Yoruba transcription
Yoruba transcription for interviews, lectures and voice notes: drop the file and get the Yoruba back as text or SRT subtitles.
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Yoruba transcription is offered for recordings from Nigeria and Benin, but accuracy for Yoruba is low and the text needs correcting throughout. Treat what comes back as a rough draft and check it against the recording. Short, clear clips of one speaker do better than long, noisy ones.
Questions
Does it translate Yoruba into English?
It will try, on translate audio to English, but with accuracy this low the English needs as much checking as the Yoruba. This page keeps the text in Yoruba.
My recording mixes Yoruba and English. Will that work?
Use audio to text for mixed recordings. This page expects Yoruba all the way through.
Is it free?
Yes, 90 minutes a day, no account.
How long can the recording be?
Up to 90 minutes, in a file under 95 MB.
About Yoruba recordings
- Script
- Latin alphabet, written left to right, with dots under letters (ẹ, ọ, ṣ) and accents that mark tone.
- Spoken in
- South-western Nigeria, and Benin and Togo.
- Subtitle tip
- ẹ, ọ, ṣ and the tone accents need a UTF-8 subtitle file to show correctly.