However when you contract to a service it is they not you that sets the terms and conditions of the contract which immediately puts you in a disadvantaged position. That is it is you who have a slight upper hand by convention. Legaly individuals with whom you communicate have a duty of care of confidentiality in one form or another often with legaly enforcable penalties that you can use. The fact it is by a service and it’s Terms of Service, rather than an individual with agency is rather more concerning. I think it’s good for people to look into this. Is this the first time the reporter thought about this? It’s also scary to think other people could upload your info without your knowledge. I would 100% bet that anyone interacting with a Uyghur human-rights advocate would be extra paranoid. Would you feel comfortable trusting Otter.ai with syncing and storing data from these programs? It’s crazy though because the Otter.ai website has options to sync to different calendar and contact applications – including Microsoft, Google, and Zoom apps. Do you think Otter.ai was asking about the recording purpose to try to put the reporter in a different plan? The costs appear to be Free, $8.33 per month, $20 per month, and ‘contact sales’ respectively. It looks like they have Basic, Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans.

Once I learned more about the minutes and costs, however, I didn’t continue to use it.

The transcription is still saved on the website I see. It did a pretty good job on most parts – although it was not an expert on translating frontier gibberish. posted a funny video and I used it as a test.

I thought I saw that Otter.ai was recommended and not crazy expensive. I had been researching transcription services a few months ago.

Otter record and transcribe