Afrikaans transcription
Afrikaans transcription for your audio and video files: drop the recording and the Afrikaans comes back as text or timed subtitles.
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Afrikaans transcription here gives you a first draft to correct, written in the ordinary Latin alphabet. Expect a fair number of wrong words, so read the text through before you use it. Afrikaans is close to Dutch, and this page is set to Afrikaans, so the text comes back in Afrikaans rather than Dutch. It works the same for speakers in South Africa and in Namibia.
Questions
Does it translate Afrikaans into English?
Yes, on another page: translate audio to English takes an Afrikaans recording and gives you the speech in English. This page keeps the Afrikaans as it was spoken.
My recording mixes Afrikaans and English. Will that work?
Use audio to text for that. This page expects Afrikaans throughout, so the English stretches can come out badly. Audio to text works the language out for itself.
Is it free?
Yes: 90 minutes a day, with no account.
How long can the recording be?
Up to 90 minutes, in a file under 95 MB.
About Afrikaans recordings
- Script
- Latin alphabet, written left to right, with ê, ë and ô.
- Spoken in
- South Africa and Namibia.
- Subtitle tip
- ê, ë and ô need a UTF-8 subtitle file; in an older encoding they can show as stray symbols.