Open Source Otter.ai AlternativesAudio Transcription Tools and other similar apps like Otter.ai

The best open source alternative to Otter.ai is Hyprnote. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Otter.ai and 15 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Otter.ai are Amurex, VoiceInk, FluidVoice and Transcribro.

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  1. Hyprnote icon
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    Still trying to take notes all by yourself? Hyprnote is an AI-powered notepad that crafts personalized meeting notes based on conversation content. With it, you'll feel like having a personal assistant that's always there to help you take notes.

    43 Hyprnote alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
     
  2. Amurex icon
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    Enhance productivity with your ultimate AI copilot, offering real-time suggestions, instant recaps, detailed transcripts, and automated follow-up emails for efficient meeting management.

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Google Chrome
     
  3. VoiceInk icon
     7 likes

    Instantly converts spoken words to text using local AI for near-perfect accuracy and privacy, with real-time transcription, seamless macOS integration, user-supplied AI keys, multiple language support, and no cloud data upload required.

    101 VoiceInk alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
     
  4. FluidVoice icon
     5 likes

    Processes voice-to-text instantly on Mac with privacy-first local AI, zero delay, no subscriptions, open-source code, optional context-enhanced transcription, direct input into any app, hardware-optimized performance, and full offline control.

    83 FluidVoice alternatives

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    • Mac
     
  5. Transcribro icon
     5 likes

    Transcribro is a private and on-device speech recognition keyboard and service for Android.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (ISC)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  6. oTranscribe icon
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    No more switching between Quicktime and Word. Pause, rewind and fast-forward without taking your hands off the keyboard. Interactive timestamps to navigate through your transcript with. Automatically saved to your browser's storage every...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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  7. Parlatype icon
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    Parlatype is a minimal audio player for manual speech transcription, written for the GNOME desktop environment. It plays audio sources to transcribe them in your favourite text application.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  8. TranscriberAG icon
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    TranscriberAG is designed for assisting the manual annotation of speech signals. It provides a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) for segmenting long duration speech recordings, transcribing them, labeling speech turns, topic changes and acoustic conditions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. Scripto icon
     4 likes

    Scripto is a free, open source tool for enabling community transcriptions of document and multimedia files. It is designed for institutions and organizations such as libraries and museums engaging in a range of large- and small-scale collaborative transcription projects as well...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10.  4 likes

    pmTrans (The Poor's Man Transcriber) is an open source tool for manual interview transcriptions and provides a multitude of ways to control the playback of audio files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  11. Meetily icon
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    Open-source Rust based AI meeting assistant with Parakeet/Whisper live transcription, speaker diarization, and Ollama summarization. 100% local processing. No cloud required.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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