7 Best European Otter.ai Alternatives in 2026

Superscribe turns business phone calls into finished notes while you are already dialling the next number. It records calls on your own existing number and in-person meetings, then writes the transcript, summary and follow-up tasks, and files the conversation in Pipedrive the moment you hang up. No meeting bot joins the call and nobody needs a second phone number.

The iPhone app, Superscribe Phone, transcribes calls live and separates speakers in face-to-face meetings. On Mac and Windows, Superscribe Pro records video meetings and adds live dictation into any application, with the free Lite edition running dictation entirely on-device with no account. Team plans add pooled minutes, API access and an MCP endpoint for connecting call history to other tools.

Key benefits:

• Your own number so clients see the same caller ID as always
• No meeting bot joining calls or announcing itself to participants
• Live transcripts with speaker separation for in-person meetings
• Automatic follow-ups turned into tasks and deadlines after every call
• Pipedrive filing written without copying notes by hand
• Searchable history across every call and meeting you have recorded
• Desktop dictation in 99+ languages that types into any app
• API and MCP access on team plans for custom workflows

Superscribe is built by Haugas Development OÜ in Tallinn, Estonia, and is priced in euros. Recordings are stored in encrypted cloud storage with encryption at rest for sensitive data. Call recording is available in 29 countries, including most of the EU, the UK, Norway and Switzerland.

Ideal for estate agents, recruiters, brokers and consultants who spend their day on the phone and lose hours writing up calls afterwards.

HappyScribe turns audio and video into transcripts, subtitles and translations in 150+ languages and dialects, and records your meetings as well. When machine output is not enough, a human-reviewed tier has native-speaking professionals check the transcript for 99%+ accuracy, which suits newsrooms, legal teams and researchers who cannot publish or file a misheard quote.

An AI Notetaker joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet to record, transcribe and summarise calls with action items and custom templates, while mobile recording covers in-person meetings. AI Chat searches across your whole transcript library. For video teams, the same platform generates subtitles and translated captions with speaker diarization, ready to export for publishing.

Key benefits:

• 150+ languages for transcription, subtitles and translation
• Human review option reaching 99%+ accuracy with professional transcribers
• AI Notetaker for Zoom, Teams and Google Meet
• Custom summaries with templates and extracted action items
• Subtitle generation and translated captions for video publishing
• AI Chat answering questions across all your transcripts
• Pay-as-you-go per minute alongside monthly plans
• Free plan with unlimited meeting recordings

HappyScribe is operated by Happy Scribe Limited, registered in Dublin, Ireland, and built by a team based in Barcelona since 2017. Data is stored and processed in an EU data centre, every customer gets a GDPR data processing agreement, and the platform is SOC 2 Type II audited. Customer content is not used to train AI models without opt-in.

Trusted by 41,000+ teams including ITV, Fujitsu, Randstad, Tamedia and Skydance.

tl;dv records, transcribes and summarizes your meetings across Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, then pushes the insights into your CRM and other tools through 5,000+ app integrations. Instead of rewatching hourlong calls, teams get AI summaries, speaker-tagged transcripts and clipped highlights minutes after the meeting ends.

Beyond single meetings, tl;dv aggregates insights across many calls: ask questions over your whole meeting library, generate recurring reports for leadership, and coach sales reps with AI analysis of their conversations. Transcription covers 30+ languages, making it a fit for international teams.

Key benefits:

• Free forever plan with unlimited recordings, transcripts and AI summaries
• Multi-platform support covering Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams
• CRM automation that logs calls and drafts follow-ups automatically
• Multi-meeting intelligence with reports and questions across your call library
• AI sales coaching analyzing talk ratios, objections and playbook adherence
• 30+ languages for transcription and summaries

tl;dv is built by tldx Solutions GmbH, headquartered in Aachen, Germany, and is GDPR-compliant and SOC 2 certified per its published security documentation. As a German company it offers European teams meeting intelligence governed by EU law.

Trusted by more than 2 million users, including teams at Salesforce, Cloudflare and Roche.

Granola is an AI notepad that takes your rough meeting notes and turns them into polished, shareable summaries, working without a bot joining your calls. It transcribes audio directly on your device while you jot down the points that matter, then blends your notes with the transcript so the output reads like you wrote it, only complete.

Because there is no recording bot in the room, Granola works with any meeting platform and stays invisible to other participants. After the call, you can chat with your meeting history, pull action items, and reuse templates for recurring formats like sales calls, interviews or one-on-ones.

Key benefits:

• No meeting bot since audio is captured on-device, invisible to participants
• Notes enhancement that merges what you typed with what was actually said
• Chat with your meetings to query past decisions and commitments
• Templates for sales calls, user interviews, standups and one-on-ones
• Action item extraction ready to paste into your task tracker
• Works everywhere with Zoom, Meet, Teams and in-person conversations

Granola was founded in London in 2023 and operates from the United Kingdom under UK GDPR. Backed by Index Ventures and valued at 1.5 billion dollars in 2026, it has become the meeting notepad of choice for founders and investors.

Ideal for people in back-to-back meetings who want notes they would actually trust, without sending a bot on their behalf.

scryp turns audio and video recordings into accurate text using its own speech model, SX-3, tuned for German as it is actually spoken in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, including dialects and proper names. Every plan includes unlimited transcription, so interviews, lectures and long meetings do not eat into a monthly minute allowance.

Files are encrypted in the browser with AES-256-GCM before they are uploaded, can be up to 10 GB each, and can be in any of 134 languages beyond German. Transcripts open in an editor synced to the audio, speakers are labelled automatically, and VoiceClear noise reduction cleans up difficult recordings. The top plan adds AI summaries that turn a recording into meeting minutes, to-do lists or social posts.

Key benefits:

• Unlimited transcription on every plan from EUR 9.90 a month
• German-first model that copes with dialects and natural speech
• Speaker recognition labelling who said what automatically
• Browser-side encryption of files before they leave your device
• Synced editor for correcting text while the audio plays
• Flexible exports to PDF, Word, TXT, SRT and WebVTT
• AI summaries producing minutes and action items on the Ultra plan
• No model training on your recordings

scryp is run by a sole proprietorship based in Vienna, Austria. Speech processing, including the AI features, happens in scryp's own data centre in Vienna, with encrypted storage at Hetzner in Nuremberg, Germany. Email, payments and support also run on EU-based providers, and recordings are never passed to a US speech API.

Ideal for journalists, researchers and German-speaking teams who need GDPR-compliant transcripts without sending recordings to a US cloud.

Gladia is a French speech-to-text API built for product teams, transcribing audio in 100+ languages with real-time latency under 300 milliseconds. Its Solaria model family delivers word error rates competitive with the best US engines, with code-switching support for conversations that jump between languages mid-sentence, a real condition in European markets.

Beyond raw transcription, the API enriches audio into structured data: speaker diarization, sentiment analysis and entity recognition ship built in. Native integrations with LiveKit, Pipecat, Twilio and Retell make it a drop-in speech layer for voice agents, meeting assistants and call platforms, in batch or streaming mode.

Key benefits:

• Real-time transcription with latency under 300ms for live voice products
• 100+ languages with code-switching for multilingual conversations
• Audio intelligence including diarization, sentiment and entity recognition
• Voice-agent ready with LiveKit, Pipecat, Twilio and Retell integrations
• Free tier of 10 hours of audio per month, no credit card required
• EU data residency options for compliance-sensitive workloads

Gladia is a French SAS registered near Rennes, France, and publishes GDPR, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and HIPAA compliance on its site, with explicit EU data residency. European voice products get US-grade accuracy without routing customer audio through US infrastructure.

Ideal for developers building meeting tools, voice agents and call analytics who need multilingual accuracy under EU jurisdiction.