Transcribe Chinese (Mandarin) audio to text

Mandarin Chinese is the language of mainland China and Taiwan and of many overseas communities, and recordings arrive in every register: boardroom meetings, university seminars, livestreams and voice messages. A transcript is written in Chinese characters with no spaces between words, which makes searching and proofreading behave differently from alphabetic languages.

Two questions are worth settling before a big batch. First, which written standard do your readers expect? We do not guarantee Simplified or Traditional output, so run a short clip and look at the characters. If you need the other form, convert the finished text in your word processor. Second, how much does regional accent matter? Mandarin spoken in Sichuan, Taiwan or Singapore sounds different, and accuracy varies with audio quality, accents and background noise.

Homophones are the classic trap. Many Chinese words sound identical, so a name or a technical term can be written with the wrong characters even when the sound is right. The timestamps beside each speaker turn let you jump to the audio and verify. Export TXT or DOCX for documents and SRT or VTT for video. Originals are deleted within 24 hours and never used for training.