Audio and podcasting
Otter.ai alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
Zackriya-Solutions/meetily★28,411 GitHub starsMIT licenceSelf‑hosted AI meeting assistant with live transcription, speaker diarization, and LLM summaries.Open on GitHub ↗Natively-AI-assistant/natively-cluely-ai-assistant★2,143 GitHub starslicence unclearOpen‑source AI meeting assistant providing real‑time transcription and automated meeting notes and summaries.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Enterprise-grade security, governance, and compliance controls (SSO/SCIM, domain capture)
- HIPAA-compliant offering and associated audit artifacts
- Extensive pre-built integrations and polished cross-platform apps
- Scale, reliability, and prioritised support for large teams
- Agent workflows (automated agents that join meetings and take actions)
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Otter.ai, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.