Otter alternatives if you work in Spanish

Looking for a meeting transcription tool usually starts with the best-known names. Otter is one of them. It works well for many people, but it was built for English and the US market first. If you work in Spanish, from Spain or elsewhere in the European Union, there are other things worth checking before you decide. This guide doesn’t try to tell you which is best: that depends on where you hold your meetings and what you need afterwards.

What to look for if you work in Spanish

Almost every tool claims to transcribe dozens of languages. The list isn’t enough. These are the questions that make the difference day to day.

1. How well it really transcribes Spanish

Test each tool with your own recordings: a meeting with several people, different accents and some background noise. Look at proper names, your industry’s acronyms and whether it separates speakers properly. Check, too, whether you can give it a list of tricky words so it spells them right. A published figure helps you compare, but your meetings are the test that counts.

2. The app and help in Spanish

If your team will use it every day, it matters that the buttons, emails and support are in Spanish. And that summaries and tasks come out in natural Spanish rather than translated from English. Check whether the website and help centre are in your language and who you write to when something goes wrong.

3. Where the data lives and which AI processes it

A meeting can contain client, staff or health data. Ask where recordings are stored, in which region, and which company processes the text with AI: the tool itself or an external provider. Ask, too, whether your data is used to train models and whether there’s a data processing agreement you can sign.

4. Prices in euros and VAT invoices

Paying in dollars means the price moves with the exchange rate and the invoice may not fit your accounts. Check whether the price is shown in euros, whether VAT is included and whether the invoice can carry your company’s tax ID.

5. Which meetings the assistant joins

Many tools have an assistant that joins the video call and records it. Check which ones: not all of them join Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams. Also check what options you have when the assistant can’t join, such as a browser extension or uploading the recording.

What the usual options say on their websites

• Otter: its assistant joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams, and it has iOS and Android apps. According to its website, it stores data on AWS without stating the region, trains its models on de-identified data and holds a SOC 2 Type 2 report. Prices in dollars. Echo vs Otter.
• Fireflies: joins Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and other platforms, has a mobile app and lists SOC 2 Type II, ISO 42001 and HIPAA. It transcribes Spanish and 100+ languages; its website is in English. Echo vs Fireflies.
• tl;dv: has its data centres in Europe, charges in euros and its assistant joins Zoom, Google Meet and Teams. According to its website, it works with Anthropic as its AI provider. Echo vs tl;dv.
• Happy Scribe: data in the EU, a Spanish website and prices in euros. It transcribes 150+ languages and offers human proofreading and subtitling. Echo vs Happy Scribe.
• Notta: a Spanish website, 58 languages and a mobile app. It records Zoom, Teams, Google Meet and Webex meetings. According to its website, it uses AWS without stating the region. Echo vs Notta.

Where Echo fits

Echo is made by Edor Team Soft, a Spanish company, and is built for Spanish first. In November 2026 we measured its transcription on the public FLEURS Spanish dataset: it got 97.4 % of words right across 80 sentences. It’s a small, public test; the best thing is to check it with your own meetings.

• Data and AI in the European Union: transcription and AI run on Edorteam’s own servers in the EU, with no third-party AI providers and no training on your meetings.
• App, emails and support in Spanish, and in English too.
• Prices in euros, with and without VAT, and an invoice with your company’s tax ID. There’s a Free plan with no card needed.
• Beyond notes: translated subtitles, dubbing, clips, questions across all your meetings at once and tasks sent to Asana, Trello or Jira.

Where Echo falls short

• The assistant only joins Microsoft Teams. For Meet and Zoom in the browser there’s the Chrome extension, or you can upload the recording afterwards.
• There’s no mobile app yet.
• No certifications yet, such as SOC 2 or ISO. If your company requires them, other options on this list have them.
• AI only: no transcripts or subtitles checked by people, and no direct Salesforce integration.

If your meetings are mostly on Zoom or Meet, or you need to record from your phone, another tool will suit you better today. If Spanish and where your data lives matter to you, try Echo with your own recordings on the Free plan. You’ll find the pricing and the full comparisons, with sources for every claim.