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6 audio tools in the same lane as Fireflies.ai, ranked by editorial score.

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Otter.ai

Audio · Proprietary speech + LLM stack
6.8

AI meeting notetaker that transcribes calls, summarizes them, and pulls out action items in real time.

Freemium· Basic: $20 · Pro: $50 · Enterprise: Contact salesmeeting-transcriptionmeeting-summaries
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VoxAI

Audio · Bring-your-own via MCP (Claude, GPT, or other MCP-compatible clients)

Local macOS conversation recorder with live AI copilot and speaker-labelled transcripts

Paid· FREE TRIAL: US$0 · EARLY BIRD · REGULAR: US$19.90Real-time meeting transcription with speaker labelsLive AI copilot during sales calls and negotiations
RA

Read AI

Audio · Multi-model
8.1

AI meeting copilot that transcribes, summarizes, and surfaces action items across Zoom, Meet, and Teams.

Freemium· Free: Free · Pro: $19.75 · Enterprise: $29.75 · Enterprise+: $39.75meeting-transcriptionmeeting-summaries
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AssemblyAI

Audio · Universal / Slam-1
8.7

Speech-to-text API with diarisation, summarisation, and topic detection.

Freemium· Pre-recorded Speech-to-Text API: $0.21 /hr · Universal-2: $0.15 /hr · Realtime Speech-to-Text API: $0.45 /hr · Universal-Streaming: $0.15 /hr · Universal-Streaming Multilingual: $0.15 /hrtranscriptiondiarisation
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Scribbl

Audio
6.7

Bot-free AI meeting recorder, transcriber, and summarizer for Google Meet.

Freemium· Free: 15 meetings/month; paid team plans for shared libraries and CRM integrationsmeeting-transcriptionmeeting-summaries
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Horch

Audio · Whisper (local) for transcription; optional Ollama / MLX local LLMs for summarization

Privacy-first, on-device meeting assistant for macOS

Paid· One-time purchase: €49 onceConfidential client meeting transcriptionAutomatic action-item extraction