What is Notta?

Notta is a transcription and meeting-notes tool built around multilingual support: it transcribes audio, video and live meetings across dozens of languages, translates the resulting transcript, and layers AI-generated summaries and action items on top. It can join live calls (Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex) to capture and transcribe in real time, or process uploaded audio and video files after the fact, with an added screen recorder for capturing on-screen context alongside audio.

Where many meeting-notes tools focus mainly on English-language accuracy, Notta's core differentiator is bilingual and multilingual handling — simultaneous two-language transcription, custom vocabulary support, and translation layered on top of the raw transcript, aimed squarely at teams that regularly work across languages.

Who it is for

Notta fits multilingual teams, international sales and support organizations, and individuals who need transcripts of recorded content in a language other than the one they think in. It's also useful for anyone who simply needs a reliable transcript-plus-summary of uploaded files rather than only live meetings. Teams that only ever operate in a single language and want the deepest possible integration with one specific calendar or CRM workflow may find a more specialized, single-language tool a tighter fit.

Key features

Real-time meeting transcription across Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams and Webex
Bilingual transcription, capturing two languages simultaneously in one session
AI summaries and action items generated automatically from the transcript
File upload transcription for pre-recorded audio and video, separate from live meeting capture
Translation add-ons (monolingual and bilingual) for turning a transcript into another language
Custom vocabulary support for English and Japanese to improve accuracy on specialized terms
Document export to PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus integrations with Notion, Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot and Zapier

Pricing

Notta's free plan includes 120 transcription minutes per month, capped at 3 minutes per conversation — enough to trial the product but not for regular meeting use. The Pro plan runs about $8.17/month billed annually (list price is higher month-to-month) for 1,800 minutes a month and recordings up to 5 hours long. The Business plan, around $16.67/month billed annually, removes the monthly minute cap entirely. Enterprise pricing is custom and requires 51 or more seats. Translation is a paid add-on on top of Pro or higher, at roughly $6/month for monolingual and $9/month for bilingual translation.

Strengths

Multilingual and bilingual transcription is genuinely stronger than most competitors, which mostly bolt on translation as an afterthought
Works both live (joining meetings directly) and after the fact (uploaded files), covering more use cases than live-only tools
Broad export and integration support means transcripts and summaries fit into existing workflows rather than staying locked in the app

Weaknesses

Transcription accuracy varies noticeably by language, with the strongest support concentrated in a handful of languages
The free plan's per-conversation cap (3 minutes) makes it unusable for evaluating real meeting-length transcription without upgrading
Translation is a separate paid add-on rather than bundled, adding to the effective cost for multilingual teams

Getting started

New users should connect their calendar or meeting platform first so Notta can join calls automatically, then test the free tier against a short real meeting to judge transcription accuracy in the specific languages they need before upgrading. Teams planning to rely on translation should factor the add-on cost in from the start rather than assuming it's included in the base plan price.

Verdict

For teams that regularly operate across languages, Notta's bilingual transcription and translation handling make it a stronger pick than most English-first meeting tools. Teams working in a single language may get equivalent value from a cheaper, more focused alternative. See more options in AI Meeting Notes & Transcription, or compare against Otter.ai and Fireflies.ai.