Transcribe Swedish audio to text

Swedish recordings reach us from a country with very high uptake of podcasts, remote meetings and recorded classes, and from Swedish speakers living in other countries. The language is fairly regular on paper, but two features make a transcript worth a quick read: compound words and the melody of speech.

Compounding is the visible one. Swedish writes long noun compounds as one word, and a transcript that splits one in two changes how it reads. When you spot this, fix it in the editor and use find and replace for repeats.

The audible one is pitch. Swedish uses a pitch accent that distinguishes some word pairs, and regional accents from Skåne to Norrland change vowels and rhythm. Speakers from Finland who use Swedish have yet another accent. Accuracy varies with audio quality, accents and background noise, so it pays to check a short clip of each voice.

Typical uses are podcasts, interviews, municipal and company meetings, and lectures. Speaker labels keep panels clear, and the editable text can be exported as TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT or VTT. If you need the transcript in another language, Unlimited includes translation.