Using Otter.ai for transcriptions

Below is a transcript from a Zoom meeting that I had linked to Otter.ai.

Otter AI is a tool that uses artificial intelligence to transcribe conversations and meetings in real-time. It converts spoken words into text, allowing users to focus on the conversation rather than writing notes. Otter.ai also provides features for capturing notes, sharing transcripts, and integrating with various platforms.

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Welcome otter. Oh, wow. Hello and welcome to this meeting. Otter is on board taking notes.

Otter is an AI tool. You can find it at otter.ai.

So what you do is you get an account at otter. You can start with a free one, which gives you about 300 minutes of transcription time.

You then within the otter app, connect zoom, and then once you’re in zoom, you schedule a meeting and otter is linked, and it finds out when a meeting starting, and it will jump in there and do the Transcription.

I can now see the screen I’ve got my zoom on one screen, I’ve got otter on another, and it is typing away. It seems to be quite accurate. I’m watching what’s being typed as I speak, and boom, it’s appearing there, right on the screen.

So now I’m talking quite fast and seeing what’s happening. Can it keep up? Can it do it?

It is amazing, this technology. So I actually heard about this just the other day from the Mike Koenigs book, AI, accelerator, K, o, e, n, i, G, Koenigs is the spelling for Mike, and it covers a whole range of AI uses, including being able to set up a year’s worth of marketing in just a short time.

It is quite a good read. It really opens your eyes to the possibilities of AI.

Also, recently, I have gone through a certification course. Don’t know how great that is, but I did watch a lot of videos. I did a quiz at the end and got certified in AI. I’m also doing an AI Marketing Boot Camp right now, learning how to really do great marketing for small businesses and big ones too, one day. So session one I listened to today, I unfortunately missed out on the live session the other day.

But Mike Marin is running that, and he’s a very good marketer, lots of experience. He started off when he was around 22 and really took a deep dive into getting all this stuff to meetings and things, and had done a lot of marketing for businesses, And he’s made over a million dollars, I believe, several million or more.

So he’s running a boot camp. There are 24 of us involved in that. And in the first session, he was running through what the course will cover, he was asking if we want the Zumba version or the insanity version.

And people went for the insanity, even though he later pointed out that that’s what we were going to get anyway.

So it’s really going to push us, stretch us, and the aim is to earn at least $10,000 a month after about eight weeks. But it may not happen in that time frame, it might happen even quicker, but it’s better Pushing skills such as writing compelling marketing content using AI.

AI is really revolutionized the way things are. Of course, ChatGPT is the big gorilla in the room, and that’s what you hear about all the time. But there are so many different options, one that I’ve been using, which I heard about, excuse me, during the AI certification, is perplexity. You can get that at perplexity.ai

What I like about that is you can actually get content written that researchers across a lot of websites.

I’ve been writing some tennis articles for a website I’ve got robiciatennis.com and perplexity goes through all those sites like, for instance, I said, find a list of Australians playing at the French Open and tell me who they’re playing what the rankings are.

I also asked it to give me some predictions. So it grabbed all that information, current, up to date to the minute, almost. It had result. Didn’t quite get everything. There was a match involving Adam Walton where the draw had been done and his opponent had been selected. But perplexity didn’t pick that up. It just said he’s playing a qualifier.

So perplexity is a great alternative to chatGPT, if you’re looking for more up to date information, you are sourced from multiple sites. So I don’t know if it’s the same as chat GPT. I don’t know where the big database is for chat GPT, but perplexity seems to scrape all the content from different websites, and then compile it and give you a document.

I’ve also used it to research like a camper van trip. I’m thinking of going on up to the Warrenbungles in Australia. And it gave me an itinerary like it suggested places to stop, also where to stay that’s suitable for staying in a campervan. So it did all that. It’s really great. And as I said, comes comes, and that’s quite up to date, like tennis results, like that’s happening day by day. And there they all were. So analyze the draw that pulled out the relevant information that I asked for.

So it was really great. Also, I’ve been getting involved in AI software creation. I’ve got a course that’s just started. So I’ve picked a topic relating to photography, because I love photography. I love to teach people when I can, and part of that course is to create little mini quizzes that then use AI or AI is used to create a mini quiz you build in answers based on the results that obtained by the software, and then you give suggestions to the person filling in the quiz about what photography topics.

Or one thing I’ve been thinking about is a finder of camera gear, so someone puts in their budget, and the software will suggest what camera body, what camera lens, or lenses based on their budget. So I’m just wondering how complex it can get.

Will that suggest based on what I enter into the database, like I use Canon. So will it only spit out canon if I say so, or will it interrogate databases online and provide information? So I’m just learning that it’s a whole new world seeing what software can be created from Ai without knowing any coding, like I did see a bit of computer coding at university way back in the day, that was about 22 or three years ago, a degree I was doing through RMIT.

But I wouldn’t call myself a programmer, but now with AI, it’s possible to actually come up with programs. We’ll just see how complex they can be, but I believe they can be quite complex.

But for now, we’re just starting with basic questionnaire type or quiz type content. People fill in the answers, and then recommendations are provided, and then you can direct them to affiliate products, or course, you might want to sell them that type of thing, or just provide basic education. It depends what your ultimate aims are, but as they fill in the quiz you’re collecting email addresses.

So you could building a database just by providing free software which educates the people. So that’s another thing I’m doing, also looking at bot building through bot builders, something I’ve had for some time, but haven’t really dived into it.

But really, there are just so many AI tools coming onto the market. Some are just gimmicky. But also through the certification course, I saw several video editors which are quite amazing, and what they can do, you can just provide a photo, and then it goes and creates video content from that. And you can have like different photos to create different scenes, and that type of thing.

You can have voice overs done using AI linking into you. Look it up online here 11 labs.io, that’s probably the best AI text to voice generator that I’ve come across, and also that’s recommended in a lot of courses I’ve seen, excuse me, so elevenlabs.io, so as I said, it’s a text to voice AI tool, and the output is like quite natural sounding. It can have emphasis on words, and it’s not just robotic sounding. So that’s a really good tool, and that integrates into a lot of the other AI tools out there to give you, like, natural sounding voices.

I’ve also seen a course about creating a having AI spokes people or basically, it’s what they are. So I’ve got my Rodecaster Pro. Don’t know if that’s heard, but it’s now part of the transcript because I said it, and otter is busily transcribing.

So I’ve got my rodecaster, and let’s have some applause. You. Just wondering what otter will do that it doesn’t actually put in comments, like some other transcriptions you see in a movie, where it will say suspenseful music playing or stuff like that. So what else have we been up to lately?

Ai, options that create art. You can get photo, realistic photos through AI, you can do all sorts of things with AI, of course, and this is just basically me testing otter.ai so I’ll probably wrap up now And I can put this onto Robkeating.com, my website that’s sadly neglected, and that’s all for now.

So it’s looking like otter.ai is a great tool. I’m the only speaker in this situation. But if it was multi speaker, it picks up who the speakers are and gives you a transcription so fantastic it could be used in the workplace for meetings.

Of course, having a scribe sitting there, Otter can just jump in and Doodle for them. So that’s my test of otter.ai. If you’re reading this, I hope you found it interesting.

Oh, actually, I forgot there’s another AI thing I’ve been involved with. There’s a suite of tools with go E, 1u life, that’s quite interesting. Go E, 1u life, I didn’t notice otter didn’t quite get it right. That’s a suite of AI tools that you can access through a Matrix program, or you can buy them direct using credits tokens that you get.

So it’s a way of getting a tools such as on social media, posters, There’s a calendar, there’s about 18 tools, which I will go into in a different discussion. But if you’re interested in getting in using tools and possibly earning money as well, where you get paid in Bitcoin, that is something to look into. That’s something else I’ve been involved in lately, but that is all for now. thanks for hopping by Have a great day, signing it out.