Georgian audio to text: what you get
Georgian is a low-resource language for speech models, and its long words with many prefixes and suffixes make errors more likely. The output is a rough draft that needs a full review. Check every name, place and technical term, and expect word endings to need fixing.
A single speaker near the microphone in a quiet room gives the most usable draft: a lecture, a dictated text, a one-on-one interview. Supra toasts recorded across a busy table, phone calls, overlapping speakers and singing give much weaker output. For those, use the timestamps to find your place while you type the correct text.
Correcting a draft is still quicker than typing Georgian from the start, especially if you do not use a Georgian keyboard every day. Play the file, follow the highlighted line, and click any line to hear it again. For a publication, a thesis quote or an official document, ask a native speaker to read the final text, because one wrong consonant or ending can change the meaning of a verb.
Georgian script in the transcript
The transcript is written in Mkhedruli, the everyday Georgian script. These are the points to check during review.
- Georgian has no capital letters, so the transcript has none. If you want all-caps headings in Mtavruli, add them yourself.
- Ejective and plain consonants, such as კ and ქ, პ and ფ, ტ and თ, or წ and ც, are easy to swap in fast speech.
- Verb prefixes and case endings may be cut off, merged into the next word or split from their word.
- Russian and English loanwords may be written in Georgian letters, Latin or Cyrillic, or misheard as Georgian words.
- Numbers may come out as digits or as words. Georgian counts in twenties (ოცდაათი is twenty and ten), so check long numbers and years carefully.
- Personal names and surnames ending in -შვილი or -ძე usually come through, but the root of the name often needs correcting.
Auto-detect and related languages
Georgian sounds unlike its neighbors, so auto-detect rarely confuses it with Armenian or Turkish. The risk is a short clip, or one that opens in Russian or English, being transcribed in that language. This page preselects Georgian to avoid that.
Megrelian, Svan and Laz are related to Georgian but are not options in the language list. With Georgian selected, speech in these languages will come out as a poor approximation in Georgian letters, so a full transcription of it has to be typed by someone who speaks it.
Mixing and who uploads
Older speakers often mix in Russian words, younger ones English. Choose the language by what dominates the file. If a meeting is mostly English with some Georgian, choose English for that file.
Georgians in Greece, Italy, Spain, Germany and the US upload family recordings and calls home. In Georgia, common uploads are university lectures, journalist and research interviews, church talks, podcasts, and YouTube videos that need Georgian subtitles.
Uploading and exporting
WhatsApp voice notes, phone recordings and MP4 or MOV videos upload as they are, with audio pulled out of video automatically. The transcript is split into timestamped paragraphs and the player highlights the current line. Click a line to hear it again and fix it in place.
TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT and CSV exports keep the Georgian script. To read the content in English, open the Google Translate link on the transcript, or use the AI prompt export with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Speaker labels are available on paid plans or with a Minute Pack. Your files are never used to train AI models.