<s>
Otter.ai	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
Mountain	O
View	O
,	O
California-based	O
technology	O
company	O
that	O
develops	O
speech	B-Application
to	I-Application
text	I-Application
transcription	B-General_Concept
applications	O
using	O
artificial	B-Application
intelligence	I-Application
and	O
machine	O
learning	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
software	O
,	O
called	O
Otter	O
,	O
shows	O
captions	O
for	O
live	O
speakers	O
,	O
and	O
generates	O
written	O
transcriptions	B-General_Concept
of	O
the	O
speeches	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Otter.ai	B-General_Concept
was	O
founded	O
as	O
AISense	O
in	O
2016	O
by	O
Sam	O
Liang	O
and	O
Yun	O
Fu	O
,	O
two	O
computer	O
science	O
engineers	O
with	O
a	O
long	O
history	O
of	O
working	O
with	O
artificial	B-Application
intelligence	I-Application
.	I-Application
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2019	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
launched	O
Otter	O
for	O
Teams	O
,	O
a	O
transcription	B-General_Concept
and	O
storage	O
product	O
for	O
enterprises	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
January	O
2020	O
,	O
now	O
doing	O
business	O
as	O
Otter.ai,	O
the	O
company	O
announced	O
another	O
$10M	O
funding	O
round	O
,	O
led	O
by	O
Japanese	O
mobile	O
phone	O
operator	O
NTT	O
Docomo	O
’s	O
Docomo	O
Ventures	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
develop	O
its	O
speech	O
transcription	B-General_Concept
technology	O
,	O
the	O
company	O
says	O
it	O
combined	O
deep	B-Algorithm
machine	I-Algorithm
learning	I-Algorithm
using	O
millions	O
of	O
hours	O
of	O
audio	O
recordings	O
,	O
which	O
were	O
analyzed	O
to	O
train	O
the	O
software	O
and	O
improve	O
the	O
transcription	B-General_Concept
capabilities	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
March	O
2018	O
,	O
technology	O
news	O
site	O
ZDNet	O
reported	O
concerns	O
about	O
Otter	O
's	O
privacy	O
policy	O
,	O
noting	O
that	O
the	O
company	O
could	O
access	O
uploaded	O
recordings	O
and	O
transcriptions	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
response	O
the	O
company	O
updated	O
the	O
policy	O
and	O
stated	O
that	O
only	O
the	O
CTO	O
would	O
allow	O
access	O
to	O
transcriptions	B-General_Concept
after	O
a	O
"	O
legitimate	O
user	O
request	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
February	O
of	O
2023	O
,	O
Otter.ai	B-General_Concept
launched	O
a	O
new	O
AI	B-Application
meeting	O
assistant	O
called	O
OtterPilot	O
,	O
which	O
automates	O
meetings	O
and	O
helps	O
professionals	O
save	O
time	O
and	O
increase	O
productivity	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
new	O
features	O
include	O
an	O
AI-generated	O
summary	O
of	O
key	O
meeting	O
topics	O
,	O
automated	O
capture	O
of	O
images	O
of	O
slides	O
shared	O
during	O
virtual	O
meetings	O
,	O
and	O
real-time	O
meeting	O
notes	O
that	O
can	O
be	O
shared	O
and	O
collaborated	O
on	O
.	O
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