Simon Lau

Simon is SVP of Product at Otter.ai leading team collaboration features, product-led growth, and building a team of product managers and QA engineers to deliver a leading AI SaaS product
Productivity Hacks
How To Write a Clear Meeting Summary: Tips and Template
Don’t forget what happens in your meetings. Learn how to write an effective meeting summary and boost productivity with Otter.
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How to Prepare for a Meeting: A Guide for Leaders and Attendees
Learn how to prepare for a meeting, whether you’re leading or attending, and discover tips for maximizing success.
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The 10 Best OneNote Alternatives for 2025
Digital notetaking is about more than just words on a screen. Discover the best OneNote alternatives for notetaking, from Otter to Evernote and beyond.
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13 Virtual Meeting Etiquette Rules and 9 Mistakes To Avoid
Master virtual meeting etiquette with these tips for keeping your meetings professional and productive.
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26 Fun Meeting Icebreakers to Boost Team Collaboration
Icebreakers are a surprisingly fun way to boost productivity. Check out these 26 meeting icebreakers designed to energize your team.
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The 17 Best Productivity Apps To Crush Your 2025 Goals
Discover the best productivity apps for meetings, notetaking, project management, and more — plus features to look for in the app you choose.
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How to Transcribe a Video: Fast and Easy Methods for Any File Type
Learn how to transcribe a video quickly using tools like Otter, and explore features to consider when choosing a video-to-text converter.
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A Guide to Writing Interview Transcripts
Learn how interview transcripts can save you time and improve your workflow. Plus, discover how Otter elevates your transcripts.
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The Best 8 Descript Alternatives in 2025
Looking for the best Descript alternatives? Discover top transcription and editing tools like Otter, Riverside, Adobe Premiere Pro, and more.
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How To Get a Transcript of a Podcast: A Step-By-Step Guide
Discover how to get a transcript of a podcast using Otter. In addition, learn how transcripts benefit both podcast creators and listeners.
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How To Run an Effective Staff Meeting: 7 Tips
Ready to transform your next staff meeting into a productivity powerhouse? Read these tips and notetaking solutions from Otter.
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Top 14 Google Calendar Extensions & Add-Ons to Boost Productivity
Discover the Google Calendar extensions and add-ons that will help you boost productivity, streamline meetings, and optimize your time management.
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What a Meeting Facilitator Is and How You Can Use One
Discover how meeting facilitators boost productivity by taking the weight off managers and leaders. Plus, explore how Otter streamlines your meetings.
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How To Improve Client Communication: 10 Best Practices
Clear communication is key to successful meetings. Discover tips for improving client communication and building stronger relationships with Otter.
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How To Run a Level 10 Meeting: Best Practices and Examples
Level 10 meetings keep business running smoothly. Learn how to streamline your meetings with these best practices and Otter.ai.
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Is It Illegal To Record Someone Without Their Permission? Know the Laws
Is it illegal to record someone without their permission? The answer depends on where and what you record. Let’s break down federal and state laws.
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How To Type Faster: 12 Tips for Improving Speed
Discover how to type faster with 12 practical tips to rev up your speed, boost your productivity, and leave two-fingered typing in the dust.
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Sprint Retrospective: Agenda and Best Practices
Learn key best practices for running a successful sprint retrospective, including how to structure your sprint retrospective agenda for maximum impact.
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How To Choose the Right Meeting Cadence: 7 Tips
Too many meetings can frustrate teams, and too few can lead to chaos. Here are some tips to find the right meeting cadence for your team.
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How To Run Effective Check-In Meetings
Check-in meetings are the oil that keeps team progress burning. Here’s how to run a meeting that keeps everyone on track and eager to collaborate.
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Project Tracking: Top Tools and Best Practices
Learn top project tracking best practices and tools to stay organized, monitor progress, and ensure project success from start to finish.
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Creating an Effective Communication Plan, With Examples
Effective communication doesn’t happen by chance — it’s planned and nurtured. A communication plan fosters collaboration and keeps everyone informed.
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How To Run a Successful Post-Mortem Meeting: 7 Steps
Despite the somber name, a post-mortem meeting is a chance for teams to celebrate success and stimulate growth. Here’s how to run a successful wrap-up.
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Virtual Meeting: 8 Key Tips for Running It Effectively
Virtual meetings are the new norm, but they’re not without growing pains. Here are eight actionable tips to run productive online conversations.
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14 Essential Project Management Skills for Success
Project managers juggle resources, teams, and shifting objectives. Here are 14 project management skills to push your goals from concept to completion.
Productivity Hacks
How To Record a Google Meet: A Complete Guide
You can record Google Meet calls with a little pre-meeting preparation. But with Otter.ai, you can turn recordings into actionable summaries and notes.
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Choosing the Best Speech-To-Text App for 2025
AI-powered transcription apps can transform your productivity. Here are the top 4 apps on the market in 2025 and why Otter is the best option.
Productivity Hacks
The Top 8 Meeting Scheduling Software for 2025
Planning meetings doesn’t have to be a hassle. Here’s a guide to the best meeting scheduling software that does it for you.
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How To Record a Microsoft Teams Meeting: A Step-by-Step Guide
The better your meeting strategies, the better your impact. Learn how to record a Microsoft Teams meeting and make the most of every gathering.
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Meeting Notes Template With Action Items: Your Guide to Productive Meetings
Learn how to create an effective meeting notes template with action items to enhance productivity and make sure you don’t miss any tasks.
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Scrum Meeting: What It Is and How To Run One
Consistent communication is the pathway to progress. Here’s how scrum meetings can improve your team’s workflow and project success.
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How To Run a Meeting Like a Pro: Strategies and Tips
Learning how to run a meeting is a fine balance between order and creativity. Here are seven tips for effective meetings every time.
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How To Start a Meeting: Tips and Examples
Learning how to start a meeting boils down to applying the right strategies to draw interest and capture your participants’ attention. Let’s see how.
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How To Take Interview Notes Like a Pro: 10 Tips
Taking great interview notes makes following up easier, from action items to next steps. Here are 10 tips to improve your notetaking strategies.
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How To Generate a YouTube Transcript: A Complete Guide
Learn how to generate a YouTube transcript for more accessible videos, both on the platform and with AI-powered tools like Otter.
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59 Creative Check-In Questions for Meetings
Check-ins are important pulse checks to ensure teams are aligned and supported. To make the most of them, here are check-in questions for meetings.
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How To Write the Best Follow-Up Emails: Templates and Best Practices
When it comes to writing emails, every word counts. Here are five of the best follow-up email templates to get people to hit “reply.”
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48 Powerful One-on-One Questions To Improve Team Engagement
A one-on-one is an opportunity to build strong work relationships. Here are 48 one-on-one questions to make each conversation count.
Productivity Hacks
Super Bowl Commercials with Otter.ai: Your Game Day Memory Hero for Super Bowl 58
Tune in on February 11, 2024 from Las Vegas, Nevada
Productivity Hacks
How to Have Productive Team Meetings: Top 5 Tips
Take action to transform your team meetings today with these 5 actionable tips to boost productivity, focus, collaboration, and meeting efficiency.
Productivity Hacks
How to Select an AI meeting assistant
AI meeting assistants are becoming increasingly popular as businesses seek ways to improve meeting productivity and efficiency. However, with so many different options available, it can be challenging to know which one is right for you.
Productivity Hacks
Top 5 AI Meeting Assistants
AI meeting assistants are becoming increasingly popular as businesses look for ways to improve the productivity and efficiency of their meetings. These assistants can automate a variety of tasks, such as taking notes, transcribing conversations, and generating summaries.
Productivity Hacks
Live Transcribing Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet using OtterPilot
Otter.ai's OtterPilot is a powerful AI Meeting Assistant to help you get the most out of your meetings. It can automatically join your Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Google Meet meetings, transcribe them in real-time, and provide you with a live meeting summary. Viewing the live transcript and summary is a feature unavailable in many other meeting note tools.
Product Update
OtterPilot™ is the Smart AI Meeting Assistant You’ve Been Waiting For
OtterPilot is MeetingGenAI. Never take meeting notes again. Get transcripts, automated summaries, action items to save time and increase meeting productivity by eliminating the need to take manual meeting notes.
Productivity Hacks
Improve Collaboration for your Company All-Hands Calls
All-hands calls are an essential tool for companies to keep their employees informed, engaged, and working towards common goals. However, it can be challenging to ensure that everyone is collaborating effectively during these calls. Here are some ways to improve collaboration during all-hands calls.
Productivity Hacks
The Future of Meetings
The future of meetings is likely to involve a combination of in-person and virtual interactions. With the rise of remote work, it's becoming increasingly common for people to participate in meetings remotely, using videoconferencing tools like Zoom, Skype, and Google Meet.
Productivity Hacks
4 Ways Otter Can Improve Client Meetings for Agencies in 2023
As technology continues to advance, it's important for agencies to stay current and adopt tools that can help them better serve their clients. One such tool that agencies should consider adopting for client meetings in 2023 is Otter.
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6 Tips to Make Meetings more Accessible in 2023
Corporate meetings are an essential part of business operations, but they can often be exclusionary for employees with disabilities. By making meetings more accessible, businesses can create a more inclusive and supportive work environment for all employees. Here are some tips for making corporate meetings more accessible.
Product Update
Meet the New Otter
We’re excited to launch the new Otter — built for the half billion hybrid work professionals who are running from one meeting to the next, while juggling multiple projects with various teams. 
Productivity Hacks
The Best Work From Home Apps of 2022: WFH Effectively
Want to know which apps are best for working at home? Then this blog is for you! Uncover the best apps to use while working from home in 2022.
Product Update
Otter® Chrome Extension: Use Otter AI for Your Virtual Meetings
Add Otter to virtual meetings with the Chrome Extension. Otter Meeting Agent records, participates, takes notes, captures slides & generates AI summaries.
Product Update
Put Your Microsoft Teams Meetings on Otter
Otter is an AI meeting agent and assistant that records audio, writes notes, captures slides, actively participates, and generates summaries for Teams.
Product Update
Put Your Google Meet Meetings on Otter
Otter integrates with your calendar to automatically join, record, transcribe, share meeting notes, and actively participate in Google Meet meetings.
Customer Stories
Featured Ethical Business Strategist — Lucie Chiochetti
When done right, meetings can be the gateway to innovation and progress. Therefore, recording the proceedings of these events is just as important...
Customer Stories
Featured Product Manager — Megan Huynh
Since the onset of the global pandemic, there has been a massive shift in the way businesses conduct their operations. As remote working...
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Microsoft Word(DOCX)エクスポートと自動改行付きSRT
Otter Pro と Otter for Business の新機能が追加され、Microsoft Word (DOCX) と SRT の自動改行機能により、Otter からのエクスポートがより簡単行えます
Productivity Hacks
Choosing the Best Audio to Text Converter
Taking notes during meetings can be difficult. It’s hard to keep up with the speed people talk, and it’s even harder to take notes and listen to what people are saying at the same time. You could go back through recordings ( if there is a recording ) but this.
Customer Stories
Featured Film Teacher — Adam Burns
The Coronavirus pandemic caused thousands of classes, seminars, and meetings to shift online. This has become a massive struggle for educators...
Customer Stories
Featured Nursing Student — Veronica Conley
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in millions of schools being shut across the globe. As a result, education changed drastically, with e-learning...
Customer Stories
Featured CEO — Joanne Brooks
In the pre-pandemic world, virtual meetings and online seminars were a rarity, usually conducted on an experimental basis only. But now, everyone...
Customer Stories
Featured CEO & Board Advisor — James Routledge
Strategic leaders strive to cultivate an environment conducive to the growth of their employees. Meetings are a great way for them to gauge the...
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Announcing The Winners Of Otter Stories
We are thrilled to announce the winners of our Otter Stories Video Contest! We received over three hundred video submissions and we were inspired b...
Customer Stories
Featured Educator — Juliet Inyang
Hundreds of conferences were postponed, canceled, or shifted online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This has become a massive hassle...
Customer Stories
Featured Entrepreneur — Amy Modglin
The 2020 pandemic left everyone locked in their houses, isolated from one another. As the communication landscape rapidly shifted, people had to...
Customer Stories
Featured Video Producer — Lucinda Emms
Conducting video interviews is no easy task. It takes journalistic skills and critical expertise to ask the right questions at the right time...
How To
Otter.ai for Clubdeck
Transcribe, highlight, & share Clubhouse live!
Product Update
Use Otter Meeting Agent for Your Zoom Meetings
Otter is an AI meeting agent and assistant that records audio, writes notes, captures slides, and generates summaries for Zoom.
Customer Stories
Featured Entrepreneur – Paulina Karpis
Otter became an essential part of brunchwork’s daily workflow after the pandemic hit. Before Covid 90% of their revenue came from in-person events...
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Otterを用いたZoomへのリアルタイム字幕表示
Otter for Live Captions for Zoom 機能を用いて、Zoom会議やウェビナーにリアルタイムで英語の字幕を付与することが出来ます。
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Otterを用いたZoomウェビナーの書き起こし
Zoomウェビナー用のOtter Live Notesは、ウェビナーにリアルタイムの英語文字起こし機能を追加します。参加者は、Otterをブラウザウィンドウや、スマートフォン等のデバイスで確認し、文字起こしの確認や、テキストの強調表示やコメントの追加をすることができます
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コメント機能
コメント機能により、共同編集者と書き起こしデータにメモで注釈を付与する、メッセージ交換をすることが可能です
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New Data Reveal Meeting Changes Needed as Companies Evaluate Hybrid Work Plans
This week Microsoft announced it was inviting more employees back to campus and that their workforce was on “the brink of a disruption” with a move to hybrid work. The software giant shared that while they were evolving their own hybrid work strategy, they knew for sure that “flexible work
How To
Choose Who You Share With
How Privacy Works When You Share At Otter.ai, your privacy is paramount to us. We know some conversations are meant to stay between just you or...
How To
5 Reasons Why You Need Otter.ai for Zoom
5 Reasons Why You Need Otter.ai for Zoom
Product Update
Automatic Live Captions for Zoom with Otter.ai
Otter Live Captions for Zoom adds AI closed captioning in real time for Zoom meetings and webinars you host. Participants can click a button to see...
How To
How to live transcribe Zoom meetings with Otter.ai and Soundflower on Mac
The easiest way to live transcribe a video meeting on a Mac without playing the sound on speaker mode is by using Otter.ai - here's how...
Product Update
Live transcribe Zoom Webinars with Otter.ai
Otter.ai live transcription and meeting notes assistant for Zoom Pro, Business, and Enterprise (English only)
How To
How to transcribe any video with Otter.ai
To transcribe any video side-by-side with Otter.ai, all you need to do is follow these 3 easy steps!
How To
Login Help
Wondering why you log in and you see a free Otter Basic account without the conversations you saved? You probably logged into the wrong account or ina
Product Update
How to configure SAML single sign-on (SSO) in Otter.ai
SAML-based single sign-on (SSO) gives members access to Otter through an identity provider (IDP) of your choice.
How To
Webex Transcription: How to Transcribe Cisco Webex Meetings with Otter.ai
Learn how to transcribe your Cisco Webex meetings effortlessly with Otter.ai. Follow our simple guide to convert your Webex recordings into accurate text transcripts for free.
How To
How to transcribe a video on a PC with Otter.ai
The easiest way to transcribe a (live) video on a PC without playing the sound on speaker mode is to use this simple tool!
How To
How to transcribe a video on a Mac with Otter.ai
The easiest way to transcribe a (live) video on a Mac without playing the sound on speaker mode is by using Otter.ai - here's how...
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How to transcribe any video meeting with Otter.ai
To easily transcribe a video meeting LIVE with Otter.ai, all you have to do is follow these 4 simple steps...
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Otter.ai announces Live Notes for Zoom on CNBC Squawk Alley
Otter Live Video Meeting Notes is a new feature that enables Zoom meeting hosts to provide live transcription and collaborative note-taking to all participants, making remote work and learning more accessible and productive.
How To
Troubleshoot Zoom recordings stopped syncing
Have Zoom recordings that stopped syncing into Otter.ai and are now "processing" for a long time? This article will help you troubleshoot and resolve this problem.
Product Update
Live transcribe Zoom with Otter.ai
At a time when most meetings, events, and classes have gone virtual, remote workers and students struggle to listen and pay attention while taking...
Product Update
Live transcribe Zoom meetings with Otter.ai
Work from home productively – At a time when most meetings, events, and classes have gone virtual, remote workers and students struggle to listen...
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Otterのよくある質問|英語音声の文字起こしアプリOtter
Otterのよくある質問ページです。Otterは英語音声の文字起こしアプリです。英語音声を精度高くリアルタイムでテキスト化。英語会議や海外出張でのイベント、英語動画や洋画での英語の勉強などビジネス・プライベート様々なシーンで活躍すること間違いなし。
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A Year In Review 2019
in 2019, 1 million+ member joined Otter community, ottered over 150 million minutes of conversations. Otter.ai is for automatic meeting notes.
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Otterご利用ガイド|英語音声の文字起こしアプリOtter
Otterのご利用ガイドページです。Otterはの英語音声の文字起こしアプリです。英語音声を精度高くリアルタイムでテキスト化。英語会議や海外出張でのイベント、英語動画や洋画での英語の勉強などビジネス・プライベート様々なシーンで活躍すること間違いなし。
Product Update
Comments
Wished you could annotate your notes and exchange messages with collaborators in Otter.ai? Now you can, with Comments.
Product Update
Personalize Otter.ai with Custom Vocabulary to Boost Accuracy
You can teach Otter.ai proper names, jargon, acronyms, and unique name spellings with Custom Vocabulary – a paid features in Otter Premium and...
Product Update
Otter’s new Highlight Summary feature turns your meeting notes into a summary that you can share
One of the most requested features is now available! This simple but effective feature ‘ottermagically’ creates a summary of all your highlights...
Product Update
Convert SRT to Word: Microsoft Word (DOCX) Export and Automatic Line Breaks
Learn how to export transcripts from Otter.ai as Microsoft Word documents and SRT files with automatic line breaks to boost your workflow efficiency even more.
Customer Stories
Featured Student - Jo-Ann Christina
Jo-Ann Christina started using Otter as a way to capture notes and details during courses. A truly dedicated student, she had found that...
Customer Stories
Featured Student - Michaela O'Neill
Michaela O'Neill needed help. Asperger’s Syndrome kept her mind wandering and losing focus during class. She knew she needed to pay attention...
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"Coolest thing since the Roomba" – Otter.ai
From transcribing meetings and speeches in real time to detecting speakers and keywords, Otter Voice Meeting Notes is often considered one of the coolest AI apps by analysts and users alike.
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Life made easy with Otter.ai
Journalists, writers, podcasters, students, and business professionals praise Otter Voice Meeting Notes for making it easier to transcribe interviews, write articles, and take notes.
Product Update
Transcribe Zoom recordings automatically
Otter can automatically sync cloud recordings from your Zoom account and transcribe them in your Otter account.