Transcribe Finnish audio to text

Finnish builds meaning by attaching endings to word stems, and one word can carry what English spreads across a whole phrase. A speaker who says 'talossanikin' is saying 'in my house too' in a single word. For a transcript, this means every ending matters, and a small mistake in one letter can change a case. It is worth reading important quotes against the audio.

Another feature of Finnish is the distance between everyday speech and the written standard. In conversation, people say 'mä' and 'sä' where writing has 'minä' and 'sinä', drop endings, and merge words. A transcript records the speech, so you may find colloquial forms in the output. Use find and replace to standardise them if the document is for an official audience. Accuracy varies with audio quality, accents and background noise, and regional dialects from the east or from Ostrobothnia can differ noticeably.

Finnish recordings often come from broadcasting, research interviews and workplace meetings. Vowel length also changes meaning, as in 'tuli' (fire) and 'tuuli' (wind), so those are typical places to check. The timestamp next to every speaker turn takes you straight to the audio. Originals are deleted within 24 hours and are never used for training.