Transcribe Turkish audio to text, free

What makes Turkish hard to transcribe

Turkish is agglutinative: a single word can carry a chain of suffixes that an English sentence would need six words for. That makes word boundaries unusually long and means one misheard suffix changes tense, person and negation at once — small acoustic errors have outsized effects on meaning.

What your Turkish transcript looks like

The full Turkish alphabet is written, including the dotless ı and dotted İ, which are genuinely different letters and not interchangeable.

[00:00 → 00:04] Herkese günaydın, toplantıya başlıyoruz.

[00:04 → 00:08] Önce geçen ayın sonuçlarına bakalım.

An illustration of how Turkish transcripts are formatted — script, punctuation and timestamps. Not the output of any particular recording.

How accurate to expect

Standard Istanbul Turkish transcribes reliably. Eastern Anatolian accents and heavily Kurdish-influenced speech are noticeably harder.

What usually needs fixing

1. 1 Long suffix chains where one misheard syllable flips tense, person or negation.
2. 2 The ı / i distinction when audio quality is poor, since they are separate letters with different meanings.
3. 3 Arabic and Persian loanwords in formal or religious speech, which follow older pronunciation patterns.

Getting better results

• → Vowel harmony means suffix spelling is predictable; errors usually stay readable even when wrong.
• → Check the ı / i distinction after transcription if you are pasting into a system that lowercases text.

Who transcribes Turkish