Haitian Creole results: an honest view
Haitian Creole has much less training data in the speech model than French or Spanish. Clear speech from one person gives a draft that saves typing, but plan to review every line. Fast conversation, call-in radio, compas or konpa music behind the voice and noisy phone calls produce many more errors. Names are the most common correction. Proverbs and expressions that rely on wordplay are another, since a single misheard word can change the meaning.
Upload the recording as it is: MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG, OPUS, FLAC, a voice message or a phone recording. You can also record from your microphone in the upload box. Nothing needs converting first.
The transcript opens next to a player that highlights the current line. Click a line to hear it again, correct the word in place, and your changes save automatically.
Kreyòl spelling
Haitian Creole has a phonetic official spelling, which helps, but the model does not always follow it. Watch for:
- French spellings creeping in, such as bonjour where Kreyòl writes bonjou, or est-ce que for èske.
- The accented vowels è and ò, which distinguish words; they may be dropped.
- Nasal vowels written an, en and on, and the difference between en and ènn.
- Short pronouns and markers (mwen, m, li, l, ap, te) joined to or split from the next word.
French and English in Kreyòl recordings
Educated and formal speech in Haiti mixes in French, and the diaspora in Miami, New York, Boston and Montreal mixes in English or French depending on the city. Short borrowed words usually come through. Keep Haitian Creole selected when most of the recording is Kreyòl; choose French for a French sermon or speech with some Kreyòl.
Auto-detect often picks French for Kreyòl, especially on short clips, so set the language yourself as this page does.
Who transcribes Haitian Creole
People bring church sermons and prayer meetings, interviews with immigrants for community, legal-aid or research projects, school meetings with parents, radio talk segments, and voice messages from family in Haiti. RocketScribe does not claim legal compliance, so have anything important checked by a fluent speaker.
Export TXT, DOCX, PDF, CSV, SRT or VTT, with timestamps and speaker names switched on or off per export. Speaker labels are available on paid plans or with a Minute Pack.
For video files, see the Haitian Creole video to text page.