Otter.ai Prompts & Workflow Tips
Otter.ai's AI Chat can query your transcripts directly. These prompts help you extract more than a raw transcript — action items, decisions, and summaries.
Otter AI Chat Prompts (post-meeting)
Summarize this meeting in 3 bullet points, then list every action item with who owns it and any mentioned deadline.What decisions were made in this meeting, and were there any disagreements or open questions left unresolved?Extract every question that was asked during this meeting and whether it was answered.Write a short recap email for people who missed this meeting, in a friendly, concise tone, under 150 words.
Using Transcripts for Content
Pull the 5 most quotable or insightful moments from this transcript, with timestamps if available.Turn this interview transcript into a Q&A-style blog post, cleaning up filler words and false starts but keeping the speaker's voice.
Tips for Better Results
- Say names and technical terms clearly early in a meeting — Otter's speaker labels and vocabulary improve once it 'learns' unusual words in context.
- Use the AI Chat on a finished transcript rather than mid-meeting — it works best summarizing complete context, not partial live transcripts.
- Manually correct a few speaker labels early in long recurring meetings — it improves auto-labeling accuracy going forward.
- Export the clean summary immediately after a call while context is still fresh, rather than batching multiple meetings' cleanup later.
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