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🎙️ AI Meeting Notes and Transcription Tools (5)
Letting AI automatically transcribe and organise notes during meetings, user interviews or lectures is one of the AI use cases that shows results immediately. This list compiles meeting recording and transcription tools collected by the site and adds recently related new tools from the hot list.
Data updated Oct 18, 2026 · Prices not verified; check official websites
1. Granola
AI meeting notes that automatically organise minutes. Key features include: AI automatically organises meeting notes; Generates structured meeting summaries. Suitable for users who need to record user interviews and various meetings, helping to quickly organise meeting content.
Granola: full overview and alternatives → · Official website / project page
2. Tongyi Tingwu
Alibaba's audio/video transcription and summarisation. Key features include: Support automatic transcription of audio and video content; Use large models to generate notes from audio and video; Help organise and analyse meeting records. Suitable for professionals, students and researchers who need to transcribe and summarise meetings, lectures or study recordings, especially in Mandarin.
Tongyi Tingwu: full overview and alternatives → · Official website / project page
3. Otter.ai
AI meeting transcription and note-taking tool. Key features include: Supports real-time meeting transcription; Provides real-time chat functionality; Automatically generates meeting summaries. Suitable for individuals and teams who need to record English meetings, generate minutes and action items.
Otter.ai: full overview and alternatives → · Official website / project page
4. Hintly for Google Meet™
Hintly for Google Meet is a real-time prompting tool that provides instant hints for every term you miss during Google Meet calls. Key features include: Detects missed terms, names and concepts in real time during Google Meet meetings; Provides instant explanations and hints immediately after they are mentioned. For participants who frequently encounter specialist terminology in Google Meet and need to understand content quickly.
Hintly for Google Meet™: full overview and alternatives → · Official website / project page
5. simul-subtitle
A real-time video and live streaming subtitle tool supporting Japanese and English, with floating subtitles. It runs on Android, macOS and Windows, uses local offline speech recognition, and supports user-provided LLMs for translation (BYOK). Key features include: Real-time subtitles for Japanese and English videos and live streams, with floating display that can sit above any player or streaming software; Uses local offline speech recognition with built-in ReazonSpeech and Silero VAD models; audio never leaves the device; Supports user-provided OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoints for translation, with the ability to save multiple configurations and automatically disable reasoning mode. Suitable for users who need to watch Japanese or English videos and live streams in real time, especially when using various players or streaming software on Android, macOS or Windows.
simul-subtitle: full overview and alternatives → · Official website / project page
FAQ
Which tools are recommended in “AI Meeting Notes and Transcription Tools”?
This list includes 5 tools: Granola, Tongyi Tingwu, Otter.ai, Hintly for Google Meet™, simul-subtitle. Editor's picks: Granola, Tongyi Tingwu, Otter.ai. From the AI Hot List (updated every 6 hours): Hintly for Google Meet™, simul-subtitle.
What is each of these tools best for?
Granola: User interviews and meeting records; Tongyi Tingwu: Meeting transcription, strongest for Mandarin; Otter.ai: English meeting notes.
Are these tools free?
Prices and free tiers change often and this site has not verified them one by one. Please check each tool's official website. simul-subtitle are published openly on GitHub / Hugging Face; see their project pages for licence and usage details.
How often is this list updated?
The curated part is maintained by our editors; the hot-list part updates automatically with the AI Hot List every 6 hours. This data was last updated on Oct 18, 2026.
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