AI note takers in other languages: the 2026 lists, counted

Short answer first: most meeting note takers list far more than English, but the list that decides your meeting is often shorter than the headline. Counted on the vendors' own pages, Fireflies lists 115 entries (99 languages), Notta 58 (57), tl;dv 42 (32), Fathom 38, Read AI 36 and Otter six. Summary lists are shorter: Fathom translates summaries into six languages, Teams' AI recap lists 25 entries and Google Meet's notes take eight. Two languages in one meeting mostly needs a paid tier, or is not supported.

Every list below was fetched from the vendor's own page on 30 September 2026 and counted with a script. Entries are the lines as printed. Languages are what is left when each language counts once, however many regional variants (English UK and English US) or scripts (Chinese Simplified and Traditional) a list gives it; Mandarin and Cantonese count as two. A vendor with no list gets "no list published", and a listed language is not a promise that it works well.

What does it take for a note taker to work in your language?

A tool can transcribe your language and still not write the summary in it, or handle your language only when nobody switches to another one. So "supports Turkish" is more than one question, and the vendors' pages answer each part separately, when they answer it at all. The lists below come from those pages, and the gaps between them are the point of this article.

Is the transcript in the language that was spoken?

The transcript list is the one most vendors publish, and it is the longest. What differs is how the language gets chosen, because a wrong choice gives a transcript that does not match the meeting.

• Otter needs the language set before the meeting. Otter's language guide says a conversation cannot be reprocessed in another language afterwards; the way out is to export the audio and import it again.
• Read AI detects it. Read AI's language page says it detects the language spoken most and uses it for the transcript and the notes.
• Teams asks for one spoken language for the whole meeting. Microsoft's captions page says Teams prompts the organiser to change it when it hears a mismatch.

Fireflies and tl;dv sit in between: both let you set a default and re-transcribe a meeting in another language afterwards. If your meetings change language from week to week, detection or a simple way to redo the transcript saves you from a lost meeting.

Is the summary written in your language?

The summary is where the lists shrink. Where a vendor publishes a separate list for it, that list is shorter than its caption list, sometimes by more than half.

• Fathom's help centre lists 38 transcript languages but translates summaries into six. Its language page names Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian and Dutch, besides English.
• Teams' AI recap lists 25 entries. Microsoft's recap page prints them, against 57 on the captions page, and requires a Teams Premium or Microsoft Copilot licence.
• Notta lets you choose the notes language. Notta's settings page offers a fixed language or "Follow transcript" and prints no list for the notes; its homepage names English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and German "and more".

Can one meeting mix two languages?

This is where the pages are most careful, and most of the answers sit on business plans. Otter pairs only French with English. Google's help page says "Take notes for me" handles one language at a time, and Read AI calls mixed meetings not fully supported. The tools that do handle a switch say so in plain terms:

• Fireflies has a Multi-Language Mode, in beta. Its guide lists 60 languages, puts it on the Business and Enterprise plans, and writes the summary in the dominant language.
• tl;dv's Whisper model detects and mixes languages. Its help centre puts that model on the Business and Enterprise plans.
• Teams recognises nine languages side by side. Microsoft's multilingual page needs a Microsoft Copilot licence or Teams Premium.

How many languages does each tool list?

One row per tool, from its own pages. Where a platform keeps separate lists for captions and for the AI summary, both are given.

Read the table from the right-hand columns first. A long transcript list is worth little if the summary does not come back in your language, and a mixed-language meeting needs the sixth column, not the third. The counting rule is the same for every row, Notibo's included.

One entry could not be placed: Microsoft's list carries "Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR)", and the page does not say whether that means Cantonese. Counted with Chinese, as here, it gives 44; as Cantonese it would give 45.

Which tools list Arabic, Hindi, Swahili or Danish?

Ten languages from different regions, checked against each list as printed today. For Teams, Zoom and Google Meet the caption list and the AI notes list are given separately where they differ; Zoom's caption and summary lists agree on all ten. "Listed (beta)" means every entry for that language carries the vendor's beta label.

Swahili is the rarest of the ten: four of the twelve lists carry it, and on Google Meet it is marked beta. Bulgarian drops out of Read AI, Zoom and the Teams recap. Danish is missing only from Otter and Google Meet. A "listed" cell says the vendor supports the language, not how well it copes with your accent or your subject.

The tl;dv row covers its printed list only: the same page says the Whisper model, on the Business and Enterprise plans, supports more languages on auto-detection, and names none of them. Zoom also keeps a third list, for cloud recording transcripts, which is shorter than the two in the table: of the ten it lacks Hindi and Indonesian as well as Bulgarian and Swahili.

Why is the marketing number not the list?

The headline number and the list rarely agree, and the reasons repeat from vendor to vendor. None of them is a trick, but each one changes what the number tells you.

• Regional variants inflate the count. Fireflies' language page says its 100+ includes regional variants: six kinds of English, three entries for Portuguese, and Danish twice, as "Danish" and "Danish (Denmark)". Once each language counts once, 115 entries become 99. Flemish, which Fireflies codes nl-BE, is counted with Dutch; Nynorsk has a code of its own and is counted apart from Norwegian, and with it folded in the figure would be 98.
• Beta labels sit on another page. Fireflies' pricing page calls English the primary language and adds Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and "100+ other languages in beta", which leaves open whether the four named ones are in beta too; the list in its help centre carries no labels.
• The marketing and the list drift apart. Read AI's homepage says 20+ and the feature table on its pricing page 16+, while its help centre lists 36. tl;dv says 30+ and lists 42 entries, six of them kinds of Arabic, so 32 languages.

Notibo is counted the same way. Its site says 89, which is the number of entries in its recorder: eight kinds of English, two each of Spanish, Portuguese and Bengali, and two forms of Mandarin bring that to 78 languages. When you compare tools, compare languages with languages, and check which list the number came from.

What do Otter, Fireflies and Fathom say about languages?

Otter transcribes six languages, and its help centre marks German and Chinese (Simplified) as beta. The language you set covers the transcript, the summary and Otter Chat, and it has to be set before the meeting. Otter's own page says it hopes to add more. Where the six rule Otter out, the Otter alternatives article compares the options.

Fireflies has the longest list, 115 language entries after two rows that are detection modes. The default is "English (Global)", and Auto-Detect picks one dominant language per meeting. The help centre and the pricing FAQ disagree on how finished most of those languages are, so read both before you rely on one. The Fireflies alternatives article covers its plans and prices.

Fathom's help centre lists 38 transcript languages and has no beta labels. Its summaries are the narrow part: when a call is detected in one of six languages, Fathom translates the summary into it, and the bold entries on its page tie translated summaries to the Premium and Team Edition plans. For the other 31 languages the page names no summary language; its heading speaks of translating summaries from English. Fathom's overview page tells it more narrowly: it transcribes and summarises natively in seven languages, English and those six, on the Premium and Team plans, and Ask Fathom can translate into 29 more, of which it names Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Russian.

What do tl;dv, Notta and Read AI say?

These three publish full lists, each with its own way of handling a second language.

• tl;dv: 42 entries, 32 languages. tl;dv's transcript language guide carries six kinds of Arabic and four of English. Choosing a language per meeting needs the Chrome extension and a manual start, and its languages page says notes and reports cover the same 30+.
• Notta: 58 entries, 57 languages. Notta's language page and its homepage say 58; Chinese Simplified and Traditional are two scripts of one language. The help centre asks you to set the language before transcription starts.
• Read AI: 36 entries, 36 languages. Cantonese and Mandarin are listed separately. The output language can be set in the settings, and the feature table on Read AI's pricing page says 16+ where the help centre lists 36.

Notta's bilingual mode is the plainest answer to a two-language meeting: you pick two of the 23 entries on its list, 22 languages with Chinese in two scripts, before recording, on any plan. tl;dv and Fireflies detect the switch themselves, but only on business plans, while Read AI warns that mixed meetings may give inconsistent results.

What do Teams, Zoom and Google Meet cover?

Many readers already pay for one of these, so their own notes are the first thing to check; the meeting notes comparison sets them against the bots on everything else. All three keep the caption list apart from the AI summary list, and the summary list is always the shorter one.

• Teams: 57 caption entries, 25 for the recap. The same 57 appear on Microsoft's transcription page; the recap needs Teams Premium or a Copilot licence, and Microsoft Learn marks the multilingual recap as a public preview.
• Zoom: 49 caption entries, 33 for the summary. Zoom's captions page and its AI features list give both; cloud recording transcripts have their own list of 19.
• Google Meet: 88 caption entries, eight for notes. Google's captions page marks 62 of them beta, and the captions show only for the person who turns them on. Its transcripts page lists the same eight languages as the notes.

Zoom writes the summary in the language used by most participants, or the host's language when there is no clear majority, per its summary guide. On who gets a summary at all, Zoom's pages disagree: that guide requires a licensed user on a paid Zoom Workplace plan, while its pricing page gives free Basic accounts summaries for three hosted meetings a month. Google's "Take notes for me" page offers to change the notes language after 30 seconds of another language, but never runs two at once.

How do you test a tool in your own language before paying?

The ten-minute test in the article on AI notes in Danish works for any language. For meetings a few checks come on top, because the features that handle languages are often the ones vendors keep for paid plans.

Check which plan the language feature is on first. Fireflies' Multi-Language Mode and tl;dv's Whisper model are on Business plans, and Teams' recap needs Premium or Copilot, so a free account may never show you the feature you are paying for. Then read the summary, not only the transcript, and compare its language with the list.

If people in your meetings switch languages, record one mixed meeting on purpose, with everyone's permission, and see whether the transcript follows the switch. Check what a wrong setting costs, too: Otter cannot reprocess a meeting in another language, while Fireflies and tl;dv can transcribe it again.

Which should you choose for your language?

If your meetings are in a language most lists carry, such as Polish, Turkish or Ukrainian, choose on other grounds, and only check that the summary list carries it too.

If your language is on few lists, such as Swahili or Bulgarian, the choice narrows fast. Fireflies, Notta and Notibo list both. Google Meet's captions list both in beta, but its notes and transcripts list neither. For Bulgarian, Fathom, tl;dv and Teams transcripts do too.

If you need the summary in your language, check the summary list, which is where Fathom (seven), the Teams recap (25 entries) and Google Meet's notes (eight) stop.

If two languages share one meeting, look at Fireflies' Multi-Language Mode or tl;dv's Whisper model on business plans, Teams' multilingual recognition with Premium or Copilot, or Notta's bilingual mode. Otter handles only French with English. Whichever you pick, test one real recording before paying for a year.

Where Notibo fits

Notibo is not a meeting bot, and it sits in this comparison for its language list. The recorder lists 78 languages, or 89 entries when regional variants are counted, and all ten of the sample languages above are on it. The transcript is in the language spoken. Auto-detect is the default and copes with a switch of language mid-sentence, and nothing is translated.

It records in the browser on a computer: in Chrome or Edge you pick the tab the meeting runs in, and on Windows you can share the whole system sound. On a Mac only a browser tab gives sound, so the meeting has to run in the browser. Your microphone is recorded with it, a meeting in a room works through the computer's microphone, and you can upload an audio file instead. A room meeting can be recorded on a phone too, where Notibo is added to the home screen from the browser rather than from an app store and must be left open until you stop. No bot joins, so you tell the meeting you are recording.

What comes back is a transcript and notes: a summary, the main points and the action items. It does not join calls by itself, keep a shared team library or fill a CRM; for those, choose one of the meeting tools with a bot. A list says what is supported, not how well, so test your own language on a real meeting.

Pro is free for 14 days with no card, and after that the account keeps 30 minutes a month for free. Pro costs 9.99 euro a month or 88.99 euro a year. The transcription page has the details.