Transcribe Romanian audio to text
Upload a Romanian recording and get an editable transcript with timestamps and speaker labels, then export it as TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT or VTT.
Spoken language
română
What Romanian looks like on the page
Ședința începe la ora nouă. EN The meeting starts at nine o'clock. An example sentence for illustration, not transcript output.
Notes on Romanian
- Script
- Latin alphabet with ă, â, î, ș and ț
- Direction
- Left to right
- Language family
- Romance, with Slavic and Turkish loanwords
- Spelling trap
- ș and ț (comma below) are often typed as ş and ţ (cedilla)
Romanian is the one major Romance language that grew up surrounded by Slavic neighbours, and it shows in the vocabulary: Latin roots sit next to words borrowed from Slavic, Turkish, Hungarian and, more recently, French and English. In a recording that means a single sentence can mix origins, and proper names may come from several of these languages.
The diacritics are what most readers notice in a transcript. Letters like ă, â, î, ș and ț change meaning, and the difference between comma-below and cedilla forms is a quiet source of inconsistency. If your text is going into a publication or a database, run a find-and-replace on the cedilla forms.
Typical recordings are university lectures, TV and radio interviews, meetings in business and government, and podcasts. Fast, expressive speech and background noise can lower quality, and accuracy varies with audio quality, accents and background noise.
Speaker labels make interviews easier to follow, and the editable transcript can be turned into DOCX, PDF, SRT or VTT. If the audio will be quoted, check every quote against the recording using its timestamp.
Questions
Why do some Romanian letters look slightly different in exports?
The correct forms are ș and ț with a comma below, but many keyboards produce cedilla versions. If this matters to you, normalise them in the editor.
Does it handle Moldovan speech?
Romanian as spoken in Moldova uses the same language with its own accent and vocabulary. Results vary with accent, audio quality and background noise.
Can I transcribe Romanian lectures?
Yes. Upload the lecture, read it with timestamps beside the audio, and export DOCX or TXT for study notes.
Are Hungarian or Russian names kept?
Names from nearby languages appear in many Romanian recordings. Proofread them, since they are the likeliest source of slips.
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