Otter.ai

What do you like best?

Right off the bat, Otter.ai is able to start working for you, making it easy to use, and even though it's simple enough to get started it had a powerful and smart transcription capability. I like how it records your audio AND turns your spoken words into a sharable text format. You can even share the recorded audio which doubles up your content creation. You speak your content, can edit the text within the app, then share to a document format for let's say a blog post, then share the audio as a podcast episode as well as load it as a youtube video. That's three types of content channels from one recording! There's a reason why this app is so popular amongst authors and the share capabilities with multiple formats is a big one, saving so much time to get the content done and start sharing to your marketing and social channels.

What do you dislike?

The pricing, in my opinion, is a bit much and there aren't many options which I feel is a bit odd considering the obvious scalability of the program there could be more option available for me specified needs. As a basic user, you get an allotted amount of recording time each month, and you can only share in TXT format or the audio. You'll have to upgrade if you want more integrated options.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Problems being solved though are time management and production of content. Like I said with otter.ai you have the ability to create multiple types of content for a number of different channels just from one recording alone. People in podcasting, bloggers, content writers, and YouTubers can really benefit from this easy-to-use application, with it they would be able to at least triple their content production and it can all be done with the otter.ai app from a smart phone.