Dutch audio to text from the Netherlands, Flanders and Suriname
Dutch from the Netherlands, Flemish from Belgium and the Dutch of Suriname all use the same language setting. There is no regional option. The model transcribes what it hears into standard written Dutch.
Flemish speakers often use forms and words that are rare north of the border, such as gij and ge, or everyday Flemish vocabulary. Clear speech in either variety usually transcribes well. The informal in-between register of Flanders, often called tussentaal, may be smoothed toward standard Dutch in places. Strong local dialect, such as broad West Flemish or Limburgish, is harder, and that output should be treated as a draft.
Clear audio matters more than region. Short, unstressed words such as 'n, 't and er almost vanish in fast speech, and they are the first to go missing on a poor phone line or in a noisy room. A speaker close to the mic gives the cleanest result.
Afrikaans is a separate language with its own entry in the language menu. If your recording is in Afrikaans, choose Afrikaans instead of Dutch.
Spelling in the Dutch transcript
Dutch writes compounds as one word, so ziektekostenverzekering or vergaderruimte should appear as single words. A rare or company-specific compound may be split, and that is one of the first things to check.
The transcript uses ij as in standard spelling, and the diaeresis where it belongs, as in België, ideeën and coördinatie. Short forms such as 't, 's and d'r are written with apostrophes when the speaker uses them, though the model sometimes writes the full word instead. Names of places, people and organisations are where most edits happen. Click a line to hear it, then correct the word in place.
Dates, amounts and phone numbers usually appear as digits. Formal u and informal je are both written as spoken, so a transcript shows the register each speaker chose.
All exports keep the special characters: TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT and CSV.
English inside Dutch conversations
Dutch work speech uses a lot of English: meeting, deadline, call, feedback, and whole phrases like to be honest. With Dutch selected, these are usually written in English spelling. Dutch verbs built from English, such as geüpdatet or gecanceld, may not match the spelling your organisation prefers.
Many Dutch and Flemish meetings switch fully to English when an international colleague joins. Choose the language spoken most. The other parts can still come out fine, but switching back and forth is harder than one steady language, so listen back to them.
Auto-detect is in the language menu, but it can misjudge short voice notes or a call that opens in English, and Dutch is close enough to German and Afrikaans for a short clip to be misread. This page sets Dutch for you.
Who transcribes Dutch recordings
Common uses include research interviews for theses at Dutch and Belgian universities, journalists working from recorded interviews, notes from team meetings, Dutch podcasts and videos that need SRT or VTT subtitles, and family recordings with relatives who speak Dutch.
For a thesis, export to DOCX and apply your faculty's transcription conventions while you edit. For subtitles, SRT and VTT follow the timing of the speech. CSV gives one row per line, which is handy for coding interviews in a spreadsheet.
RocketScribe writes the Dutch that was spoken. To read it in English, use the Google Translate link on the transcript. The AI prompt export copies the Dutch text with a prompt for ChatGPT or Claude, so you can ask for an English summary or the action points of a meeting.
Speaker identification is available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack. Your files are never used to train AI models, and you can delete them at any time.