Otter.ai Announces Its Biggest Multilingual Leap Yet: 27 New Languages and Multilingual Capabilities

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 10, 2026--

Otter.ai, the company behind the leading AI notetaker and conversational knowledge platform, today announced the largest multilingual expansion in its history: 27 new languages, 13 available today and 14 coming soon, and multilingual transcription that recognizes and transcribes conversations as speakers move between languages, all within a single meeting.

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Global teams rarely work in just one language: Capterra’s 2024 Collaboration and Productivity Survey found that 42% of international knowledge workers named language barriers as one of their top challenges when collaborating. That’s why Otter is expanding now, and why it is doing so deliberately. Unlike other notetakers, Otter’s speech models are trained, tuned, and run by Otter on its own infrastructure, not wrapped around a third-party AI service, so each new language can be built with the accuracy teams need to trust their notes.

27 new languages

In addition to the four existing languages (English, French, Spanish, and Japanese), Otter now supports 13 new languages: Mandarin Chinese (Simplified), German, Italian, Cantonese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), 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. Once all are live, Otter will support a total of 31 languages.

Meetings don’t stay in one language, and neither should the transcript. Coming soon, Otter’s multilingual option will follow conversations as they unfold, transcribing accurately as participants switch between supported languages, with no manual setting changes. For example, a sales call can move from English to Portuguese to Mandarin and back without anyone pausing to change a language setting.

Because Otter builds and runs each language model in-house, it can account for what makes each one distinct. In English benchmark testing, Otter averaged 96% accuracy on the Open ASR Leaderboard. Otter also does not send your audio to third parties for processing, a commitment that has held for over a decade and now extends to every new language as it becomes available.

A complete workflow in every supported language

Otter’s new languages work across the whole workflow, not just the transcript. Before the call, Work Mode, one of Otter’s newest capabilities, pulls past conversations and connected apps into a brief. During it, summaries, action items, speaker identification, AI Chat, and search work across supported languages. Afterward, Work Mode turns the conversation into follow-up emails and CRM updates, in whichever language the meeting happened.

“Many large international companies are already using Otter to improve collaboration and productivity for teams in different time zones and speaking multiple languages,” said Sam Liang, co-founder and CEO of Otter.ai. “We built our speech recognition in-house from the beginning, so we can build every language the right way, with leading accuracy and private audio. That’s what lets us bring 27 new languages to Otter.”

Availability

Users can select a supported language in their Otter settings. The new languages come at no additional cost across Otter plans and are available across desktop, mobile, and browser. For details on supported languages and how to select one, visit here. Don’t see yours? Request a language.

About Otter.ai

Otter.ai is the AI notetaker and conversation knowledge engine for the modern enterprise. With over 40 million users, including more than 86% of the Fortune 500, and 1 billion+ meetings transcribed, Otter captures, connects, and activates the knowledge from every conversation. Otter’s proprietary ASR and speaker identification, built in-house, deliver industry-leading accuracy, turning meetings into searchable intelligence, automated action items, and agentic workflows that sync directly to the tools teams already use. Backed by Spectrum Equity, Horizon Ventures, and Draper Associates, and most recently General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund (CVF) with $320 million in growth financing. Otter.ai is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Korean leads 13 new languages available today, plus 14 more coming soon and transcription that keeps up when speakers switch languages mid-meeting.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sometime before tipoff Monday night, Jimmy Butler stopped in Golden State's equipment room and inquired about wearing the same uniform as the Warriors coaching staff for a game against New Orleans.

They had the sweater in his size and one to spare, and he surprised everybody with his attire. The injured guard got his hands on a clipboard, too.

Coach Butler wrote one important message on it: “PASS TO STEPH.”

And Curry scored 25 points in the 138-87 victory that gave Golden State an eight-game winning streak, so perhaps it will be considered pure genius.

In fact, coach Steve Kerr had already thought of it but didn't know Butler would pull it off — such a big change from Butler’s typical bold and loud attire on the bench.

“It was funny because I don't know how this happened but I told (assistant coach) Khalid (Robinson) about five minutes before the game, I told Khalid ‘one of these days we should have Jimmy dress up like us,' ‘cuz he’s always got some great outfit on and something fashionable and we wear our quarter-zips and sweaters. I said, ‘We should really get him to dress like a coach one day’ and then he walks out and he's dressed like us. I turned to Khalid I said, ‘Did you tell him to do that?’ and he goes, ‘No.’ It was I guess mental telepathy or something. We're on the same page on that. He was enjoying himself.”

Butler caught rookie Yaxel Lendeborg off guard.

Lendeborg went looking for associate head coach Frank Vogel to ask a question during the first timeout when he saw Butler and asked him what he was wearing.

“I didn't realize that all the coaches wore the same thing until today, which is weird because I see them every single day,” Lendeborg said. “It was kind of funny just in the moment. He was on the bench joking around the whole time, grabbing Melt (De'Anthony Melton) by the jersey, talking about get the ball to Steph. It's real funny being able to have that kind of character and attitude on the court or on the bench. It was nice to see that.”

Lendeborg has appreciated Butler's wisdom while he recovers from surgery in February on his right knee for a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

"For me especially he's always just giving me little tips and tricks on the court.

But in this case the message was simple: “Just give the ball to Steph, that's the most serious thing he said,” Lendeborg said with a grin.

See AP’s full NBA coverage here

Golden State Warriors forward Yaxel Lendeborg (1) reacts during overtime of an NBA basketball game against the Orlando Magic, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Justine Willard)