An Otter.ai alternative for Arabic meetings

If your team meets in Arabic, the first question about any notetaker is whether it handles Arabic at all. For Otter.ai, its own documentation answers that.

What Otter.ai publishes about languages and plans

Otter.ai’s own help center says it “currently only supports English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese (Simplified)”. Arabic is not on that list. ^[1]
Otter.ai’s pricing page lists a free Basic plan with “300 monthly transcription minutes” and up to 30 minutes per conversation, and Pro at “$8.33 /user/month” billed annually or “$16.99 /user/month” billed monthly, with up to 90 minutes per conversation. ^[2]

How Qarar works

Transcribes Arabic as spoken: Egyptian, Levantine, Gulf and other dialects stay in dialect, and English terms stay in Latin script.
Writes the summary, decisions and action items in Modern Standard Arabic, and keeps quotes in the speaker’s own words.
Starts from a recording. Upload a file from Zoom, Teams, Meet or your phone, or record in Chrome. No bot joins the call.
Links every note to a timestamp, so you can play the line it came from.

Test it on your own meeting

Pick a recent meeting with dialect and some English.
Upload it to Qarar on the free plan (4 meetings a month).
Check names, numbers and action items against what was said.

Questions

Does Otter.ai support Arabic?

Not according to Otter’s help center, which lists English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Simplified Chinese.

Which Arabic dialects does Qarar handle?

Qarar is built for dialect speech, including Egyptian, Levantine and Gulf Arabic, and for meetings that mix Arabic with English. Accuracy depends on the recording, so check names and numbers.

Is there a benchmark?

Yes, for Levantine Arabic: on 2.06 hours of single-speaker Levantine video, Qarar’s dialect word error rate was 4.6%. That was the easiest two hours of our set, and the benchmark page shows the method and its limits. Gulf and Egyptian are being measured.

Sources

Retrieved on 4 October 2026 from each company’s own pages. Features and prices change, so verify them before you buy.