Transcribe Turkish audio to text

Turkish builds meaning by stacking suffixes on a root, so a single word can express a whole clause. In a transcript, that produces long words that can look suspicious to readers used to short ones, yet they are correct. Where the draft goes wrong, the error is usually inside the suffix, for example a different vowel harmony pattern, so look carefully at endings when you proofread.

Two letters deserve special attention: dotted İ and dotless ı. They are separate letters, and the pair changes meaning and capitalisation, which is a classic problem for search and sorting. If you plan to search the transcript, test with a few Turkish words that contain them.

Recordings usually come from university lectures, TV and online video, business calls, and interviews with people across Turkey, as well as diaspora communities in Germany and elsewhere. Speakers often mix in Arabic, Persian or English loanwords, and sometimes code-switch to German or Kurdish. Passages in another language may need a manual check.

Speaker labels help in interviews and panels, and the editable text can be exported as DOCX, PDF, TXT, SRT or VTT. Accuracy varies with audio quality, accents and background noise.