Bulgarian audio to text: what to expect
Bulgarian is supported reasonably well, but the speech model has heard far less Bulgarian than Spanish, German or Russian. A clear recording of one or two people in a quiet room usually gives a draft that needs moderate editing. Phone calls, distant microphones, background music and people talking over each other lower the quality much more than they would for the major European languages.
Formal speech in news clips, lectures and presentations comes out cleanest. Fast casual conversation and strong regional speech from villages need the most correction. In every transcript, check names of people, towns, companies and institutions, plus technical terms and abbreviations, since that is where most mistakes appear.
The editor makes the review quicker. The player highlights the line being spoken, you can click any line to hear it again, and you correct the text in place.
Bulgarian Cyrillic, Russian and Macedonian
The transcript is written in the Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet, including ъ, which Bulgarian uses as a full vowel, and щ. Bulgarian does not use the Russian letters ы, э and ё. If you see them in a transcript, the model has drifted toward Russian for that stretch, and the words around them probably need fixing too.
Auto-detect is the bigger risk. Bulgarian, Russian and Macedonian share many words and all three use Cyrillic, so a short clip or a recording that opens with a greeting can be labeled as the wrong language. The transcript then follows Russian or Macedonian spelling and word forms. This page preselects Bulgarian to avoid that. If your recording is in Macedonian, choose Macedonian in the language picker instead.
- Definite articles are attached to the end of words, as in градът and града. Check these endings, because they are short and easy to mishear in fast speech.
- Numbers, dates and amounts in leva or euro may come out as digits or spelled out.
- Punctuation is added by the model, and long spoken sentences may need extra breaks.
English words and recordings from abroad
Bulgarian speakers in offices and IT teams often mix in English words such as meeting, deadline, feedback or the names of software. These may stay in Latin letters or be written in Cyrillic the way they sound, sometimes both ways in the same file. If consistency matters, plan a quick pass to bring them into one form.
Large Bulgarian communities live in Germany, Spain, the UK, Italy and the US. Families there record parents and grandparents, and speakers often switch into German, Spanish or English for place names and work words. Keep Bulgarian selected when most of the speech is Bulgarian. If a recording is mostly in another language with a few Bulgarian sentences, choose that language for the file instead. You can set the language per file.
Who uses Bulgarian transcription
Common uploads include research interviews for university theses, journalism interviews, recorded lectures, meetings with teams or suppliers in Bulgaria, podcasts, church talks, and YouTube videos that need Bulgarian subtitles. Some people prepare a draft of an interview before a translator works on it. RocketScribe does not claim legal or medical compliance, so have anything important checked by a Bulgarian speaker.
You do not need to convert anything first. MP3, M4A and WAV files, phone videos in MP4 or MOV, and WhatsApp or Telegram voice notes all upload as they are. For the best results, record close to the speaker, turn off the TV or music, and upload the original file rather than a copy forwarded through several chats.
Exports and reading it in English
TXT, DOCX for Word, PDF, SRT, VTT and CSV all keep the Cyrillic text as written. Word suits interview transcripts for a thesis, CSV works for coding interviews in a spreadsheet, and SRT or VTT give you Bulgarian subtitles for a video. Speaker labels are available on paid plans or with a Minute Pack, which helps with interviews and calls.
RocketScribe transcribes Bulgarian in Bulgarian. To read it in English, open the Google Translate link on the transcript. For a summary, translation or notes, use the AI prompt export and paste the prompt into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.