How Finnish speech transcribes
Finnish is spelled very close to how it sounds, which helps speech recognition. Long compound words are occasionally split or joined incorrectly.
What a Finnish transcript looks like
Finnish transcripts include ä and ö, and long compound words are written as one. Spoken Finnish differs noticeably from written Finnish, so transcripts may mix colloquial forms (mä, sä) with standard ones.
Examples
A Finnish researcher transcribes a 45-minute recorded seminar.
A podcaster turns a 12-minute Finnish voice memo into show notes.
Costs: 45 credits (4.5¢) and 12 credits (1.2¢), including a translated transcript if you select another language. Audio files go in the audio to text workspace.
Using the tool on this page
- The spoken language is detected automatically; you select the output language — the spoken language itself for an untranslated transcript, or another language for a translation. Files can be up to 2 hours long.
- Only the audio is sent for processing — the video stays on your device — and audio and text are deleted within 30 minutes of delivery (how files are protected).
- You can download a timestamped transcript, subtitles (SRT and VTT) and plain text. Every output, step and limit is explained on the video to text page.
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Frequently asked questions
Can it transcribe Finnish dialects?
Standard and everyday spoken Finnish transcribe well. Strong dialects and fast colloquial speech produce more errors.