Notta
4.5
Notta is the default meeting transcription tool in Japan: it records, transcribes Japanese accurately and produces a summary, with a free tier of 120 minutes a month. For English-speaking teams the relevance is specific — it is the one to use when the meetings themselves are in Japanese.
- Commercial use OK
- Japanese UI
- Free tier
- Enterprise contract
- Pricing
- ¥1,185/mo
- Free tier
- Free tier
- Commercial use
- Permitted
- Japanese UI
- Yes
- Enterprise contract
- Available
What it is good for
- Teams whose meetings are conducted in Japanese
- Japanese interview and user-research transcription
- Companies that need a Japanese-language vendor contract
- Trying meeting AI before committing budget
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Japanese transcription accuracy ahead of general-purpose tools
- 120 free minutes a month makes evaluation easy
- Japanese UI and local corporate contracting
- Summaries and speaker separation included
Trade-offs
- Advantage disappears if your meetings are in English
- Accuracy drops on crosstalk and poor microphones
- Data residency needs checking against your own policy
Editors' review
The Japanese meeting transcriber to pick when the meetings are in Japanese
Notta's case is narrow and strong. General-purpose transcription has improved in Japanese but still trails on names, honorifics and the overlapping speech of a normal Japanese meeting. Notta is tuned for exactly that, and it shows in the transcript you have to correct afterwards.
The free tier is unusually practical: 120 minutes is several real meetings, which is enough to judge accuracy on your own audio rather than on a demo.
If meetings are in English, there is no reason to choose it over Otter or Granola. And as with any transcription vendor, where the recordings are stored is a question for your own policy, not the product page.
Verdict
The right choice for Japanese-language meetings. For English, pick an English-first tool.
Compiled from official documentation and public sources, with our own editorial judgement. We do not publish figures we cannot source.