Transcribe Vietnamese audio to text
Upload a Vietnamese recording and get an editable transcript with timestamps and speaker labels, ready to export as TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT or VTT.
Spoken language
Tiếng Việt
What Vietnamese looks like on the page
Cuộc họp bắt đầu lúc chín giờ. EN The meeting starts at nine o'clock. An example sentence for illustration, not transcript output.
Notes on Vietnamese
- Script
- Latin alphabet (chữ Quốc ngữ) with stacked diacritics for vowels and tones
- Direction
- Left to right
- Tones
- Six tones in the northern standard, marked on the vowel
- Regional speech
- Northern, central and southern accents differ in sounds and some vocabulary
Vietnamese looks familiar at first glance, since it uses a Latin alphabet, but every syllable is topped with tone marks and extra vowel signs, and those carry meaning. A word such as "ma" can mean ghost, mother, but, tomb, horse or rice seedling depending on the tone mark. The transcript therefore depends on those marks, and any that are lost or wrong are worth catching.
Spoken Vietnamese is made of short syllables that are written separately, so a transcript can look like a long run of small words. That is the normal look of the language. Names are the same: family name first, then middle and given names, each a syllable, which is why unifying spellings with find and replace saves time.
Accents shift noticeably between Hanoi, Huế and Ho Chi Minh City, in both tones and consonants. Recordings often come from interviews, university lectures, customer calls and online video. Many files mix in English business terms.
Accuracy varies with audio quality, accents and background noise, so check a short clip first. Speaker labels keep interviews readable, and the transcript can be exported as DOCX, PDF, TXT, SRT or VTT.
Questions
Are Vietnamese tone marks included?
Yes. Tone marks are part of spelling, and a wrong mark gives a different word. Replay doubtful passages using the timestamps.
Does it handle southern and central accents?
Accents vary by region. Results vary with accent, audio quality and background noise, so test a clip from each speaker.
How are Vietnamese names handled?
Names are short syllables separated by spaces, and the family name comes first. Use find and replace to unify spellings and order.
Can I produce Vietnamese subtitles?
Yes. Transcribe your video and export SRT or VTT. Check line lengths for diacritic-heavy text in your player.
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