“Notion | AI transcription, summaries, action items and speaker labels | 17 listed languages | Optional. Audio storage must be enabled for ongoing local retention”
“AI transcription, summaries, action items and speaker labels”
“Speaker labelling, however, is currently limited to English.”
“Notion's audio storage is optional and disabled by default for local recordings.”
“Evernote | Audio recording, AI transcription and searchable audio | AI transcription available; check the current language selector | Yes. Audio is embedded in the note”
“Yes. Audio is embedded in the note”
“The recording remains accessible, but transcript playback synchronization may be less central to the experience.”
“Microsoft OneNote | Recording first, transcription afterwards; also offers separate live dictation | Broad Office language support, including German, English, French and Spanish | Yes when using its recording/transcription workflow”
“Offers a large selection of dictation languages.”
“For a Microsoft 365 workflow, OneNote is a natural choice.”
“Some are still marked as preview languages, with potentially lower accuracy.”
“Apple Notes | Convenient, integrated transcription; good for personal notes | 10 listed languages, including German, English, French and Spanish | Yes. Audio and transcript stay together”
“Convenient, integrated transcription; good for personal notes”
“Yes. Audio and transcript stay together”
“You can tap a sentence and listen to the corresponding audio. Useful for checking names, figures and potentially incorrect words.”
“Supports German and English, but transcription availability depends on the iPhone model and device language. Requires iPhone 12 or later for this feature.”
“Otter.ai | Meeting-oriented transcription, speaker recognition and searchable conversations | 17 listed languages, including German, English, French and Japanese | Yes, recordings are associated with conversations”
“Meeting-oriented transcription, speaker recognition and searchable conversations”
“You select the transcription language, and can reprocess an existing recording if necessary.”
“Google Recorder | Strong recording-focused experience, with searchable transcripts and re-transcription | Broad selection, including German, English, Dutch and many others | Yes. Original recording remains available”
“Strong recording-focused experience, with searchable transcripts and re-transcription”
“It offers language selection and language detection, and can transcribe the predominant language in a recording containing multiple languages.”
“Yes. Original recording remains available”