Instead of Otter.ai
Meeting transcription with speaker labels and a summary.
Worth the work
Whisper runs locally and transcribes better than Otter did two years ago. What you lose is the bot that joins the call.
You lose: The bot that joins the meeting, and speaker labels that come out right.
Start here
Whisper
Accurate transcription from a file. You record the meeting yourself first.
A compose file, a domain and a reverse proxy.
Also worth a look
- WhisperX
Whisper plus word-level timing and speaker diarisation. More setup, better transcripts.
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