The best app for transcribing Hindi meetings — and Hinglish ones

The short answer

1. Noter AI — Hindi sits inside 60+ transcription languages with automatic language identification switched on for every recording, so nothing is chosen up front. It handles Hindi and English inside the same sentence, and records in-person meetings from a phone.

2. Fireflies.ai — Hindi within 100+ languages with auto-detection, the widest catalogue here. Online calls only, and AI summaries rationed by monthly credits.

3. Notta — Hindi is among its 58 languages, but the language must be selected before recording. For a Hinglish meeting that's the wrong shape, whichever of the two you pick.

4. Fathom — 25+ languages and the best free plan in the category; check its current list for Hindi before committing, and note it records online calls only.

5. tl;dv — claims 30+ languages; sales-call focus; weak mobile app.

6. Granola — claims 30+ languages; Mac-first, so it can't cover meetings held anywhere but a desk.

7. Otter.ai — no Hindi. Its six languages are English (US and UK), Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese Simplified. For Hindi meetings it isn't an option.

One honest limit up front: Noter AI transcribes Hindi, but the finished notes can be translated into 18 languages and Hindi is not one of them. English notes from a Hindi meeting work; Hindi notes from an English meeting do not. If that's your requirement, check the list before you subscribe.

Hinglish is the whole problem

• Code-switching is the default, not an edge case. A standup in Gurgaon or a client call in Mumbai runs "kal tak deliver kar denge, but the QA build is pending" — Hindi grammar, English nouns. A tool locked to Hindi transcribes the English phonetically in Devanagari; a tool locked to English does the reverse. Either way, the part you needed is gone.
• Numbers and dates arrive in English. Even in an otherwise Hindi meeting, figures, dates, and technical terms are usually spoken in English — and those are exactly the parts you'll go back to the transcript for.
• Devanagari or romanised? Hindi can be written either way, and Hinglish is often typed in Roman script in chat. Expect a transcript in Devanagari for the Hindi portions, and check that the output script is one your readers actually want.
• Hindi and Urdu overlap in speech. Spoken Hindustani sits between them, so the same conversation can be legitimately transcribed different ways. That doesn't break anything, but it explains inconsistencies you may notice.
• Regional accents differ widely. Hindi spoken in Bihar, Rajasthan, Punjab, and Hyderabad differs enough to show up in accuracy. "Hindi" on a vendor's language list tells you a model exists, not that it survives your team's accents — test five minutes of your own audio before subscribing to anything on this page.

All 7 apps compared

Column three is the one that matters for India, and only two apps clear it properly. Column five matters almost as much: a large share of Indian business — site visits, dealer meetings, clinics, family firms — happens in rooms, not on scheduled calls, and the bot-based tools cannot hear those at all.

#1 — Noter AI

Noter AI is the app this site is about, so weigh this section accordingly — but the reasons it fits Hinglish are specific.

There's no language to choose. Transcription runs on Soniox's unified speech model with automatic language identification enabled on every recording. You don't pick Hindi, you don't pick English, and you don't have to predict which way a meeting will go.

Hindi and English in one sentence stay coherent. Because language is tagged at the word level rather than fixed for the whole recording, "client ko kal update bhej denge after the sprint review" comes back with the Hindi in Hindi and the English in English. On tools that commit to one language at record time, half of that sentence becomes phonetic noise — and it's the half with the commitment in it.

It records the room. Dealer meetings, factory walkthroughs, site visits, a conversation in a founder's office. Noter records those from an Android phone or iPhone with one tap, and keeps recording in the background. For virtual meetings a bot joins Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Webex.

English notes from a Hindi meeting. The executive summary, detailed analysis, and action items can be read in English rather than only the raw transcript — which is usually the actual requirement when the meeting runs in Hinglish and the report goes to an investor or a global head office.

One flat price. $9.99/month or $49.99/year covers transcription, summaries, and action items, with no per-seat fees and no monthly AI credits. Rated 4.8★ on the App Store.

The honest limits. Translation of the finished notes covers 18 languages — Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese — and Hindi is not among them, so you can't turn an English meeting into Hindi notes. Regional accents and noisy rooms also cost accuracy. There's no web or desktop app, no CRM integrations, and no permanent free tier, though roughly five minutes of your own audio can be tested free first.

#2 — Fireflies: widest catalogue, video calls only

Fireflies handles Hindi inside its 100+ language catalogue and auto-detects, so like Noter AI it doesn't force a choice before recording and can cope with code-switching. For an Indian software company whose meetings are entirely on Zoom, Teams, or Meet, it's a strong option, with 50+ integrations if the output has to reach HubSpot or Salesforce.

The limits for this use case: no in-person recording at all, AI summaries rationed by monthly credits even on paid plans, and per-seat pricing that compounds fast for a large team. See the Fireflies comparison.

#3–#6 — the rest

Notta lists Hindi within 58 languages and its bilingual side-by-side view is useful if you produce two-language documents. But there's no automatic language detection — you select before recording — which is precisely the failure mode a Hinglish meeting needs to avoid. Its free tier also caps sessions at three minutes. See the Notta comparison.

Fathom has the most generous free plan in the category and claims 25+ languages; confirm Hindi is on the current list before relying on it. It records online calls only and can't import audio files. See the Fathom comparison.

tl;dv claims 30+ languages and is built around sales-call analytics. Its iOS app sits around 2★ and its free plan caps you at 10 AI summaries for the lifetime of the account. See the tl;dv comparison.

Granola claims 30+ languages and is excellent at what it does — on a Mac. For meetings held anywhere else, it can't capture them. See the Granola comparison.

#7 — Otter.ai doesn't support Hindi

Otter deserves its own note because it's the best-known name in the category and people reasonably assume a language with half a billion speakers is on the list. It isn't.

Otter supports six languages: English (US and UK), Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Chinese Simplified. No Hindi, no automatic detection, no translated summaries. If your meetings are conducted entirely in English — which some Indian corporate meetings genuinely are — Otter's live transcription is excellent. The moment Hindi enters the room it stops being usable. See the Otter.ai comparison.

Getting a better Hinglish transcript

• Test with five minutes of a real meeting. Not a clean Hindi paragraph — an actual standup where people switch languages. That's the only test that predicts anything.
• Phone flat on the table, middle of the room, nothing over the mic. Indian offices are often open-plan and loud, and room noise costs more accuracy than accent does.
• Don't ask anyone to stick to one language. With an auto-detecting tool it's unnecessary, and in practice nobody manages it for more than two minutes.
• Say names, numbers, and dates clearly once. Those are the parts you'll return to the transcript for, and the parts worth a correction pass.
• Decide what script your readers want before you commit to a workflow. A Devanagari transcript is correct but not always what a mixed team wants to read.

Bottom line

For Hindi the question is almost never "is Hindi supported". It's whether the app survives a sentence that starts in Hindi and finishes in English, and whether it can record a meeting that happens in a room rather than on a call.

Fireflies answers the first well and the second not at all. Notta answers neither cleanly. Otter has no Hindi. Noter AI answers both — automatic detection with word-level language tagging for Hinglish, in-person recording from the phone in your pocket, and English summaries and action items from a Hindi conversation, at $9.99/month or $49.99/year. Just know that notes cannot be produced in Hindi, only from it.