tl;dv

tl;dv sits in the meeting-recorder tier alongside Otter and Fireflies, and differentiates on two fronts: multilingual quality (30+ languages with genuinely usable summaries, not just English) and a generous free tier that makes it the default recommendation for small teams. The killer feature is corpus-wide search — ask “every promise we made to this customer” across months of calls.

Summaries are solid but summarizer-flavored: they compress without the analytical depth of Read.ai's meeting intelligence, and speaker attribution occasionally needs a fix. CRM syncing and coaching workflows serve sales teams well. For meetings that must become searchable organizational memory — not just notes — tl;dv is the best free starting point, with paid tiers scaling the archive and AI features.