LinTO Studio, the French open source alternative to Otter, Noota, Leexi and Copilot
Copilot, Gemini, Otter, Plaud, Noota, Leexi: everyone transcribes and summarizes. The difference is in live use, in what you can install yourself, and in where your meetings end up.
What makes the difference
Live, all the way to the AV desk
LinTO takes the sound of a room, a chamber or a stage, like a YouTube live stream. Subtitles go to the room screen and to every attendee's phone, in their language. At the European Parliament's European Youth Event 2025, nearly 9,000 young people followed the debates in the 24 EU languages. At Wikimania 2026, LinTO subtitled 8 rooms in 5 languages for the whole week.
Nothing goes to the United States
US law (the CLOUD Act) follows the company, not the server. Asked under oath by the French Senate in June 2025 whether he could guarantee that French citizens' data would never be handed to US authorities, Microsoft France's head of legal affairs answered: "No, I cannot guarantee it." LinTO is made by LINAGORA, hosted in France on servers it runs itself, and transcription, voice recognition, translation and the AI that writes all run there.
The code is open
LinTO Studio is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence. You can read the code, have it audited, or install the whole platform on your own servers, AI models included, with Kubernetes or Docker.
It knows your team's voices
Everyone can create a voice signature if they want to, and choose the organizations allowed to use it. LinTO then writes the right name in every meeting. You can keep only the voiceprint and delete the recordings, and one click erases everything.
Feature by feature
| CopilotTeams | GeminiMeet | Otter | Plaud | Noota | Leexi | LinTO Studio | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meetings | |||||||
| Meeting transcription and minutes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Ask questions about your meetings (chat) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Voice signatures: recognizes who speaks by their voice, from one meeting to the next | yes1 | no2 | yes | yes | no | announced3 | yes |
| Live and events | |||||||
| Live transcription | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | yes |
| Live translation | yes4 | yes | no | no | announced5 | no | yes |
| Plugged into a room's AV feed (SRT, RTMP), subtitles on the screen and on phones with a QR code | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes |
| Data and code | |||||||
| Hosting and AI with no US provider, by default6 | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes |
| Open source code | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes |
| Can be installed on your servers, AI included | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes |
| Getting started | |||||||
| Free to start | no | no7 | yes | no8 | yes | no | yes |
- Copilot: voice profiles in Microsoft Teams, used in rooms equipped with Teams Rooms.
- Gemini: no voice recognition documented, names come from the participants' accounts.
- Leexi: announced as coming soon.
- Copilot: Interpreter agent, with a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence.
- Noota: announced on a product page, not in the documentation.
- Microsoft, Google, Otter and Plaud are US companies, subject to the CLOUD Act wherever their servers are. Noota is hosted on Google Cloud, Leexi on AWS with Azure OpenAI for its AI; Leexi sells hosting at Scaleway as an option.
- Gemini: meeting notes need a Google AI Pro subscription or a Google Workspace Business Standard plan or above.
- Plaud: you first need to buy a Plaud recorder.
And the price?
Team plans, per user and per month, excluding VAT, as shown on the vendors' websites on 27 October 2026.
| Plan | Monthly, no commitment | Paid yearly | Good to know |
|---|---|---|---|
| LinTO Studio Business | 29,99 € | 24 € | Readers are free: only the people who upload and edit count. Single sign-on included. |
| Microsoft 365 Copilot Business | – | 18,20 € | On top of a Microsoft 365 licence (€15.60 promotional price). With Microsoft 365 Business Standard included: €20.36. |
| Otter Business | 30 $ | 19,99 $ | Prices in US dollars. |
| Noota Business | 49 € | 39 € | Single sign-on only in the Enterprise plan, on quote. |
| Leexi Business | – | 39 € | Yearly billing only. Single sign-on +€5 and hosting at Scaleway (France) +€5 per month. |
Gemini is included in Google Workspace plans and Plaud is sold with a recorder, so they are not in this table.
Try it on your own meetings
Free, no credit card: two hours of transcription a month to make up your mind.
Method and sources
Based on the vendors' websites and documentation on 4 October 2026, prices checked on 27 October 2026. Something changed? Tell us and we will fix it.
- French Senate, hearing of 10 June 2025
- Microsoft, Copilot for business prices
- Microsoft, voice recognition in Teams Rooms
- Google, Take notes for me
- Otter, prices and privacy policy (AWS, United States)
- Otter, speaker identification
- Plaud, privacy policy (Plaud Inc., Delaware)
- Plaud, automatic speaker labeling
- Noota, prices
- Leexi, prices and hosting FAQ
- otter.ai/privacy-policy
- leexi.ai, FAQ compliance & sovereignty