Otter.ai

Otter sits in a meeting or takes a file and returns a transcript with the speakers separated, which is where show notes, a follow-up post or a list of clips can start. Search across everything you have ever recorded is the part people keep paying for. Three hundred free minutes a month is five hours, so a weekly interview show fits and a daily one does not.

Basic is free with 300 transcription minutes a month, a cap on the length of a single conversation and three lifetime file imports, which is the limit most people hit first. Pro is $16.99 a month, or $8.33 billed annually, and raises that to 1,200 minutes and ten imports a month. Business is $30, or $19.99 annually, removes the meeting length cap and is the tier that gets bulk export. The API and webhooks are Enterprise only.

Interview podcasters and anybody whose recordings have to become text: show notes, subtitles, a written post from a spoken one. It is priced per person and per minute, so a daily show or a long unedited stream is where it stops being cheap.