Transcribe German audio to text

German is the first language of Germany, Austria and most of Switzerland, and the written standard is the same across them. The spoken language is not. A Hamburg news broadcaster, a Vienna café conversation and a Zurich meeting use quite different sounds and vocabulary, and the further a speaker moves from the standard, the more review the transcript needs. Accuracy varies with audio quality, accents and background noise.

Swiss German deserves a specific warning. Everyday speech in Switzerland uses dialects that differ greatly from Standard German, and they are mostly not written. Recordings of ordinary conversation may not transcribe reliably. Formal speech by the same people, such as a presentation or a news report, is usually delivered in Standard German and is much more suitable.

On the page, German has habits that a proofreader should check. All nouns are capitalised, compound words become single long words, and a lecture can produce items that a human would break or hyphenate differently. The ß appears in Germany and Austria but not in Switzerland. With timestamps and speaker labels on each turn, correcting a name or a technical term takes seconds. For research projects, export DOCX or TXT. Originals are deleted within 24 hours and are never used for training.