Korean transcription, app by app.

Does Otter.ai support Korean?

No. Otter’s help center says it transcribes only English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese (Simplified), and that German and Chinese are still in beta (help article updated October 2026). It also says Otter transcribes one language per conversation, chosen before the meeting; the stated exception is French with English.

Otter Chat can translate an existing transcript into other languages, but that does not help when the meeting itself is spoken in Korean: there is no Korean transcript to start from. Search results that rank Otter among “Korean transcription services” are out of date or are describing translation.

AI meeting note takers that support Korean for Zoom, Meet and Teams

If the meeting is a video call and you want a bot to join it, four of the eight list Korean. Fireflies lists Korean and Korean (South Korea) among 100+ languages. Notta lists Korean among 58 transcription languages, and its meeting bot can join Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Webex in bilingual mode. Fathom lists Korean among 38 transcript languages. tl;dv lists Korean among more than 30.

Transcription is not the same as summaries and action items. Fathom, for example, translates summaries automatically only for a short list of European languages, and Korean is not on it. Before you roll a tool out to a Korean team, record one meeting and read the summary, not just the transcript.

Korean and English in the same meeting

Meetings in Korean companies with overseas partners, classes with English terms, and Korean-American families often switch languages mid-sentence. Single-language tools tend to drop or garble the other language. What each company says about mixed speech:

• Notta: bilingual transcription, pick two of 23 languages (Korean and English included) for live recording, meeting bots and uploaded files
• Fireflies: Multi-Language (Auto-Detect) mode, in beta, for meetings where speakers switch languages
• tl;dv: automatic language detection that can transcribe several languages spoken in one meeting
• CLOVA Note: a “Korean + English” recognition setting; AI summaries need the recognition language set to Korean
• NoteCube: Korean, English or mixed conversations transcribed live, then summarized
• Otter.ai: one language per conversation, and Korean is not available

Korean transcription for in-person meetings, classes and interviews

When there is no call to join, the app has to record through a phone or laptop microphone. On iPhone, Voice Memos shows a free transcript on iPhone 12 or later, in 10 languages including Korean, though not in every country or region. It does not label speakers or write meeting notes. CLOVA Note records on the phone and turns the audio into text after the recording uploads, which suits a Korean lecture you will read later.

NoteCube writes the transcript on screen while people are still talking, with speakers and timestamps, in Korean, English or both. Afterwards a meeting becomes a summary, decisions and to-dos taken from what was said, and a class becomes a summary with new expressions and review cards. Its limits: it supports only Korean and English, it does not join video calls, and the free allowance is the first 60 cumulative minutes of transcription, once. Summaries of transcribed content are free on every plan.

Korean transcription accuracy: what to check

No company here publishes a Korean accuracy figure you can compare across apps, so test with your own audio. The usual weak spots in Korean transcripts:

• English product names, acronyms and numbers inside Korean sentences
• People’s names, which apps often split or respell
• Overlapping speech and the person farthest from the microphone
• Honorific endings that change the meaning of who did what