Otter.ai is AI transcription for meetings and conversations. It records on your phone or joins a video call, writes a live transcript with speaker labels, and produces an AI summary you can export as text, PDF or Word. The free plan includes 300 minutes a month, up to 30 minutes per conversation.
Some surveyors use it, or a voice memo app, to capture the walk-round. It solves the typing. It leaves the report: you still read the transcript back, pull out each defect, sort them by system, write the recommendations and match your photos. Axsail is built to do those steps from the same spoken walk-round.
Why surveyors choose Axsail
A finding for every defect
Say "Engine room, port side, raw water pump weeping at the shaft seal, recommend rebuild." Otter writes down the sentence. Axsail writes the finding: Engine, port raw water pump, weeping at the shaft seal, rebuild recommended, priority B. Come back to the same item later and the finding updates.
Works where the signal doesn't
Otter's site doesn't say it transcribes offline. Axsail runs its speech model on the phone, so it keeps working in the engine room or inside a steel hull. Read how voice to text works on a survey.
One recording for the whole survey
A pre-purchase survey runs for hours. Otter's free plan stops at 30 minutes a conversation and Pro at 90. On Axsail a survey is one survey, paused for the haul-out and continued for the sea trial.
Photos where they belong
Take photos inside the Axsail app without stopping the recording, and each one lands on the finding it shows, from what you said around it.
Priced per report
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Otter.ai |
Axsail |
| What you pay for |
Minutes and seats |
Finished reports |
| One surveyor, a year |
Pro about $100 billed annually, for the transcript |
Starter €590 for 40 report credits |
| A quiet month |
Same subscription |
Nothing used |
See pricing, and how Axsail compares with voice memos and dictation.
Try it on your next survey
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