Otter.ai is a Mountain View, Calif.-based tech company that uses artificial intelligence to generate speech-to-text transcriptions. It has become a popular tool for transcribing virtual office meetings. Source: Otter
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A federal lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses Otter.ai of “deceptively and surreptitiously” recording private conversations that the tech company uses to train its popular transcription service without permission from the people using it.
The company’s AI-powered transcription service called Otter Notebook, which can do real-time transcriptions of Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams meetings, by default does not ask meeting attendees for permission to record and fails to alert