Otter Turned a 50-Minute Meeting Into Something I Could Search

I used Otter for this job the way most people do — slowly, and with a lot of backtracking.

I tried to skip the setup. The setup is the whole point, and here's why.

Step one is the boring part people skip: write down the exact output you want before you open the tool.

Then let Otter do the draft, but watch accuracy dips in a noisy room.

The fix that matters: cut the first paragraph — it's almost always filler

What changed: transcribes meetings live with speaker labels Now it's a ten-minute job I don't dread.

Don't expect it to be fire-and-forget. The tool handles the volume; you handle the judgment. That split is the whole trick.