Brazilian Portuguese and the language setting
Brazilian Portuguese, often written PT-BR, is the Portuguese of more than 200 million people in Brazil and the variety most heard online, from YouTube channels to podcasts and lives. It shares one written standard with Portugal, but sounds very different and has its own spelling habits and vocabulary.
In the upload box it falls under Portuguese, code pt, which this page selects. There is no PT-BR switch, so the transcript simply follows how the speaker talks. Brazilian Portuguese is one of the languages the speech model handles well, and clear audio gives a strong draft that mainly needs names and terms checked.
Accents from different parts of Brazil
Brazil is large, and regional accents change how words sound more than how they are written. The model has heard plenty of them, but each brings its own small traps.
- Carioca speech from Rio turns many final s sounds into sh, as in mesmo said like mejmo. Words are still written in standard form.
- Speakers from Rio Grande do Sul often use tu with third-person verbs, as in tu vai. The transcript may keep this or quietly change it to você vai, so check quotes.
- Mineiro speech clips words heavily: cê for você, uai, and whole phrases run together. Expect more edits on fast Minas Gerais conversation.
- Nordestino accents from Recife, Salvador or Fortaleza have open vowels and their own vocabulary, such as oxente or arretado, which may be misheard on poor audio.
Slang, fillers and spelling rules
Casual Brazilian talk is full of gírias and fillers: mano, cara, tipo assim, então, beleza. The draft may keep them, shorten them or leave some out. For a verbatim research transcript, listen for them. For an article or subtitles, you may prefer to remove them while editing.
The 2009 spelling agreement changed some Brazilian spellings: the trema went (linguiça, not lingüiça), and words like ideia, heroico and voo lost their accents. Most output follows the current rules, but older forms occasionally slip in. If you are submitting a TCC, dissertation or publication, do a quick read for these.
Business speech in São Paulo borrows English freely, with words like deadline, feedback, call and budget. These usually stay in English spelling.
Lives and long streams often have music, sound effects or comments read aloud between stretches of talk. You do not need to trim the file first, but expect a few lines of noise where music plays and delete them during review.
Numbers, money and typical recordings
Brazil writes money as R$ 1.500,00, with a dot for thousands and a comma for decimals. Spoken amounts like mil e quinhentos reais may come out as words, as digits, or in a different format. Phone numbers, CPF numbers and dates are worth checking against the audio before you use them.
People in Brazil and the Brazilian community abroad upload qualitative interviews for a TCC or master's research, YouTube videos and lives that need legendas, podcasts, church services, classes, and client calls. You can upload audio or video, record in the browser, or paste a YouTube or TikTok link.
Editing and exporting
Follow the highlighted line as the recording plays and click any line to correct it in place. Export DOCX or TXT for text, SRT or VTT for subtitles, PDF for a fixed copy, or CSV for coding interviews, with timestamps and speaker names toggled as you like. Speaker labels are on paid plans or with a Minute Pack.
RocketScribe transcribes in Portuguese and does not translate. Use the Google Translate link or the AI prompt export with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to read it in English. Files are never used to train AI models.