According to reports, AI meeting transcription tool Otter.ai has announced an expansion of multilingual capabilities, adding support for 27 new languages and introducing a multilingual transcription feature capable of detecting language switches. Once launched, this functionality will allow Otter to automatically transcribe conversations across language shifts—such as between English, Korean, and Portuguese—within a single meeting without requiring manual configuration; upon completion of all updates, the platform will support a total of 31 languages.

Currently, 13 languages are already available, including Mandarin Chinese, Korean, German, Italian, Cantonese, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Malay, Dutch, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Polish, with the remaining 14 languages to be rolled out progressively. The newly added languages are powered by Otter’s proprietary speech recognition models, trained on publicly available datasets and verified for accuracy by native-speaking volunteer reviewers. This update targets the transcription and collaboration needs of global teams, complementing Otter’s previously launched Work Mode, which integrates meeting history with connected applications, and Live Assist, which delivers real-time meeting recommendations.