Otter AI adds 27 languages to its meeting transcription platform
Otter.ai is adding 27 languages to its meeting transcription platform, with multilingual switching promised as a follow-up feature.
Otter.ai has announced 27 new languages for its meeting transcription platform, with 13 available immediately and 14 more planned. The expansion also sets up multilingual transcription that can follow a conversation as speakers move between supported languages without requiring someone to change the setting manually. 1
The languages available now are Mandarin Chinese (Simplified), German, Italian, Cantonese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Malay, Dutch, Turkish, Vietnamese and Polish. Otter already supported English, French, Spanish and Japanese, giving users 17 available languages in total once the new additions are included.
The remaining languages are Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Hebrew, Norwegian, Greek, Macedonian, Persian, Czech, Hungarian and Romanian. Otter says the full rollout would take the platform to 31 supported languages.
How the multilingual feature works
Otter says the planned multilingual option will recognise speakers switching between supported languages during one meeting. Its example is a sales call moving from English to Portuguese to Mandarin and back again, with the transcript continuing without manual language changes.
The company says the new languages use speech models trained and run on its own infrastructure rather than being wrapped around a third-party AI service. Otter also says its multilingual support will cover the wider workflow, including summaries, action items, speaker identification, AI Chat, search and follow-up tasks in the supported languages.
The launch is available across Otter's desktop, mobile and browser products, and the company says it comes at no additional cost across its plans. Users can select a supported language in their Otter settings, while the language-switching mode is listed as coming soon. 1
Otter's announcement also includes several claims that need to be read as company-reported figures. It says its English testing averaged 96% accuracy on the Open ASR Leaderboard, and describes more than 40 million users, over 1 billion meetings transcribed and adoption by more than 86% of Fortune 500 companies. Those figures were not independently tested for this report.
Our opinion
This is a practical expansion rather than a flashy chatbot launch. Supporting more languages matters, but the more useful promise is the ability to keep up with a genuinely multilingual meeting without making someone manage transcription settings every few minutes. The catch is that the headline feature is still marked as coming soon, so the immediate update is a broader language menu rather than fully automatic switching. Otter's own accuracy and privacy claims also remain claims from the company, not independent benchmarks.
For international teams already using Otter, the no-extra-cost rollout makes the update easy to try. The real test will be whether the promised switching mode handles accents, overlapping speech and rapid changes between languages as reliably as the announcement suggests.