What people record in Denmark
A large share of Danish recordings come from universities. Students at Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg and Odense interview informants for their speciale or bachelor project, and group projects at Aalborg and Roskilde often record supervisor meetings and group discussions. These files are usually one interviewer and one participant on a phone or laptop, which gives a good draft when the phone sits close to both people.
Outside education, common uploads include workplace meetings, kommunalbestyrelse and committee meetings recorded from a single room microphone, local podcasts, church talks, and interviews for local newspapers. Families bring recordings of grandparents telling stories about the farm, the war years or emigration, often from old cassettes copied to MP3.
Room recordings of council meetings are the hardest of these. Speakers sit far from the microphone and talk over each other, so expect more corrections in those files than in a one-to-one interview.
German, Faroese, English and other languages in Denmark
Danish is the main language, but recordings made in Denmark are not always in Danish. Each file is transcribed in the one language you choose, so pick the language most of the recording is spoken in:
- German: the German minority in Sønderjylland uses German in schools, associations and church. Choose German for those recordings.
- Faroese: Faroese is a separate option in the language list. It has far less training data than Danish, so treat the result as a draft and review it fully.
- Greenlandic: Greenlandic is not in the language list. If speakers switch to Danish, choose Danish and transcribe those parts.
- English: many master's programmes and international companies in Denmark run in English. A lecture or meeting held in English should be set to English.
- Swedish: commuters and teams in the Øresund region mix Danish and Swedish. Choose the language of the main speaker, or split the file if each speaker sticks to their own language.
- Arabic, Turkish, Polish and other languages spoken in Danish homes are all in the list. Choose them directly for family or research interviews held in those languages.
Regional speech inside Denmark
The model writes standard Danish spelling (rigsdansk) whatever the region. Funen speech has its own sing-song melody and usually comes through well. West Jutlandic puts the article æ in front of the noun (æ hus rather than huset), and the transcript may turn those forms into standard Danish or misread them. If you are documenting the dialect itself, listen through and restore the local forms by hand.
Young speakers in Copenhagen and Aarhus often use a street style mixed with Arabic and English words. Those loanwords have no fixed spelling, so the transcript may write them several ways. Older speakers from rural areas speak more slowly but use local words that the model may replace with a similar standard word, so check sentences that read oddly.
Privacy and consent for Danish recordings
Your files are never used to train AI models. RocketScribe does not make claims about where files are stored or about formal certifications, so if a recording contains personal data, check your university's or employer's data rules before uploading. Danish universities usually ask students to register interview data and get consent from participants.
Keep consent with the recording, upload only what you need, and remove names from the exported text if your project requires anonymised quotes. You can edit any line in place before exporting.
From upload to a finished transcript
Upload the file as it is: an M4A from an iPhone, an MP3 from a dictaphone, or an MP4 from a Teams or Zoom meeting. Audio is taken out of video automatically. You can also record straight from the browser with your microphone.
The transcript appears in paragraphs with timestamps, and the player highlights the line being spoken. Click a line to hear it again and fix it. Export DOCX for your thesis appendix, CSV for coding interviews by theme, or SRT and VTT for subtitles. Timestamps and speaker names can be turned on or off in each export. Speaker labels are available on paid plans or with a Minute Pack.
If a supervisor or colleague does not read Danish, the Google Translate link shows the text in English, and the AI prompt export copies the transcript with a ready-made prompt for ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.