript beside it to check. Verbato joins no meeting: you send it the recording.
Side by side
| Otter | Verbato | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | “Otter transcribes every meeting, turning it into searchable knowledge that powers your workflow.” | Transcribes a recording and writes the documents you define from it. |
| Who it is for | Sales, education, media and recruiting teams, from individuals to large companies. | Doctors and radiologists, therapists, veterinarians, lawyers, researchers and podcasters. |
| How the recording gets in | A notetaker that joins Zoom, Teams and Google Meet; a desktop app that captures a call without joining it; mobile apps and a Chrome extension; uploaded audio and video files. | For a meeting, the recording: upload it, paste a link, or record in your browser. Also a voice note by Telegram or a recording by email. |
| Languages | English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese. | 80+ languages. The document is written in the language of the recording; its section names are in English or Spanish. |
| What it writes | Meeting summaries with decisions, action items and insights; briefings before a call; follow-ups through its chat. | For a meeting, the clean transcript, the summary, the action items, the decisions log and the next meeting's agenda; and the documents of a profession, or the ones you define. |
| Speakers | Speaker recognition. | Told apart on the paid plans. |
| Getting it out | Audio and text on the free plan; PDF, Word and SRT on the paid ones. Integrations with Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, Notion and others. | The transcript as plain text, Word, PDF, SRT, VTT or JSON; each document as Word, PDF, Markdown or plain text. |
| Transcription by a person | Not found on its pages. | Not offered. |
| How it charges | Per user and per month, billed monthly or yearly, with a monthly allowance of transcription minutes for each user. A free plan; large companies by quote. | By the hour of audio. The free plan has 2 hours of audio a month, with files up to 40 minutes. Documents, corrections and exports are not counted. |
Recording patients or clients? Read what Verbato does with sensitive recordings.