Fathom, Fireflies, Otter, tl;dv and Gong are good products, used by many thousands of teams. Most were built for meetings in English, or in one language per meeting. EchoBrief was built for one specific kind of call: a B2B sales call in India, where the conversation switches between Hindi and English mid-sentence.
This comparison is about that kind of call. If your meetings are all in English, several of these tools will serve you well, and we say so below.
Everything we say about another product is taken from its own website or help centre on 5 November 2026, with links at the end. Products change; check the source before you decide.
The short version
| Calls that mix Hindi and English | What you get after a sales call | Free option | Entry paid price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EchoBrief | Built for it, on every plan. Notes in English, whatever was spoken | Summary, decisions, action items and a deal card, every point quoted and timestamped | Invite-only beta | ₹799 / $12 a month (8 meeting-hours) |
| Fathom | Hindi is one of 38 transcript languages; mixing languages in one call is not documented | Summary, action items; CRM field sync on Business | Free plan, unlimited recordings | $20 a month ($16 billed annually) |
| Fireflies | Mixed languages only in Multi-Language Mode, in beta, on Business and Enterprise | Summary and notes; CRM integrations on paid tiers | Free plan | Not listed on its pricing page |
| Otter | Hindi is not among its languages; one language per conversation | Summary and notes; Salesforce and HubSpot on Pro | 300 minutes a month, 30 minutes per conversation | $16.99 a month ($8.33 billed annually) |
| tl;dv | Hindi and "English (Hindi)" supported; detects several languages in one meeting | Summary and notes | Free plan | €29 a month (€18 billed annually) |
| Gong | Hindi supported | Full revenue intelligence: forecasting, deal boards, coaching | No | Not published; third-party estimates about $1,200–2,400 per user a year plus a platform fee |
Where EchoBrief is different
1. Notes in English from a call in Hinglish
Most notetakers transcribe in the language you set, or the one they detect, and write notes in that language. On a call that switches language every few sentences, that is where things go missing.
EchoBrief transcribes with a speech model built for Indian languages and code-mixed speech, and translates to English as it goes. You get English notes from the whole call, including the parts said in Hindi, on every plan. The same works for Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, Marathi and other Indian languages.
2. Every point is quoted and timestamped, and unsupported claims are removed
Every line in an EchoBrief summary points to the moment in the call it came from. Click it and the recording plays from that second. Before a summary is sent, each claim is checked against the transcript, and claims that cannot be supported are removed instead of being sent. For sales notes that a manager will act on, being able to check a line matters more than the line sounding good.
3. A deal card for sales calls
For sales calls, EchoBrief fills in seven rows: outcome, budget, decision maker, timeline, pain points, objections and next step. Each row comes from what was said, with its timestamp, and says "Not discussed" when the topic never came up instead of guessing. The summary leads with the outcome, including the uncomfortable ones: no-shows, polite refusals and conditional yeses.
Gong goes much further for large sales organisations. Among the lighter notetakers, a structured deal card on every sales call is unusual.
4. The small talk stays out
The first minutes of many calls are about traffic or who is still joining. EchoBrief uses when your guests were actually in the call to keep the summary, the insights and the CRM note to the meeting itself.
5. Priced in rupees, by meeting-hours
Plans are priced in INR for India (and in USD and EUR elsewhere): Starter ₹799 a month for 8 meeting-hours, Pro ₹1,999 for 16, and Sales Team ₹1,499 per seat for 12 hours each, pooled across the team. See pricing for the current numbers.
Where the others are the better choice
We would rather you pick the right tool than the wrong one:
- You want a free plan you never pay for. Fathom's free plan includes unlimited recordings. EchoBrief is an invite-only beta with paid plans that each include a set number of meeting-hours.
- Your CRM is HubSpot or Salesforce. Fathom lists both among its integrations, Otter includes both on its Pro plan, and Fireflies offers CRM integrations on its paid tiers. EchoBrief has no CRM integration live yet; it sends to email, Slack, ClickUp and Notion.
- Your meetings are in many languages outside India. Fireflies covers 100+ languages and Fathom 38.
- You run a large sales organisation and need forecasting and deal boards. That is Gong's territory.
- All your calls are in English. The Hinglish handling is EchoBrief's main difference. On English-only calls, the gap narrows to the deal card, the quoted notes and the price.
How to choose
Run the same real sales call through two tools and compare the notes, especially the parts said in Hindi. Ask three questions of each summary: does it say what actually happened, can you check every line, and is anything important missing?
EchoBrief is in invite-only beta: request access to try it on your next call. There are also one-to-one pages for Fireflies, Otter and Gong.
Sources (checked 5 November 2026)
- Fathom: pricing; help centre FAQ, "transcripts in 38 languages"
- Fireflies: Multi-Language Mode (Beta); supported languages; pricing
- Otter: pricing; French and Spanish support, Business Wire, October 2024
- tl;dv: pricing; transcript languages
- Gong: supported languages; pricing estimate, Aviso, 2026 (third party)