How regional pronunciation shows up in the text
Some features of regional Italian change how words sound at the boundary between them, and that is where the transcript can slip.
- Raddoppiamento sintattico in central and southern Italy doubles the first consonant after certain words, so a casa sounds like accasa. The model normally writes the two words correctly, but a rare name after a, è or tre can pick up an extra letter.
- Tuscan gorgia softens c between vowels, so la casa sounds like la hasa. Clear Florentine speech is usually fine. Fast, casual Tuscan talk needs a closer look at words with c and t.
- Northern speakers often shorten double consonants. Pairs like note and notte depend on context, so check them in technical or legal passages.
- Open and closed e and o vary by region. That does not affect most spelling, but the accent on words like perché and poiché is worth a glance.
Other languages spoken in Italy
In South Tyrol much daily life runs in German, often in a dialect that is hard for any model. Choose German for those recordings and treat dialect passages as a draft. In Trieste and Gorizia, Slovenian has its own option. In the Aosta Valley, French is an option too.
Sardinian, Friulian and Ladin have no option. Arbëreshë, the old Albanian spoken in villages in Calabria and Sicily, differs a lot from modern Albanian, so the Albanian option gives a rough result at best.
Local dialects such as Neapolitan or Venetian are a separate question from accent. Where a speaker switches fully into dialect, mark the timestamps and fill those lines in by ear, or ask a relative from the same area to help.
Auto-detect is in the menu, but on a short clip it can confuse Italian with Spanish or Romanian. Set the language yourself for each file.
Italy also has large Romanian, Albanian, Arabic-speaking, Chinese and Ukrainian communities. Each of those languages is in the menu. Pick the one that fills most of the file, and if a recording changes language in long blocks, split it and upload each part separately.
Typical recordings made in Italy
Upload the audio or video file directly, record in the browser, or paste a YouTube link. Audio is pulled out of video automatically.
Condominium and council meetings tend to have several people talking at once, which hurts any transcript. A phone near the chair, and a habit of letting one person speak at a time, gives a much cleaner draft. For lectures, sit near the front or record the microphone feed if the university provides one.
- Lezioni universitarie recorded by students who share notes before exams.
- Interviews for a tesi di laurea, exported to Word for the appendix.
- Assemblee di condominio, where one owner has to write the verbale.
- Consiglio comunale sessions posted online by the comune.
- Local radio, parish talks and podcasts that need Italian subtitles.
Privacy note for Italy
Before uploading interviews or meetings with personal data, many universities and administrators check GDPR requirements. Recordings you upload are never used to train AI models. Data location and certification are not covered on this page, so if your institution requires them, confirm them first. Replacing names in the editor before sharing a transcript is a simple extra step.
Working with the finished transcript
The player highlights the line being spoken. Click a line to hear it again and fix it. Export TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT or CSV with timestamps and speaker names on or off. Speaker labels need a paid plan or a Minute Pack. For an English reading, use the Google Translate link or the AI prompt export with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini.