Otter Assistant for Teams didn't initially recognise speakers as well the iPhone Otter app we'd used for some time the apps also made different mistakes in transcription. But in some cases, the Otter assistant missed a couple of words at the beginning of some sentences that the phone transcript captured. In practice, this mostly produced a more accurate transcription - for example, correctly getting '8 AM' as a time rather than the 'AM AM' we saw in the transcription of the same meeting done with Otter on an iPhone.

Theoretically, recording the audio stream directly should give better quality than using a device speaker and microphone. That won't always work for conference events hosted in Teams: for example, the Teams-based Q&A sessions at the recent Microsoft Ignite conference were set to open in the web version and not expose the meeting details in the URL (or show in our Teams calendar), so we couldn't even try to invite the Otter Assistant. Again, you'll have to do it from the Otter dashboard, and you need the URL of the Teams invite link, which includes any meeting password. Unlike the integrated transcription, Otter Assistant isn't restricted to scheduled meetings if you jump into a quick meeting to sort something out, you can still use the assistant.

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