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Automatic Live Captions for Zoom with Otter.ai
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Productivity Hacks
5 Common Challenges of Online Learning & How to Overcome Them
While teachers have to deal with many new challenges in a virtual classroom, students also have to overcome the challenges of online learning...
Chang Chen
October 16, 2020
Customer Stories
Featured Business Student - Neil Mascarenhas
Online learning has become the norm since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the lack of face-to-face interaction has proved to be difficult...
Chang Chen
October 14, 2020
Productivity Hacks
6 Essential Tips to Run an Effective Virtual Meeting
Virtual meetings require a much different approach than in-person gatherings. As the need for remote meetings increases, project managers...
Chang Chen
October 1, 2020
Customer Stories
Featured Student – Andrea Bossi
Meet Andrea Bossi. She’s a student, and a journalist, who began using Otter after hearing about it through a friend. Much of her time is spent...
Chang Chen
October 1, 2020
Productivity Hacks
5 Online Learning Strategies & Tips for Successful Students
The need for effective online learning strategies has never been greater. As more students transition to online education, both online teachers...
Chang Chen
September 25, 2020
Productivity Hacks
Online Teaching Tips & Techniques for the Virtual Classroom
It’s unclear if the transition to online education will be permanent, but it seems that the future of learning is at least partially remote...
Chang Chen
September 17, 2020
Productivity Hacks
5 Benefits of Online Education
As more business and academic activities move to the digital sphere, more and more students look to online resources for their...
Chang Chen
September 10, 2020
Customer Stories
Featured PhD Candidate – Tammy Clemons
Tammy Clemons is a PhD candidate pursuing her doctorate in cultural anthropology. Before finding Otter, Tammy had a lot of experience with...
Chang Chen
September 8, 2020
Productivity Hacks
Zoom Transcription: How to Create a Conference Call Transcription (With One Simple Tool)
Zoom is a secure and reliable video conference tool. It offers a wide variety of features, making it easy for coworkers to communicate and...
Chang Chen
August 31, 2020
Product Update
Live transcribe Zoom Webinars with Otter.ai
Otter.ai live transcription and meeting notes assistant for Zoom Pro, Business, and Enterprise (English only)
Simon Lau
August 19, 2020
Productivity Hacks
How Otter.ai Is Helping Companies Transition to Remote Work and Distributed Teams
According to research from Global Workplace Analytics, the number of US employees working remotely increased by 44% in the last five...
Chang Chen
August 13, 2020
Productivity Hacks
How to Add Captions to Video (Add Subtitles With One Simple Tool)
Creating quality video content or presentations requires a lot more than a camera and a tripod. You need to have a design plan in mind before...
Chang Chen
August 11, 2020
Productivity Hacks
The Ultimate Guide to Recording Interviews, In Person and Online
For a number of professions, conducting interviews is an essential part of the job. Journalists, researchers, entertainers, students and even...
Chang Chen
August 6, 2020
Productivity Hacks
How to Video Conference From Home
The global lockdown has accelerated the trend toward working remotely, and it seems that now it’s here to stay. This transition brings...
Chang Chen
August 4, 2020
Productivity Hacks
How To Host a Webinar: 8 Tips for Successful Webinars
Webinars have become essential to the modern workplace. They differ from video conferences in that they serve as a means of participation...
Chang Chen
July 13, 2020
Customer Stories
Featured Entrepreneur - Jason Gurwin
ason Gurwin is a co-founder of the site, The Streamable, a news and review site that concentrates on the world of streaming services and...
Joel Gershon
June 14, 2020
Customer Stories
Featured Freelance Management Consultant - Paul Rogers
Professional freelancers enjoy the flexibility of being their own boss, providing services to a variety of clients without being tethered to...
Chang Chen
June 9, 2020
Productivity Hacks
How Otter.ai is helping students and teachers transition to distance learning
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, just about every sector of society has undergone changes. But few people have felt...
Chang Chen
May 22, 2020
Product Update
How to configure SAML single sign-on (SSO) in Otter.ai
SAML-based single sign-on (SSO) gives members access to Otter through an identity provider (IDP) of your choice.
Dennis Park
May 11, 2020
Productivity Hacks
Zoom Transcription Services For Remote Meetings
Zoom Transcription Services For Remote Meetings
Chang Chen
April 28, 2020
Productivity Hacks
10 tools that help journalists work better and faster
You’re a journalist and you’re busy. That’s practically a tautology. How can you be a journalist these days and...
Tanya Mozias Slavin
April 21, 2020
Product Update
Live transcribe Zoom meetings with Otter.ai
Work from home productively – At a time when most meetings, events, and classes have gone virtual, remote workers and students struggle to listen...
Simon Lau
April 12, 2020
Product Update
Live transcribe Zoom with Otter.ai
At a time when most meetings, events, and classes have gone virtual, remote workers and students struggle to listen and pay attention while taking...
Simon Lau
April 12, 2020
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Productivity Hacks
A Complete Guide to Writing Interview Transcripts (With Tools Comparison And Free Transcript Examples)
A transcript of an interview offers an organized and accessible record of everything that was said. This puts it head and shoulders above recorded...
Chang Chen
March 24, 2020
Customer Stories
Featured UX designer - Heather Applegate
Heather Applegate, a UX design lead for a mobile team in Chicago, frequently consults with a variety of airplane and pharmaceutical companies...
Chang Chen
March 17, 2020
Productivity Hacks
Love It or Hate It: Here’s What You Need to Know About Working From Home
There are plenty of reasons you might find yourself considering the option of working from home. The recent coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak...
Chang Chen
March 8, 2020
Customer Stories
Featured UX Designer: Peter Kattan
Attending meetings, conferences, and events is a business staple for professionals around the world. And no matter the industry, taking accurate...
Chang Chen
March 5, 2020
Productivity Hacks
How To Write Effective Meeting Notes (With Templates And Samples)
hether you contribute to intense marketing meetings or you’re tasked with recording official board or committee meetings, taking effective...
Chang Chen
March 3, 2020
Productivity Hacks
10 Ways Entrepreneurs Use Automated Meeting Note-taker To Build Their Companies
Starting a business is exhausting. Coming up with a viable business model is difficult enough, but having to chase down clients...
James Chadwick
February 13, 2020
Customer Stories
Featured Entrepreneur - Kevin McCann
Otter can help business professionals working across a wide range of categories. Kevin McCann does consulting with clients, and has found that...
Chang Chen
February 13, 2020
Productivity Hacks
5 Tips to Overcoming Objections in Meetings
You're sitting around a table with a group of your colleagues. You have a well-planned outline of what to talk about. You believe...
James Chadwick
January 30, 2020
Productivity Hacks
10 Ways Teams Use an AI-powered Meeting Note-taker to Improve Meetings
You’re busy. With a million things to do, meetings can sometimes seem like an intrusion on your workday. You want to get...
James Chadwick
January 23, 2020
Customer Stories
Featured Journalist - Michael Brein
Michael Brein earned his Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Hawaii and has had a college teaching career after that for more than 20...
Michael Brein
December 3, 2019
Product Update
Personalize Otter.ai with Custom Vocabulary to Boost Accuracy
You can teach Otter.ai proper names, jargon, acronyms, and unique name spellings with Custom Vocabulary – a paid features in Otter Premium and...
Simon Lau
November 22, 2019
Customer Stories
Featured UX Designer - Tina Bizaca
One of the most important aspects of software development is user experience (UX) design. With the intention of understanding and responding to how...
Chang Chen
November 19, 2019
Customer Stories
Featured Marketer - Dupe Ajayi
Dupe Ajayi has been deeply entrenched in the digital world as a marketer for more than ten years, working in such positions as Digital...
Joel Gershon
November 12, 2019
Product Update
Otter’s new Highlight Summary feature turns your meeting notes into a summary that you can share
One of the most requested features is now available! This simple but effective feature ‘ottermagically’ creates a summary of all your highlights...
Dennis Park
November 7, 2019
Productivity Hacks
How Students Are Using Otter In and Out of the Classroom
The first day of a new semester is the perfect time to get a head start with good study habits. Some students take out old-school lined notebooks...
Sydney Kuntz
November 3, 2019
Customer Stories
Featured UX Designer - Emilio Harrison
Emilio Harrison is a User Experience Designer pursuing an Associate of Applied Science at Austin Community College. He learned about Otter from...
Sydney Kuntz
October 28, 2019
Customer Stories
Featured Student - Patricio Henriquez
Between homework, research, exams and more, college is hard for everyone. Most international students have the added challenge of having to do all...
Sydney Kuntz
October 21, 2019
Customer Stories
Featured Student - Kahini Mehta
Students in the field of journalism, language, and communications often struggle to juggle many writing obligations at once. Between coursework...
Sydney Kuntz
October 17, 2019
Product Update
Microsoft Word (DOCX) Export and SRT with Automatic Line Breaks
Exporting from Otter just got easier with Microsoft Word (DOCX) and auto-cut SRT support – new exclusive features in Otter Premium and Otter for Te...
Dennis Park
October 17, 2019
Customer Stories
Featured Student - Peter Nicieja
Lots of students are procrastinators, and it’s often because they want to skip a tedious task and move onto what they’re passionate about...
Sydney Kuntz
October 15, 2019
Customer Stories
Featured Student - Jo-Ann Christina
Jo-Ann Christina started using Otter as a way to capture notes and details during courses. A truly dedicated student, she had found that...
Josh Gould
October 9, 2019
Customer Stories
Featured Student - Michaela O'Neill
Michaela O'Neill needed help. Asperger’s Syndrome kept her mind wandering and losing focus during class. She knew she needed to pay attention...
Simon Lau
October 8, 2019
Customer Stories
Featured Student Otter - Hailey Dolak
Many students who are deaf or hard of hearing have turned to modern assistive technologies to help them out in and out of the classroom. Otter is...
Sydney Kuntz
October 7, 2019
Customer Stories
Featured Student - Justin Felder
Otter isn’t just for two- or four-year college students. Because of its accuracy and convenience, the app is versatile enough to be used for all...
Sydney Kuntz
September 30, 2019
Customer Stories
Featured Student - Ben Ouyang
For a busy student like Ben Ouyang, who’s studying medicine and biomedical engineering in the MD/PhD program at the University of Toronto, Otter...
Sydney Kuntz
September 30, 2019
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