Can Otter transcribe two languages in the same meeting?

Not really: Otter asks you to select the language before you record, and it transcribes that one language; the only mixed mode it offers is English together with French. Otter's help page on languages is explicit about selecting a default language first, and Chinese support is Mandarin with Simplified output. A meeting in which a Singapore team discusses a proposal in Mandarin and reads the numbers in English will come out with one half wrong. Audiee was built for that meeting: English, Mandarin and Cantonese are recognized together, switches inside a sentence are handled, and there is no language picker to get wrong. Names and terms you correct once are learned for the next meeting, and translate mode lets you speak one language and type another when you dictate. Audiee records from your Mac with no bot, keeps transcripts as Markdown files on the Mac, and gives you 3 hours of meetings a month at no charge. Test it on your most bilingual recurring meeting.

Checked September 2026. Numbers about other products link to the page they came from.

“you will need to select the default language before recording”

— Otter help: transcribe in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese or Chinese (Simplified), checked September 2026

Key facts

• Otter: choose the language before recording; no mixed-language mode except English + French; Chinese = Mandarin, Simplified output (checked September 2026).
• Audiee: EN/ZH/YUE mixed by default; summary in the meeting's main language; translate mode for dictation.
• Both bot-free on Mac desktop; Audiee stores files locally, Otter in its cloud.

Who this fits

Bilingual teams in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Chinese-speaking professionals abroad.

Next step

See which apps handle Chinese and English in one sentence.

Sources

• Otter help: transcribe in English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese or Chinese (Simplified)
• Audiee: Mandarin and Cantonese transcription on Mac