I’ve been cleaning up a few months’ worth of recordings and video clips lately (meetings, random notes, saved content, etc.), so I figured I’d finally try some of the AI tools everyone keeps recommending. Still wanna pick one tool to be my go-to tbh. Just wanna say upfront, this is purely my personal experience. Not saying any of these are bad, just what worked / didn’t work for me.(no affiliate links, just sharing my feeling) Otter.AI Probably the most well-known one. Transcription is solid, especially for meetings. But honestly… it feels too focused on just note-taking. Once you want to actually search deeper or reuse the content, it starts to feel limited. Also not gonna lie, uploading everything to the cloud for processing doesn’t feel great when it’s sensitive stuff. Muse.AI The idea sounds amazing: video hosting + AI search in one place. But in practice it feels like one of those “does everything but nothing extremely well” tools. When I tried to locate specific moments with more complex keywords, the accuracy was kinda hit or miss. TwelveLabs This one is… powerful. Like really powerful. But I feel like I’m not even the target user here. It’s clearly built for devs. If you’re not coding, it honestly feels like using a rocket launcher to kill a mosquito. Also the pricing… After trying all of these, I ended up sticking with Clipto.AI. For main reason, it just does keyword search well, which was what I needed. And it supports local processing, which was a big deal for me. Not having to upload everything. It’s transcription is fast, and finding specific moments is surprisingly accurate. That said… the UI is kinda rough lol. Very minimal to the point where I legit couldn’t find settings at first and thought I was missing something. Anyway, I guess my takeaway is: these tools are all good at different things, it really depends on what you care about. For me it was: privacy, fast keyword search, handling a messy backlog of content. So I ended up going with Clipto.AI since it felt like the best value for money tbh. Curious what you all are using, especially anything that does local processing well. Feels like that’s gonna matter more and more. submitted by /u/Safe-Obligation-3370
Originally posted by u/Safe-Obligation-3370 on r/ArtificialInteligence