Who uses Korean audio to text
Korean transcripts are needed by more people than you might expect. Korean studies researchers interview participants in Korean. Businesses in the US and Europe hold calls with partners in Seoul. Translators and subtitlers want a clean Korean script before they start. Korean learners record tutoring sessions. Korean-American and Korean-European families record parents and grandparents, and churches and community groups post sermons and events online.
Korean is one of the languages the speech model handles well. With clear audio you get a transcript that needs only light editing, split into paragraphs with timestamps and a player that follows along as you read.
What the Hangul output looks like
The transcript is written in Hangul with normal punctuation. Hanja (Chinese characters) are not used. A few points to check when you edit:
- Word spacing. Korean spacing rules are strict, and the model's spacing is not always what a careful editor would choose, especially around particles and auxiliary verbs. For published text, a pass with a spelling and spacing checker helps.
- Numbers may appear as digits or written out in Korean, and native Korean numbers (하나, 둘) and Sino-Korean numbers (일, 이) can be mixed depending on how they were spoken.
- Names of people, companies and places are the most common errors. Fix each one once you have confirmed the spelling.
- English loanwords usually come out in Hangul (컴퓨터, 미팅). English words said as English, such as product names or acronyms, may stay in Latin letters.
Speech styles, dialects and mixed English
Standard Seoul Korean in a quiet room transcribes best. Regional speech such as Gyeongsang or Jeolla dialect works but needs more review, and dialect endings may be written in a more standard form. Fast casual speech among friends, with overlapping laughter and short replies, is harder than a lecture or a news segment.
Korean speakers abroad often mix English into Korean sentences, especially at work. Keep the language set to Korean when most of the speech is Korean. Switching languages mid-sentence is harder than one language, so check the English words during review.
If several people speak, speaker identification on paid plans or with a Minute Pack adds labels for who said what. You can rename the labels to real names in the editor.
Speech levels and honorifics come through as spoken, so a formal interview stays in polite endings and a chat among friends stays in casual ones. Fillers such as 음 and 어 are often left out, which makes the text easier to read but means it is not a strictly verbatim record. If your research needs every hesitation, check against the audio.
Language choice and what to do next
This page preselects Korean so the model does not have to guess. Auto-detect can misjudge short clips or recordings that open in English, and setting the language avoids a wasted run. You can change it per file before uploading.
Export TXT or DOCX for notes, quotes and translation, SRT or VTT for subtitles on YouTube or your own site, or CSV to analyse interview segments. All of these keep Hangul intact, and the timestamps line up with the audio so a subtitle file is ready to load once the text is correct. The direct PDF supports Western European characters only, so for Korean the PDF option opens a print-ready page that you save as PDF in your browser.
For readers who do not know Korean, the Google Translate link shows the transcript in English. The AI prompt export copies the transcript with a prompt you can paste into ChatGPT or Claude to summarise a long meeting or pull out quotes.