The best app for transcribing Greek meetings in 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.

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

4. Fathom. 38 languages. Online calls only, so an office meeting in Thessaloniki is out of reach.

5. tl;dv. Claims 30+ languages, a phone app that records audio only, and a free plan that gives full AI notes on just 10 meetings.

6. Granola. Claims 30+ languages and captures audio on a Mac or Windows PC 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.

In Noter AI, a Greek meeting gets its summary in Greek automatically, or in English or another language you choose, and any transcript translates into Greek.

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.

#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 audio 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.

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.

Summaries in Greek or English. A Greek meeting gets its summary in Greek automatically, or in English, German, French or another language you choose, and the transcript translates into Greek, one of 46 translation languages. There's a free plan to try the app, and a free trial on every subscription, so you can test your own audio before paying.

#2 Fireflies: the widest language list

Fireflies covers Greek inside a published list of 100+ languages with automatic detection, so it needs no language set in advance. Handling the English words that turn up in every Greek meeting needs its Business plan (Multi-Language Mode, in beta). Its mobile app on iOS and Android records in-person conversations. Pricing is per seat.

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 billed yearly. 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. The blocker is the workflow: its help docs have you choose the transcription language before recording starts, and choosing wrong gives you a page of nonsense. Free sessions stop at three minutes. Confirm Greek is on the current list before you pay. See the Notta comparison.

Fathom has 38 languages, and it only works on online calls. It cannot import an audio file and has no phone app to 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. Its phone apps only record (you read transcripts and summaries on the web), and the free plan gives full AI notes on just 10 meetings. 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. 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 built-in summary translation. 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 (mixing needs its Business plan) and charges per seat. Notta needs you to name the language before anybody has spoken. Fathom needs a video call. tl;dv's phone app only records, and Granola needs its desktop app for video calls.

Noter AI passes all four. A Greek meeting gets its summary in Greek automatically, or in English or another language you choose. If your notes go to a head office, a client abroad or a lawyer working in English, an English summary is one setting away.

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.