Greek audio to text in the Greek alphabet
The transcript is written in the Greek alphabet with standard monotonic spelling, including the tonos accent marks. It does not produce Greeklish or a Latin transliteration. If you need names in Latin letters for an English report, add them yourself while editing.
Greek is one of the languages where results depend more on recording quality. Clear speech from a good microphone gives a usable draft. Noisy or distant audio leads to more mistakes, especially in surnames, place names and words that differ only in stress. Plan to review those against the audio. Click any line in the transcript and the player jumps to that point. Numbers, dates and amounts may come out as digits or as words, so check them where they matter.
Exporting Greek text
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and CSV keep every Greek character exactly as written, so you can open the Word file or load subtitles into a video editor without encoding problems.
PDF works slightly differently. The direct PDF supports Western European characters only, so for a Greek transcript the PDF option opens a print-ready page instead. Use your browser's Save as PDF to get the file. If you need to keep editing, DOCX is the better choice.
Accents and regional Greek
Standard Modern Greek, as heard on Athens radio and television, gives the most reliable result. Cypriot Greek, Cretan speech and other strong regional varieties use different sounds and words and produce more errors. Pontic Greek is further from the standard again, so expect a draft that needs real editing.
There is no dialect setting. The same model handles all of them, so a clear recording is your best lever:
- Keep the microphone near the speaker, especially with older relatives who speak softly.
- Turn off the television or radio in the room before recording.
- Record phone calls on your own side with a headset instead of through speakerphone.
- Let people finish before the next person speaks in parts you need word for word.
Greek and English in one recording
Greek families and communities in the US, UK, Germany and elsewhere often switch between Greek and English, sometimes inside one sentence. Single English words in Greek speech usually come out in Latin letters. Longer English passages are harder in a file set to Greek, so read them closely.
This page preselects Greek. Auto-detect decides from the start of a file, and a recording that opens in English, such as a grandchild introducing an interview, can be labelled as English. If most of the conversation is in English, change the language in the upload box to English instead.
Speakers who have lived abroad for decades sometimes give English words Greek endings. Those hybrid words may come out in Greek letters, in Latin letters or as a nearby Greek word, so read them closely if they matter.
Who transcribes Greek audio, and what they do next
Typical files include family history interviews, university research interviews, podcasts and YouTube videos that need subtitles, recorded lectures, and business calls with partners in Greece or Cyprus. Speaker labels that show who said what are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
Export DOCX to edit and quote in Word, SRT or VTT for timed subtitles, and CSV for a spreadsheet of timed lines, which helps when you code interview answers by theme. Timestamps and speaker names can be switched on or off for each export, so one transcript can give you both a clean reading copy and a timed version.
To share the content with someone who doesn't read Greek, use the Google Translate link on the transcript to read it in English, or the AI prompt export to paste the Greek text into ChatGPT or Claude and ask for a summary in English.