Which AI note takers work in Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian?

Only a handful of AI note takers document all five languages: as of October 2026, Fireflies, Transkriptor and Latvia's Tilde list Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian, and Microsoft Teams transcribes all five, although Copilot's meeting recap is not confirmed for them. Swedish and Finnish are widely covered, Estonian less so, and Latvian and Lithuanian are the most often missing, while Otter and Google Meet's Take notes for me support none of the five. Mixed-language meetings are the bigger trap, because many tools transcribe one language per meeting and the multilingual modes that exist often leave these languages out or sit on higher plans. Digiotouch AI transcribes Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian and follows language switches mid-meeting, and whichever tool you shortlist, a five-minute test with your own recording tells you more than any language list.

Laura is an account executive at a Tallinn software company selling into Sweden, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania. Her discovery calls start in English, then switch to the buyer's language when their technical lead joins. The note taker her team trialled picks one language per meeting, so every switch turns into nonsense in the transcript, and it does not list Latvian or Lithuanian at all. Her CRM notes for the Riga and Vilnius accounts are still typed by hand after each call.

Why do Nordic and Baltic languages trip up AI note takers?

Speech recognition gets better with more training data, and smaller languages have less of it. In the paper behind OpenAI's open-source Whisper model, the authors found a strong correlation between the amount of training audio in a language and its error rate, with errors halving for every 16-fold increase in data (Radford et al., 2022). Swedish and Finnish usually make the cut; Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian are the first languages to drop off a vendor's list.

Mixed-language meetings make it harder. Google says its Meet notes feature supports one language at a time and does not handle several languages in the same meeting. Microsoft Teams has a multilingual speech recognition mode, but it covers nine languages and none of them is Nordic or Baltic. In a region where calls move between a local language and English, that is a daily problem rather than an edge case.

Which AI note takers support Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian?

We checked 15 tools against their own help pages on 7 October 2026; the full table is below. By language:

• Swedish: supported almost everywhere, except Otter and Google Meet's transcripts and notes. Granola supports it on desktop only.
• Finnish: also widely supported, but missing from Otter, Google Meet's notes and tl;dv.
• Estonian: Microsoft Teams, Zoom AI Companion, Fireflies, Fathom, Transkriptor, Tilde and Granola's desktop app list it; Otter, Read.ai, Notta and Klang do not.
• Latvian and Lithuanian: the real gap. Teams transcription, Fireflies, Notta, Transkriptor and Tilde list both; Fathom lists Latvian only; Zoom AI Companion, Granola and Read.ai list neither.

Platform matters too. Granola supports 31 languages on desktop but 17 on mobile, and Fathom's new Mac app is still rolling out its multilingual support. Our Otter.ai alternative guide covers Otter's six-language limit in more detail.

How Digiotouch AI handles this: Digiotouch AI transcribes in more than 130 languages, including Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian and Danish, and the transcript shows each passage in the language it was spoken across all its desktop, mobile, and web apps. The full transcript is available from the Essential plan.

Why do mixed-language meetings break most AI note takers?

Because most tools transcribe one language per meeting. Some ask you to choose it in advance, others detect it once and stick with it. When the conversation switches, the rest is transcribed with the wrong language model and comes out as garbled text.

• One language per meeting: Otter (chosen before the meeting), Google Meet's notes, Granola on mobile, and Read.ai, which says mixed-language meetings are not fully supported.
• Multilingual modes with limits: Teams covers nine languages, none Nordic or Baltic; Fireflies' Multi-Language Mode includes all five but is in beta on Business and Enterprise plans; tl;dv needs its Whisper model on higher plans.
• Switching that works for some of the five: Granola's desktop multi-language setting and Klang's automatic mode, for the languages each supports.

Summaries have their own rule. Zoom writes the summary in the language most participants spoke, and several tools do the same, so a Finnish-English call can produce an English summary of a mostly Finnish discussion.

How Digiotouch AI handles this: Digiotouch AI detects when a speaker changes language mid-meeting and keeps transcribing in the switched language, with no primary language to set in advance. The summary can be translated into any supported language, so a Finnish-English call can be summarised in either.

Can AI note takers translate Nordic and Baltic meetings live?

Some meeting platforms can, with gaps:

• Google Meet: translated captions cover all five languages, on selected Workspace editions.
• Microsoft Teams: live translated captions include Swedish and Finnish but not Estonian, Latvian or Lithuanian, and need Teams Premium or Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• Zoom: translated captions include Swedish, Finnish and Estonian but not Latvian or Lithuanian, on higher plans or an add-on.
• Note-taking apps: Tilde offers live translation in its Teams app; Otter, Fireflies, Granola and Fathom document no live translation.

How Digiotouch AI handles this: The Digiotouch AI desktop apps for macOS and Windows show live captions and live translation from the Essential plan onward, with a target language you can switch anytime during the meeting.

How can you test an AI note taker in your language in five minutes?

A language list tells you what a vendor supports, not how well. Run the same short test on each tool you shortlist:

• Record three to five minutes of a real conversation in your language, with participants' consent, including names, numbers, a product term and one switch into English.
• Use the plan and platform you would buy: desktop, mobile and higher plans often support different languages.
• Check the hard parts first: names, numbers and the passage after the language switch.
• Check the summary: is it in the language you need, and are the action items right?
• Count errors in one paragraph and compare tools on the same recording.

Our transcript accuracy benchmark shows the same method applied to three technical recordings.

How Digiotouch AI handles this: Upload the same test file to Digiotouch AI as MP3, MP4, WAV or WebM and the summary page is ready within minutes. The Free plan shows the summary and action items; checking the full transcript needs the Essential plan.

Nordic and Baltic language support by tool

Transcription support as published by each vendor on 7 October 2026. "No" means the language is not on the vendor's published list; "Unclear" means the vendor's own pages disagree.

Sources: each vendor's own help pages and documentation, checked 7 October 2026; Microsoft, Google and Zoom pages are listed in the citation index. Notta's list was last updated in April 2025 and Klang's pages give two different counts, so re-check both before you buy. Digiotouch AI is the vendor of one of the tools listed. Corrections: notes@digiotouch.ai.

Key takeaways

• Swedish and Finnish are well covered: Otter and Google Meet's notes are the main exceptions.
• Latvian and Lithuanian are the gap: only a few tools list both, so check before you commit.
• Mixed-language meetings need a mode: many tools transcribe one language per meeting.
• Platform and plan matter: desktop, mobile and higher plans often support different languages.
• Test with your own audio: five minutes of a real call beats any published language list.

Next step

Record five minutes of a real call in your language, switch into English halfway, and run it through Digiotouch AI and the other tools on your list. Compare names, numbers and the passage after the switch.

Related reading

• Best Granola alternative that records meeting video: how Granola and Digiotouch AI compare beyond languages.
• Best Otter.ai alternative for European companies: Otter's language and data residency limits for European teams.
• Copilot vs Digiotouch AI: how accurate is your meeting transcript, really?: a line-by-line accuracy test you can repeat in your own language.

Citation index

• Radford, A. et al. (2022). Robust Speech Recognition via Large-Scale Weak Supervision: arxiv.org/abs/2212.04356
• Google Meet Help. Take notes for me in Google Meet: support.google.com/meet/answer/14754931
• Google Meet Help. Use Transcripts with Google Meet: support.google.com/meet/answer/12849897
• Google Meet Help. Use live captions in Google Meet: support.google.com/meet/answer/15077804
• Google Meet Help. Use translated captions in Google Meet: support.google.com/meet/answer/10964115
• Microsoft Support. Multilingual speech recognition in Microsoft Teams: support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/multilingual-speech-recognition-in-microsoft-teams-650cb6d2-8a33-40e7-840d-36bb90216aa4
• Microsoft Learn. Meeting transcription and captions for Microsoft Teams: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/meeting-transcription-captions
• Microsoft Support. Use live captions in Microsoft Teams meetings: support.microsoft.com/en-US/teams/meetings/use-live-captions-in-microsoft-teams-meetings
• Microsoft Support. Copilot in Microsoft Teams frequently asked questions: support.microsoft.com/topic/e8737767-4087-4ae6-b1d8-10264152b05a
• Zoom Support. Supported languages for Zoom AI features: support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0078144
• Zoom Support. Using Meeting Summary with AI: support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0058013
• Zoom Support. Translated captions: support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0059081
• Help pages of Otter.ai, Fireflies.ai, Granola, tl;dv, Fathom, Read.ai, Notta, Transkriptor, Tilde, Klang and TalTech tekstiks.ee, checked 7 October 2026 (not linked; vendor domains).

External sources checked on 7 October 2026. Send corrections to notes@digiotouch.ai.