Transcribe Czech audio to text

Czech has a lively gap between how people speak and how they write. In everyday speech, especially around Prague and in Bohemia, vowels and endings change in ways that the literary standard does not show, and many words get contracted. A transcript records the speech that was actually recorded, which is useful for research and frustrating when you wanted a tidy document. Decide up front whether you want a verbatim record or a cleaned-up text.

The alphabet is the other detail. Czech uses háčky and čárky on many letters, and these marks do real work: a missing one can turn a word into another word. The editor preserves them, but names, street names and surnames are still the most common corrections. Accuracy varies with audio quality, accents and background noise, and fast conversational speech with overlaps takes the most review.

Typical Czech recordings include university lectures, podcast conversations, municipal meetings and interviews that are partly in Moravian dialects. Moravian speech can differ from Prague speech in sound and vocabulary. Each line has a timestamp and speaker label, so verifying a doubtful word takes seconds. Originals are deleted within 24 hours and are never used for training.