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Ziehen Sie eine Datei in das Upload-Feld: MP3, M4A, WAV, eine WhatsApp-Sprachnachricht oder ein Video als MP4, MOV oder WebM. Bei Videos wird die Tonspur automatisch übernommen. Sie können auch direkt im Browser mit dem Mikrofon aufnehmen oder einen Link von YouTube oder TikTok einfügen. Deutsch ist auf dieser Seite bereits eingestellt.
Nach wenigen Minuten erscheint das Transkript in Absätzen mit Zeitmarken. Der Player hebt die aktuelle Zeile hervor. Ein Klick auf eine Zeile spielt die Stelle ab, und Sie korrigieren das Wort direkt im Text. Danach exportieren Sie als TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT oder CSV. Testen geht ohne Anmeldung, mit einem kostenlosen Konto bleibt das Transkript gespeichert.
German spelling details to check by hand
A speech model hears sounds and has to decide how to write them. In German a handful of decisions come up again and again, and they are the ones a careful reader notices first.
- das and dass sound identical. The model picks one from the sentence, and on long, nested sentences it sometimes picks wrong. A quick search for both words catches most cases.
- Nominalised verbs and adjectives take a capital: beim Lesen, das Gute, im Allgemeinen, nichts Neues. These are easy to miss because the same word is lowercase a sentence earlier.
- Writing words together or apart follows rules that changed over the years: kennenlernen, Rad fahren, zu Hause, so dass or sodass. Pick the form your style guide prefers and make it consistent.
- Commas before subordinate clauses (weil, ob, dass, wenn) and around relative clauses are required in German. Spoken sentences often lose their structure, so the transcript can have too few commas.
- Abbreviations such as z. B., d. h. and usw. are normally written with the periods and, in careful text, a space inside. Speakers say them in full, so you may see zum Beispiel instead.
- Quotation marks follow your house style. German print uses „…“ or »…«, which you may need to set yourself.
Numbers, dates and times in German format
German uses a decimal comma and a period or a space for thousands: 3,5 Prozent, 10.000 Euro, 1 250 000 Einwohner. A transcript can contain a mix of styles, especially when an English term or a percentage was spoken quickly. If figures will be quoted, read each one against the audio.
Dates are written as 4. November 2026 or 04.11.2026, with a period after the day. Ordinals take a period too: der 3. Platz. Amounts like zwölf Euro fünfzig should end up as 12,50 Euro or 12,50 €.
Clock times are a classic trap for non-native readers. Halb drei means 2:30, not 3:30, and Viertel nach acht or regional forms such as viertel neun (8:15 in parts of eastern and southern Germany) may be written out as words. Convert them to 14:30 or 8:15 if a schedule or minutes depend on them.
Checklist before you publish or hand it in
Most German transcripts need the same short pass before they go into a report, a thesis appendix or a subtitle file. Keep the audio open and work through this list.
- Search for das and dass and confirm each one.
- Check names of people, firms, streets and towns, and spell them once correctly before fixing the rest.
- Make number, date and time formats consistent.
- Decide on Sie or du in direct quotes and check the capital in the formal form.
- Add missing commas in long sentences that will be quoted.
- For subtitles, read the SRT once in your video editor so long German compounds do not break a line badly.
- Turn timestamps or speaker names on or off in the export, depending on who receives the file.
Typical German recordings
Recordings that people upload in German include expert interviews (Experteninterviews) for a Master's thesis, lecture captures downloaded from a university's learning platform as MP4, minutes of club and association meetings (Vereinssitzungen), parish talks, local council sessions, podcasts, and voice notes from family members. Speaker labels, which show who said what in an interview or meeting, are available on paid plans or with a Minute Pack.