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Transcribing a meeting
You want a meeting captured as text, with a summary and action items, without typing notes yourself.
Use
Otter.ai
Otter is the most broadly useful pick: it joins Zoom, Meet, and Teams or transcribes an upload, returns live transcript, speaker labels, a summary and action items, and its free tier of 300 minutes a month covers light use.
Best for
General-purpose live transcription plus summaries and action items.
Input
Live Zoom/Meet/Teams call or uploaded audio/video
Output
Transcript, speaker labels, summary, action items
Availability
Free 300 min/mo; Pro $16.99/user/mo
Use something else if
Use Fathom instead if you want unlimited free recording and summaries
Fathom has a genuinely free tier with unlimited recordings, transcripts, and AI summaries for video calls, strong for sales and customer conversations.
Use Fireflies.ai instead if you need it wired into your CRM and tools
Fireflies records across 10+ conferencing platforms and pushes notes into CRMs and other tools, better when the transcript has to flow into a system.
Alternatives in full
Tool
Best for
Input / output
Pricing
Otter.ai
General live transcription and notes
Live call or upload in, transcript + summary out
Free 300 min/mo; Pro $16.99/user/mo
Fathom
Free unlimited call recording and summaries
Zoom/Meet/Teams call in, recording + summary out
Free forever; Premium $20/mo
Fireflies.ai
CRM and workflow integrations
Call or upload in, notes into your tools out
Free / paid tiers
Related values of X
Verified function, inputs/outputs, and published pricing against each official pricing page on 2026-09-22.