Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia in the transcript
Regional speech in Czechia affects specific letters more than whole words.
- Ostrava and the Lach area: speakers shorten long vowels, so a word with á or í can sound short. The model usually writes the standard long vowel, but check čárky in names and rare words.
- Moravian dialects (Haná, Slovácko, Wallachia) use their own vowels and words, such as Hanák forms with é and ó. These are often written in standard Czech, which changes the speaker's voice in a quote.
- Brno hantec slang (šalina, hokna) is written as heard, but the model may swap it for a similar-sounding standard word.
- Těšín Silesia mixes Czech, Polish and local dialect. Choose the language spoken most and review the rest.
- Prague speech and the common spoken Czech of Bohemia are handled well. In all regions the bigger risk is audio quality: a phone far from the speaker, a radiator humming in a school hall, or two people talking at once.
Other languages spoken in Czechia
Ukrainians are the largest foreign community in Czechia, and many recordings now include Ukrainian or Russian. Choose Ukrainian for Ukrainian speech so it is not written as Czech or Russian. Slovak is common at universities and workplaces, and it has its own option. Czech and Slovak are close, so set it yourself rather than relying on auto-detect.
Vietnamese is spoken by a long-established community, and it is in the menu too. Polish fits recordings from Těšín Silesia. Romani has no option. For a file that changes language in long blocks, cut it and upload each part with its own language.
Interviews with an interpreter are common in social work and research with these communities. If the interpreter's Czech carries most of the content, keep Czech. If both languages are long, split the file and run each part with its own setting.
Auto-detect is in the menu, but a short Czech voice note can be read as Slovak or Polish. Choosing the language yourself avoids a transcript in the wrong spelling, and it takes one click in the upload box.
Typical recordings made in Czechia
Upload audio or video directly, record in the browser, or paste a YouTube link. Audio is pulled out of video automatically.
Council and owners' association meetings are often recorded on one phone in the middle of a long table. People far from it come out faint, so place the phone near the chair or near whoever speaks most. In lecture halls, sit near the front. For a zápis, treat the transcript as a draft that someone who attended reads before it is approved.
- Přednášky recorded by students before the exam period.
- Interviews for a bakalářka or diplomka, exported to Word for the appendix.
- Zasedání zastupitelstva published by the obec, turned into text or subtitles.
- Meetings of an SVJ (owners' association), written up as a zápis.
- Třídní schůzky, church services and family stories recorded on a phone.
Privacy note for Czechia
Czech universities and employers often check GDPR requirements before interviews are uploaded. The fact we can state is that files are never used to train AI models. Questions of data location or certification are outside this page, so if your institution needs answers, confirm them before uploading personal data, and consider replacing names in the editor before sharing.
Checking and exporting the text
The player highlights the current line, and clicking a line plays it again so you can fix it. Export TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT or CSV with timestamps and speaker names on or off. Speaker labels are on paid plans or with a Minute Pack. For English, use the Google Translate link or the AI prompt export with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.