Notta

What Is Notta?

Notta is a cloud-based transcription platform that supports 58 languages, making it one of the most linguistically versatile meeting transcription tools on the market. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Tokyo, Notta handles meeting transcription, audio file uploads, and live recording across a web app, mobile apps for iOS and Android, and a Chrome browser extension.

The platform positions itself as the multilingual alternative to Otter.ai. While Otter supports only three languages (English, French, and Spanish), Notta covers 58 languages including Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, and dozens of European languages. For international teams that conduct meetings in multiple languages or need to transcribe content from non-English sources, Notta fills a gap that no other mainstream meeting tool addresses.

Notta operates on a freemium model with a usable free tier and paid plans that unlock advanced features. The interface is clean and modern, the learning curve is minimal, and the platform works well across devices. It is not as polished as Otter.ai for English-only use, but its multilingual capabilities give it a clear competitive advantage in the global market.

Setup & Getting Started

Creating a Notta account takes about two minutes. Sign up with email, Google, or Apple, and you are immediately dropped into a clean dashboard with options to start a live recording, upload an audio file, or connect meeting integrations. The onboarding flow is lightweight — Notta shows a few tooltip explanations and then lets you explore on your own.

To set up meeting transcription, connect your Google Calendar or Outlook calendar. Notta's bot can then automatically join scheduled meetings on Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams. The calendar integration took us about three minutes to configure, including authorizing the necessary permissions. Once connected, Notta detects upcoming meetings and offers to join them automatically.

The Chrome extension installs from the Chrome Web Store in seconds. After installation, a Notta icon appears in the browser toolbar. Click it to start recording audio from any browser tab or your microphone. The extension is particularly useful for transcribing webinars, YouTube videos, and online presentations without needing to schedule a formal meeting recording.

Multilingual Capabilities

Notta's strongest differentiator is its language support. In our testing, we evaluated accuracy across four languages. English achieved 88-93% accuracy — slightly below Otter.ai's 90-94% on the same test passages. Japanese achieved 90-94% accuracy, which is excellent and better than most competitors. Mandarin Chinese achieved 87-91% accuracy. Spanish achieved 89-93% accuracy. The consistency across languages is impressive; many tools that claim multilingual support deliver significantly worse accuracy on non-English languages.

Real-time translation between languages is available on paid plans. During a test meeting conducted in Japanese, Notta produced a Japanese transcript with simultaneous English translation appearing alongside it. The translation quality was comparable to DeepL or Google Translate — not perfect, but useful enough to follow the gist of a conversation in an unfamiliar language. This feature is invaluable for international teams where not all members speak the meeting language fluently.

Language auto-detection works reliably for most major languages. When a speaker switches languages mid-conversation — common in multilingual workplaces — Notta handles the transition with about a two-second adjustment period. Mixed-language meetings (for example, a conversation that switches between English and Japanese) are transcribed with each segment labeled in its detected language. This is a workflow that Otter.ai simply cannot handle.

Accuracy & Performance

In our standardized testing on English content, Notta achieved 88-93% accuracy depending on audio quality and speaking conditions. This places it approximately 2-3% behind Otter.ai on English, which is noticeable but not dramatic. The accuracy gap is most apparent on complex sentences, technical terminology, and rapid speech. For standard business meetings with clear audio, both tools produce usable transcripts.

Speaker identification in Notta works but is less reliable than Otter.ai's implementation. In our tests with 4-person meetings, Notta correctly identified speakers about 78% of the time, compared to Otter's 85%. The misidentifications typically occurred when two speakers had similar voice characteristics or spoke in quick succession. You can manually correct speaker labels after the meeting, and Notta learns from these corrections over time.

Processing speed is competitive. Live meeting transcription appears with approximately 2-3 seconds of latency, which is on par with Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai. Uploaded audio files are processed at roughly 3x real-time speed — a 30-minute file takes about 10 minutes to transcribe. The AI summary generation adds another 2-5 minutes depending on meeting length.

Meeting Features

Like Otter.ai, Notta integrates with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams for automatic meeting recording. The Notta Bot joins your calls, records the audio, and produces a searchable transcript with timestamps. The bot appears as a participant named "Notta Bot" in the meeting, and other participants can see when recording is active.

AI-generated summaries are available on Pro plans and include an overview paragraph, key discussion points, decisions made, and action items. The summaries are generated within minutes of the meeting ending and are generally accurate for capturing the main topics. Like all AI summaries, they occasionally miss nuanced points or misattribute statements, so a quick human review is recommended.

Notta also supports recording in-person meetings using the mobile app as a recorder. Place your phone on the conference table, start recording through the Notta app, and the audio is transcribed and synced to your account. This is useful for teams that still hold in-person meetings and want the same transcription workflow they get from video calls.

Chrome Extension & Web Recording

Notta's Chrome extension is an underrated feature that extends the tool's utility beyond scheduled meetings. It can record audio from any browser tab — useful for transcribing webinars, YouTube videos, online courses, or live-streamed presentations. Click the extension icon, select "Record Tab Audio," and Notta captures everything playing in that tab.

You can also use the extension to record microphone input while browsing, effectively turning Chrome into a dictation tool. This is handy for quick voice notes, dictating email responses, or capturing thoughts while researching. The extension syncs all transcripts to your Notta dashboard, where they are searchable alongside your meeting transcripts.

In testing, the Chrome extension worked reliably across most websites. The only issues we encountered were with sites that use DRM-protected audio streams (like some premium video platforms), where the extension could not capture the audio. Standard websites, YouTube, webinar platforms, and most streaming services worked without problems.

Integrations & Workflow

Notta integrates with several productivity tools to fit into existing workflows. Meeting transcripts can be exported to Google Docs, Notion, or shared via link. The Zapier integration enables custom automations — for example, automatically sending meeting summaries to a Slack channel or logging them in a CRM. The API (available on Business plans) allows developers to build custom integrations for enterprise workflows.

Compared to Fireflies.ai's 40+ native integrations, Notta's integration ecosystem is more limited. There are no native CRM integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot), which is a gap for sales teams. However, the Zapier integration partially compensates for this limitation, and for teams that primarily need transcription and summaries without deep CRM connectivity, Notta's integrations are sufficient.

Pricing Analysis

Notta offers three tiers. The Free plan provides 120 minutes of transcription per month with up to three transcriptions, basic export, and no AI features. The Pro plan costs $13.99 per month (or $9.00/month billed annually) and includes 1,800 minutes per month, AI summaries, real-time translation, custom vocabulary, and Chrome extension features. The Business plan costs $59 per month and adds unlimited minutes, team management, API access, and priority support.

Compared to Otter.ai Pro at $16.99/month, Notta Pro at $13.99/month is approximately $36/year cheaper. The 1,800-minute monthly cap on Notta Pro is generous enough for most users — it covers about 30 hours of meeting transcription, which is more than an hour per business day. Only users with extremely heavy meeting loads would need the unlimited minutes of Otter Pro. For typical business users, Notta offers better value per dollar.

The Free plan is less generous than Otter's free tier (120 minutes vs 300 minutes, and limited to 3 transcriptions). If you want to evaluate the tool extensively before paying, Otter's free plan gives you more room to experiment. However, Notta does offer a 3-day free trial of the Pro plan, which lets you test all premium features including AI summaries and real-time translation.

Notta vs Otter.ai

The Notta vs Otter.ai comparison comes down to language needs. If your team conducts meetings exclusively or primarily in English, Otter.ai is the better choice — it offers 2-3% higher English accuracy, better speaker identification, and a more polished overall experience. If your team operates in multiple languages, conducts meetings with non-English speakers, or needs to transcribe content in languages beyond English, French, and Spanish, Notta is the clear winner.

Other differentiators: Otter has a more generous free tier and better real-time collaboration features. Notta has a more affordable Pro plan and the Chrome extension for web recording. Otter has deeper native integrations with video conferencing platforms. Notta has broader language support and real-time translation. For most users, the language support question determines which tool is the right choice.

Who Is Notta Best For?

Notta is ideal for international teams that conduct meetings in multiple languages, businesses with clients or partners in non-English-speaking countries, translators and interpreters who need quick transcriptions across language pairs, and language learners who want transcripts of foreign-language content. The 58-language support combined with real-time translation makes it the only mainstream meeting tool that truly serves a global, multilingual workforce.

It is also a solid choice for budget-conscious users who need meeting transcription but find Otter.ai's pricing steep. Notta Pro at $13.99/month delivers 90% of Otter's functionality at a lower price point, with the added benefit of multilingual support.

Notta is less ideal for English-only teams that want maximum accuracy (choose Otter.ai), sales teams that need deep CRM integration (choose Fireflies.ai), or users who need general-purpose dictation rather than meeting transcription (choose Wispr Flow or SuperWhisper).

Long-Term Value & Verdict

Notta has established itself as the go-to meeting transcription tool for multilingual teams. Its 58-language support is unmatched in the meeting transcription category, and the real-time translation feature is genuinely useful for cross-language collaboration. The pricing is competitive, the interface is clean, and the platform continues to improve with regular updates.

The main limitation is that Notta is not the best at any single language — Otter.ai beats it on English accuracy, and dedicated tools for specific languages may offer better results for that language alone. But Notta is the best tool that works well across many languages, which is exactly what international teams need. If your work involves multiple languages in any capacity, Notta should be on your shortlist.