Kazakh audio to text: what to expect
Kazakh is a mid-resource language for the speech model. Clear speech from one or two people gives a usable draft, but expect to read it carefully. Long words with several suffixes, names and numbers are the usual corrections, and noise or music lowers quality. Vowel harmony helps a little: when a suffix comes out with the wrong vowel, it is usually easy to spot and fix while you listen.
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.
Cyrillic, the new Latin alphabet and special letters
The transcript is written in Kazakh Cyrillic, which is still the most widely used script. Kazakhstan is moving to a Latin alphabet, but the model does not output it, so convert the text yourself if you need Latin spelling.
Kazakh Cyrillic has nine letters beyond Russian: ә, ғ, қ, ң, ө, ұ, ү, һ and і. The model sometimes writes the nearest Russian letter instead, for example к for қ or у for ұ. These are the first things to check during review. Exports are UTF-8, so all letters are kept. Russian loanwords that keep Russian letters such as ё, ц or щ are normal in Kazakh writing and do not need changing.
Russian in Kazakh recordings
In Almaty, Astana and much of the north, people switch between Kazakh and Russian, often inside one sentence. Russian words in a Kazakh recording may keep Russian spelling or be bent toward Kazakh. Choose by what dominates:
- Mostly Kazakh: keep Kazakh selected.
- Mostly Russian with Kazakh phrases: choose Russian.
- Short clips: set the language yourself, since auto-detect may pick Russian or another Turkic language.
Common Kazakh recordings and exports
People bring university lectures, research and journalism interviews, podcasts, aitys and poetry recordings, business meetings and voice messages from family. Recordings from Kazakh communities in Mongolia, China and Uzbekistan are transcribed with the same setting, in Cyrillic, though regional accents may need more correction.
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 Kazakh video to text page.