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. Pricing is per seat.

3. Notta: Hindi is among its 58 languages, but its help docs have you select the language before recording. For a Hinglish meeting that's the wrong shape, whichever of the two you pick.

4. Fathom: 38 languages including Hindi; note it records online calls only.

5. tl;dv: claims 30+ languages; sales-call focus; its phone app records audio only, and you read the notes on the web.

6. Granola: claims 30+ languages; its phone apps record a room, but a video call still needs its Mac or Windows app.

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.

Hindi notes both ways: Hindi is one of Noter AI's 12 summary languages, so English notes from a Hindi meeting and Hindi notes from an English meeting both work, and the transcript translates into Hindi too.

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. $11.99/month or $89.99/year covers transcription, summaries, and action items, with no per-seat fees and no monthly AI credits. Rated 4.8★ on the App Store.

Hindi notes from any meeting. Hindi is one of the 12 summary languages, so an English meeting can come back as Hindi notes, and the full transcript translates into Hindi, one of 46 translation languages. Regional accents and noisy rooms cost accuracy on every tool. There's a free plan to try the app, and a free trial on every subscription, so you can test your own audio first.

#2 — Fireflies: widest catalogue, per-seat pricing

Fireflies handles Hindi inside its 100+ language catalogue and auto-detects, so like Noter AI it doesn't force a choice before recording. Coping with code-switching needs its Business plan (Multi-Language Mode, in beta). Pricing is per seat.

The limits for this use case: in-person recording sits in a mobile app that's the thinner half of a bot-and-browser product, and per-seat pricing compounds fast for a large team. See the Fireflies comparison.

#3–#6 — the rest

Notta lists Hindi within 58 languages. But its help docs have you select the language 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 publishes 38 languages, Hindi among them. 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 phone app records audio only, and its free plan gives full AI notes on just 10 meetings. See the tl;dv comparison.

Granola claims 30+ languages. Its phone apps record a meeting held in a room, but a video call has to be captured on its Mac or Windows app. 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 and no built-in summary translation. The moment Hindi enters the room, Otter 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 on its Business plan and the second only through its phone app. Notta records in person but has you pick the language first. 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 $11.99/month or $89.99/year. Notes can be produced in Hindi too.