Tools · 2026-11-10

Otter.ai can now follow meetings where people switch between languages

The Otter.ai meeting notetaking service has added support for 27 new languages and will soon follow conversations even when participants switch from one language to another.

✨ What's new

Otter.ai, an AI-powered tool that records conversations and turns them into text, announced a major expansion of its language support. Once the rollout is complete, the service will support 31 languages, 27 more than before. It is the company's largest language expansion to date.

A separate new feature, multilingual transcription, automatically detects when a speaker changes language and keeps transcribing without manual settings. For example, a conversation can start in English, move to Korean, and then to Portuguese, and Otter will keep up with each switch.

📌 Which languages are available

Thirteen languages are available now: Mandarin Chinese, Korean, German, Italian, Cantonese, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Malay, Dutch, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Polish.

Fourteen more are coming soon: Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Hebrew, Norwegian, Greek, Macedonian, Persian, Czech, Hungarian, and Romanian.

Ukrainian does not appear in the list provided by the source, so Ukrainian users should check language support directly in the app.

🔹 How it works and why it matters

Otter's new languages run on the company's own speech models. According to the company, they were trained on publicly available datasets, and native-speaking volunteers reviewed transcripts to check accuracy.

The update is meant to help international teams for whom language differences make meetings and collaboration harder. The company is also building other features: Work Mode helps users prepare for upcoming calls, and Live Assist offers suggestions during conversations.

Sources: 🔗 TechCrunch — AI