Transcribe Tagalog (Filipino) audio to text

Tagalog is the base of Filipino, the national language of the Philippines, and recordings in it nearly always come with a second language mixed in. Everyday conversation, radio, call-centre training and church talks move between Tagalog and English within a sentence. This blend, often called Taglish, is not an error, and a faithful transcript keeps both languages as spoken.

That makes review the main step. A first pass can write English words correctly and Tagalog words correctly while still tripping on the borders, for example where a Tagalog verb takes an English root. Accuracy varies with audio quality, accents and background noise, and regional accents from outside Manila can add further variation.

Tagalog has features worth knowing when you proofread. Reduplication, such as 'araw-araw' for 'every day', is written with a hyphen. Politeness markers such as 'po' and 'opo' appear often, especially when younger speakers address elders, and they should stay in a verbatim transcript. Times are often spoken in a Spanish-derived way, such as 'alas-nuwebe' for nine o'clock. With timestamps and speaker labels on every turn, a doubtful word is one click from its audio. Originals are deleted within 24 hours and are never used for training.