How to Use Notta in Chinese (2026): Traditional Chinese Settings + Tinrec 5-Step Walkthrough

I often see the same situation: a Chinese meeting gets recorded, dropped into a speech-to-text tool, and when the transcript opens, chunks are missing here and sentences are dropped there—so you end up listening to the recording all over again.

The problem usually isn't the tool. It's the very first setting that wasn't configured correctly—the transcription language.

This article answers "how to use Notta in Chinese." I'll first explain the key Notta Chinese settings, then walk through the complete five-step workflow using Tinrec.

Because no matter which tool you ultimately use, the process of turning a Chinese recording into usable meeting material is essentially the same.

Three Key Settings for Using Notta in Chinese

First, you need to select the right language for monolingual transcription.

Notta officially lists 58 monolingual transcription languages, including Traditional Chinese. If the language is still set to the default before transcription, Chinese audio will be treated as a foreign language, and the transcript quality will suffer.

Second, for meetings with mixed Chinese and English, switch to bilingual transcription.

Notta's bilingual transcription supports 23 languages, and you can choose any two—for example, Traditional Chinese plus English, or Traditional Chinese plus Japanese. Meetings in Taiwan rarely avoid English terminology entirely, so this setting is worth getting familiar with.

Third, you can translate after transcription.

Once transcription is complete, Notta can translate into 42 languages, which helps fill in the gaps for cross-language meeting notes.

One more thing to know upfront: Notta's free plan gives you 120 minutes per month, with a maximum of 3 minutes per recording. This limit is actually quite useful—cut a 3-minute sample that deliberately includes proper nouns and two speakers, test the recognition and summarization, and then decide whether to go further.

Notta's official pricing page (August 2026) shows Pro at approximately USD 8.17/month billed annually, with 1,800 minutes per month; Business at approximately USD 16.67/seat/month billed annually, including role permissions and usage reports. Actual amounts and taxes are subject to the official checkout page.

Before You Start | What You'll Need

• A Chinese recording (meeting, interview, or class all work) • A clear understanding of the language structure: pure Chinese, or mixed Chinese-English • A space that's as quiet as possible, or a microphone you can place close to the speaker • A stable internet connection (real-time transcription requires connectivity)

Next, I'll demonstrate with Tinrec—you can open your own tool and follow along.

Step 1 | Capture Clean Audio First

The goal of this step is to get a clean recording file—it's the foundation for everything that follows.

For online meetings, I don't use a meeting bot. Tinrec's desktop version captures computer system audio directly, handling Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and similar meetings without an extra bot joining the room or taking up an additional participant slot. For in-person interviews, record with your phone placed between the two of you—far better than leaving it in your pocket.

Why emphasize this? Because even the strongest AI transcription can't fix a muffled recording. Rather than spending time proofreading later, spend thirty extra seconds confirming placement before you record.

How Notta handles this: You can have Notta Bot join online meetings, or use the desktop version's Bot-Free Recording to capture microphone and system audio separately; the latter is still officially labeled Beta, with documentation primarily for Mac.

Step 2 | Let AI Transcribe—Decide the Language Here

After recording, Tinrec transcribes as you go, and the transcript builds up in real time; if you have existing files, you can upload audio or video directly.

The most important thing in this step is setting the language correctly. Choose Chinese for Chinese meetings; for mixed Chinese-English technical discussions, let it process as mixed content. Tinrec covers Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and multilingual meetings, and supports real-time translation—you can switch between original text, translation, or bilingual view during the process.

How Notta handles this: Set the language to Traditional Chinese before transcription; if participants mix Chinese and English, switch to bilingual transcription and select Traditional Chinese plus English.

Step 3 | Proofread—Only Go Back to Uncertain Spots

I don't read from the first line to the last. That's the same as re-listening to the whole meeting.

My approach: scan the AI summary and chapters first, flag a few key sections, then use the transcript's search and timestamp playback to listen only to those parts. Proper nouns, names, and numbers are the three must-check items.

Notta supports custom vocabulary—you can pre-load company names, product names, and terminology to reduce these types of errors.

Step 4 | Let AI Turn the Meeting into Summaries, Chapters, and Action Items

This is where the real time savings happen.

Tinrec automatically generates summaries and chapters, breaking long meetings into browsable sections and extracting action items from the discussion. More importantly, you can keep asking follow-up questions—like "What were the decisions in this meeting?" or "What were the three concerns the client mentioned?"—and it will search the meeting content for answers.

Getting only a transcript means you're only halfway done. What really takes time after a meeting is organizing, and that's exactly where AI should take over.

Notta also offers AI summaries and action items, and you can type questions into a chat box to have it find answers from the recording content.

Step 5 | Export—Get Content Back into Your Workflow

Organized material has limited value if it stays inside the tool.

Tinrec can export to common file formats and sync to Notion, Google Docs, OneNote, and Dropbox for further processing; when you need more complete output, you can use Agent post-processing to generate reports, tables, and meeting minutes. For team use, meeting data settles directly into the team space, so new members can find historical meetings too.

Notta can export to TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT subtitles, and other formats, and can also sync to Notion, Google Docs, and OneNote.

Common Questions and Troubleshooting

Q: The Chinese transcript has lots of errors—what should I do? First, check your recording environment. Too much distance, heavy echo, and multiple people talking at once are the three biggest enemies of recognition. Next are proper nouns—building terminology into a vocabulary list beforehand is much faster than fixing them one by one afterward.

Q: What language should I choose for mixed Chinese-English meetings? Don't force a single language. Use bilingual or mixed processing so words from both languages can be recognized.

Q: Do online meetings always need a bot to join? Not necessarily. Tinrec's desktop version captures computer system audio without a bot joining; Notta offers both bot-joining and desktop bot-free recording routes. The difference: the bot workflow is complete, but the host may need to approve it, and other participants will see it.

Q: Is the free plan enough? Notta's free plan gives 120 minutes per month with a 3-minute per-recording limit; Tinrec's free plan provides a basic quota for trying recording, importing, summarizing, and transcription. My advice is always to test with a real recording of your own—don't just look at the plan comparison table.

Q: Who owns the team's meeting data? This question matters more than features. Tinrec's team plan is a separate team space where data belongs to the team; when a member leaves or loses their seat, it must be handed over to other members and can't be taken away by an individual. The team plan distinguishes roles and seats: roles govern administration, seats control whether someone can record, upload, edit, and export; members without seats can still view and play team data.

Advanced Tips | Get More Out of Chinese Meetings

1. Use AI Q&A instead of re-listening Summaries tell you "roughly what was said"; Q&A tells you "where is the exact sentence I need." Decisions, objections, and commitments are faster to find by asking than by searching.

2. Let real-time translation accompany your meetings For cross-language meetings, switch to bilingual view—you don't need to wait for post-meeting translation; you can follow along in the moment.

3. Turn meetings into a team knowledge base Personal transcripts stay only on your own device. Once in the team space, they can be searched, queried, and picked up by the next person—this is the biggest difference between a personal tool and a team workspace. The team plan also lets you maintain team hotwords for more stable recognition of technical terminology.

If You Don't Use Tinrec, Here Are Other Options

Notta's multilingual transcription and subtitle handling are mature, with full Traditional Chinese support; the free plan gives 120 minutes per month and 3 minutes per recording, suitable for small-scale testing before deciding. TurboScribe leans toward long documents and batch file transcription, suitable for processing large volumes of recordings at once.

Both are worth trying. But if your scenario is "Chinese meetings every week, summaries and action items needed afterward, and data must stay with the team," then transcription minutes aren't the only thing to look at.

Conclusion

Back to the original question: How do you use Notta in Chinese? The key is just three things—select Traditional Chinese for transcription language, switch to bilingual for mixed Chinese-English, and translate after transcription. Get the settings right, and the quality of your Chinese transcript will be noticeably different.

And the work after the settings is where the real difference emerges: turning recordings into transcripts, transcripts into summaries and action items, and action items into input for the next meeting. This workflow works on Notta, and it works on Tinrec; I demonstrated with Tinrec because it puts bot-free recording, post-meeting organization, and team knowledge retention on the same track.

The next step doesn't need to be big. Take a Chinese recording you already have and run through these five steps once—you'll know exactly which part you're really missing.

References

• [Tutorial] 2026 Notta: Audio to Text + AI Summary and Multilingual Support - Tinrec Blog
• What Is Notta? Free Plan Limits, Pricing, and Traditional Chinese Transcript Tutorial | Mason AI Lab
• Notta | Learn AI
• Notta - Speech to Text, Voice Notes and Recording - Google Play App
• The Super Useful Audio-to-Text Tool — Notta