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The best app for transcribing Greek meetings in 2026

Greek has its own alphabet, and that is the first thing to test in any transcription tool. Ask for Greek and you can get back three different things: proper Greek text, Latin-letter "Greeklish" that nobody wants inside minutes, or both mixed in one paragraph. Then there is the accent mark, which separates πότε ("when") from ποτέ ("never"). Drop it and the transcript stops being a record of anything. Seven meeting apps, checked against Greek audio. If half your meeting runs in English, which is normal in Athens tech and Piraeus shipping, read the best app for multilingual meetings as well.

Updated September 2026

The short answer

1. Noter AI. Greek sits inside 60+ transcription languages with automatic language identification running on every recording, so nothing is picked before you hit record. Greek-English switching is tagged word by word, and it records a meeting in a room from a phone. Flat $9.99/month or $69.99/year.

2. Fireflies.ai. Greek within 100+ languages with auto-detection, and about 50 integrations. Priced per seat, and AI summaries are rationed by monthly credits on the lower plans.

3. Notta. 58 transcription languages, translation into 42, and a bilingual side-by-side view that suits Greek-English documents. You pick the language before recording, every time.

4. Fathom. 38 languages and the most generous free plan here. Online calls only, so an office meeting in Thessaloniki is out of reach.

5. tl;dv. Claims 30+ languages. Good sales-call analytics, an iOS app sitting around 2 stars, and a free plan capped at 10 AI summaries for the life of the account.

6. Granola. Claims 30+ languages and captures audio on a Mac with no bot in the call. Its phone apps record a room, but a video call still has to be caught on the computer.

7. Otter.ai. No Greek at all. Its six languages are English (US and UK), Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese Simplified. For a Greek meeting it is not an option, whatever else it does well.

One limit applies to the whole page and is worth knowing before you read further: Noter AI transcribes Greek but does not yet write summaries in Greek. That section is below, with the rest of the honest limits.

Noter AI records, transcribes and summarizes your meetings on iPhone, iPad & Android, in 60+ languages.

Why Greek needs a tool that respects the alphabet

Most language pages worry about accuracy. With Greek you have to check something more basic first, which is whether the text comes back in the right script.

  • Greeklish is not an acceptable transcript. "Tha to steilo mexri tin Paraskevi" is how Greeks have typed on phones since the SMS era, and it is fine in a chat. In minutes that go to a board, a client or a lawyer it is unusable. The line you want is Θα το στείλω μέχρι την Παρασκευή. Check the very first test transcript for Latin letters before you check anything else.
  • The accent decides the meaning. Modern Greek marks one stressed vowel per word, and that single mark does real work: πότε is "when", ποτέ is "never". γέρος is an old man, γερός is someone in good shape. A transcript that returns bare unaccented text hands the reader a puzzle in exactly the sentences where somebody committed to a deadline.
  • English sits inside Greek sentences all day. An Athens engineering standup produces lines like Ποιος αναλαμβάνει το deployment; with the Greek in Greek letters and the English term left alone. Note the question mark in that sentence: in Greek it is written as a semicolon. Piraeus shipping keeps laycan, demurrage and charter party in English. Hotel meetings in Crete keep check-in, no-show and overbooking. A tool that fixes one language for the whole recording mangles every one of these.
  • Letters that look Latin break your search. Α, Β, Ε, Η, Ι, Κ, Μ, Ν, Ο, Ρ, Τ, Χ and Υ are Greek letters that look like Latin ones. A transcript that slips a Latin O into a Greek word reads perfectly on screen and then fails when you search for that word later. Sigma also has two forms, σ inside a word and ς at the end, and getting that wrong is the quickest way to spot a weak model.
  • Cypriot Greek is a different spoken variety. Meetings in Nicosia or Limassol do not sound like meetings in Athens. Different consonants, a separate everyday vocabulary, and heavy English borrowing left over from the British period. Every tool on this page is trained mostly on standard modern Greek, so if your meetings are Cypriot, an accuracy claim about Greek tells you very little. Test with your own audio.
  • Diaspora meetings mix eras as well as languages. A community association meeting in London, Melbourne or New York can run half in English, half in Greek, with older speakers using vocabulary that left Greece decades ago. Automatic detection matters more here than a long language list does.

All 7 apps compared

Two columns settle most of this. "Supports Greek" removes Otter immediately. "Auto-detects language" removes Notta for any meeting where somebody might switch to English without warning, which in Greek business is most of them.

AppSupports GreekAuto-detects languageGreek + English in one meetingRecords in personSummary in another language
Noter AIYes, in 60+Yes, always onYes, tagged word by wordYes, from a phoneYes, summary, analysis and action items
Fireflies.aiYes (100+ list)YesYesYes (mobile app)Transcript only
NottaCheck current listNo, pick firstLimitedYes (web/mobile)Transcript only
FathomCheck current listPartialLimitedNoTranscript only
tl;dvClaims 30+PartialLimitediOS only, unreliableTranscript only
GranolaClaims 30+PartialLimitedYes (Mac or phone)Partial
Otter.aiNoNoNoVia phone micNo

#1 Noter AI

Noter AI is the app this site is about, so weigh the ranking accordingly. The reasons it fits Greek work are specific, and so are the things it cannot do.

There is nothing to set before you record. Transcription runs on Soniox's speech model with automatic language identification switched on for every recording. No Greek option to find, no English option to forget. Optional language hints exist if you want them.

Greek and English survive in the same sentence because the language is tagged word by word instead of fixed for the whole file. Ποιος αναλαμβάνει το deployment; comes back with the Greek in Greek letters and the English word in Latin letters, rather than one of them being forced into the other alphabet. That single behaviour is what separates a usable Athens transcript from one somebody has to retype.

It records the room, not only the call. A shipbroker meeting in Piraeus, a hotel handover in Crete before the season, a family business discussion, a lawyer's consultation, a diaspora association meeting in London or Melbourne: none of these are scheduled video calls. Noter AI captures them from a phone with one tap, a Control Center widget or Siri, keeps recording in the background, and imports existing audio files (M4A, MP3, WAV and others) or anything sent through the share sheet. On Android there is a home-screen Quick Record widget and recording runs in a foreground service. For online meetings a bot joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet and Webex (Webex on iOS only).

What comes back. A transcript with speaker labels and timestamps, where tapping any line plays the audio from that moment. Then an executive summary, a detailed analysis, and action items with owners attached. You can ask questions across a single note or across every note you have recorded, and export to PDF, Word or plain text.

Price is $9.99 a month or $69.99 a year, flat. No per-seat charge, no monthly credit allowance on AI summaries. The iOS app is rated 4.8 stars on the App Store. Processing takes roughly two minutes per hour of audio. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, you can sign in with Apple, your content is not used to train models, and you can delete the account and its data whenever you want.

The honest limits, and one of them matters a lot for Greek. Greek is a transcription language, not one of the 18 output languages. So a Greek meeting can come back summarised in English, German, French or any of the other 15, but an English meeting cannot come back summarised in Greek, and a Greek meeting cannot be summarised in Greek either. The raw transcript stays in Greek; the notes written about it do not. The app interface is localised into those same 18 languages, so a Greek user reads the app in English. Cypriot Greek is weaker than Athens Greek here, as it is everywhere. There is no web or desktop app, no CRM integrations, and no permanent free tier, though about five minutes of your own audio can be tested before paying.

#2 Fireflies: the widest language list

Fireflies covers Greek inside a published list of 100+ languages with automatic detection, so it handles the English words that turn up in every Greek meeting without being told in advance. Its mobile app on iOS and Android records in-person conversations, and around 50 integrations push notes into Slack, Notion, HubSpot or Salesforce. For a sales team already living in a CRM, that is worth more than anything else on this page.

Two reasons it is not first. The in-person recording sits in the thinner half of a product built around a bot and a browser, and the pricing is per seat, in the $10 to $19 per seat per month range, with AI summaries metered by monthly credits on the lower tiers. A team of eight pays eight times. See the Fireflies comparison.

#3 to #6: Notta, Fathom, tl;dv and Granola

Notta publishes 58 transcription languages and translation into 42, and its bilingual side-by-side transcript is genuinely useful if you produce documents in Greek and English together. The blocker is the workflow: there is no automatic language detection, so you choose the transcription language before recording starts, and choosing wrong gives you a page of nonsense. Free sessions stop at three minutes, and on plans below Enterprise your content is used for training. Confirm Greek is on the current list before you pay. See the Notta comparison.

Fathom has 38 languages and the best free plan in this category, and it only works when a bot can join an online call. It cannot import an audio file and cannot record a conversation in a room, which rules out most Greek meetings that are not on Zoom. There is no Android app either, just an iOS waitlist. See the Fathom comparison.

tl;dv claims 30+ languages and is strong on sales-call analytics. Its iOS app sits around 2 stars, its Android app is a capture-first "Lite" build, and the free plan gives you 10 AI summaries for the lifetime of the account. Run a low-stakes test before trusting it with a meeting you cannot repeat. See the tl;dv comparison.

Granola claims 30+ languages and captures Mac or Windows system audio without putting a bot in the call, which some people prefer for client meetings. Its iPhone and Android apps record a room, and a video call still has to be captured on the computer. Business pricing is per user. See the Granola comparison.

#7 Otter.ai has no Greek

Otter gets its own section because it is the name most people try first, and because a language with roughly 13 million speakers and its own script seems like an obvious thing to support. It is not supported.

Otter transcribes six languages: English (US and UK), Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese Simplified. No Greek. There is also no automatic language detection and no translated summaries, so even the workarounds are closed. Its live English transcript, the one that scrolls on screen while people talk, is still the best in the category, and none of that reaches a Greek meeting. See the Otter.ai comparison.

Getting a cleaner Greek transcript

  1. 1Record five minutes of a real meeting and look at the script first. Greek letters or Latin letters? If a tool hands you Greeklish, stop there, because no amount of accuracy fixes the wrong alphabet.
  2. 2Read the accents next. Modern Greek uses one accent mark per word. Bare text such as ποτε instead of πότε or ποτέ means you will be guessing at meanings later. Old polytonic breathing marks are a different warning sign: the model is leaning on very old text.
  3. 3Search the transcript for a Greek word you know was said. If the search finds nothing, Latin lookalike letters have been mixed into Greek words, and every later search will fail the same quiet way.
  4. 4Put the phone flat in the middle of the table with nothing covering the microphone. Greek meetings run with a lot of overlap, and the unstressed endings that carry the grammar are the first thing background noise eats.
  5. 5Say names, dates and amounts clearly once, early. Greek names change form by case, so Παπαδόπουλος, Παπαδόπουλο and Παπαδόπουλου are all the same person, and a clear first mention keeps the whole transcript consistent.
  6. 6If your meetings are Cypriot, test on Cypriot audio. A clean result on an Athens recording predicts very little about Limassol.

Bottom line

For Greek, the decision runs through four questions. Does the app support Greek at all? Does the text come back in the Greek alphabet with accents intact? Does it survive English words dropped into Greek sentences? And can it record a meeting that was never on a call?

Otter fails the first question and stops there. Fireflies passes all four and charges per seat, with summaries on a credit meter. Notta needs you to name the language before anybody has spoken. Fathom needs a video call. tl;dv and Granola are both built around a computer rather than a phone.

Noter AI passes all four, with the one caveat you should weigh yourself: the transcript is Greek, the summary is English or another of the 18 output languages. If your notes go to a head office, a client abroad or a lawyer working in English, that is what you wanted anyway. If you need Greek prose written for you, Noter AI cannot do it today; Notta translates into 42 languages and is the one to check.

Install it and run it on five minutes of your own audio, then read the first page for alphabet and accents before you judge anything else: Noter AI on the App Store. Android users can get the same test from Noter AI on Google Play.

Frequently asked questions

Which app is best for transcribing Greek meetings?

Noter AI for most Greek work. Greek sits inside 60+ transcription languages with automatic detection always on, the transcript comes back in Greek script with English words left in Latin letters, and it records in-person meetings from a phone for $9.99 a month or $69.99 a year flat. Fireflies.ai is the alternative if your meetings are mostly video calls and the notes have to land in a CRM.

Does Otter.ai support Greek?

No. Otter transcribes six languages only: English (US and UK), Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese Simplified. There is no Greek, no automatic language detection and no translated summaries. Its live English transcription is excellent and irrelevant to a Greek meeting.

Will I get Greek letters or Greeklish in the transcript?

Greek letters, from any tool that genuinely supports Greek. You should still check it yourself rather than take the claim: install the app, record five minutes of a normal conversation, and read the transcript. If "tha to steilo mexri tin Paraskevi" appears where you expected "Θα το στείλω μέχρι την Παρασκευή", the tool is transliterating instead of transcribing and the output will not go into minutes.

Can I get my meeting summary in Greek?

Not in Noter AI yet. Greek is a transcription language, so the transcript itself comes back in Greek. Finished notes translate into 18 languages, which are Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese. Greek is not one of them, so a Greek meeting is summarised in English or German rather than Greek.

Does Greek transcription handle Cypriot Greek?

Less reliably than standard Athens Greek, on every app here. Cypriot Greek differs in pronunciation and vocabulary, carries a lot of English borrowing, and has far less training data behind it. Record five real minutes in Cypriot Greek before paying for anything, because a general Greek accuracy claim will not predict the result.

What happens when a Greek meeting switches to English halfway?

In Noter AI the language is identified word by word rather than set for the whole recording, so the two alphabets stay separate inside one transcript. Fireflies also detects automatically. Notta does not, so a meeting recorded as Greek that turns to English produces a broken transcript from that point on, and Otter cannot start a Greek meeting in the first place.

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