Getting Danish video transcribed
Drop in the video file without converting it: MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI, 3GP or a screen recording from your phone. The sound is pulled out on our server, and every timestamp points to the same moment in the original video. If the video is online, use Import from link: public YouTube, TikTok and Vimeo videos, Dropbox and Google Drive share links and direct file links all work. Only the audio is fetched, one video per link, and several links can wait in the queue.
Several recordings can be uploaded at once, such as a week of lecture captures, and each one opens as its own transcript next to a player.
Spoken Danish is hard to hear
Danish swallows consonants, uses the stød, and blurs word endings, so even native listeners rewind. The model handles clear Danish well, but fast conversation, mumbled endings and overlapping talk produce more errors than in Swedish or Norwegian of the same quality. Word boundaries and compound words (written as one word in Danish) are worth checking.
Strong Jutlandic, Funen or Bornholm dialect is written in standard spelling and may be misheard. English is common in business, tech and youth speech, and those words usually come out in English spelling. Clear speech from a good microphone gives a good draft that needs a moderate read.
Danish videos people transcribe
Typical uploads:
- Lectures and recorded classes, for notes and exam revision.
- Interviews filmed for a bachelor's project or speciale.
- YouTube and TikTok videos that need Danish subtitles (undertekster).
- Recorded Teams and Zoom meetings, for a referat.
- Webinars and training videos, to turn into written guides.
Danish subtitles and documents
Export SRT or VTT for Danish subtitles in YouTube Studio, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or VLC; æ, ø and å are kept in UTF-8. Correct the transcript first, because the subtitle lines are built from it.
DOCX and PDF suit a referat or an appendix, and CSV lists every line with its start time. Speaker labels are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
Translation and the audio page
The transcript is written in Danish as it was spoken; nothing is translated. To read it in English, open the Google Translate link on the transcript, or use the AI prompt export to hand the text to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. For recordings without video, see the Danish audio to text page.