Zo zet je audio om naar tekst
Sleep een bestand naar het uploadvak: MP3, M4A, WAV, een WhatsApp-spraakbericht of een video in MP4, MOV of WebM. Bij video wordt het geluid automatisch overgenomen. Je kunt ook opnemen met de microfoon in je browser of een link van YouTube of TikTok plakken. Nederlands is op deze pagina al gekozen.
Na een paar minuten verschijnt de tekst in alinea's met tijdcodes. De speler markeert de regel die je hoort. Klik op een regel om dat stuk opnieuw te beluisteren en verbeter het woord direct in de tekst. Exporteer daarna naar TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT of CSV. Proberen kan zonder account, en met een gratis account blijft de transcriptie bewaard.
Dutch spelling traps in a transcript
Several Dutch spelling choices cannot be heard at all. The model chooses from the sentence, and these are the spots that teachers, editors and examiners still mark in red.
- d/t endings: hij wordt and word jij, het gebeurt and het is gebeurd, ik verhuis and hij verhuist. They sound the same, so check every verb that ends in a d or t sound.
- ei and ij, au and ou: reizen and rijzen, hij leidt and hij lijdt. Rare words and surnames are most at risk.
- Linking -n- and -s- in compounds: pannenkoek, zonnebloem, stadsbestuur. The rules are not phonetic, so look up any compound you are unsure about.
- Hyphens where vowels meet: zee-egel, auto-industrie, na-apen. A transcript may run these together.
- IJ as one letter at the start of a name: IJsselmeer, IJmuiden. Writing Ijsselmeer is a giveaway of unchecked text.
- Lowercase days and months: maandag, november. Language names and their adjectives keep a capital: het Engels, Engelse woorden. Spelled-out numbers like tweeëntwintig take a diaeresis.
Numbers, dates and times in Dutch format
Dutch writes a decimal comma and a period for thousands: 3,5 procent, 10.000 inwoners, € 12,50. A transcript can contain English-style figures as well, so read every number that ends up in a report.
Dates are written 4 november 2026 or 4-11-2026, day first. Times are written 14.30 or 14:30 uur.
Phone numbers (06-12345678) and postcodes (1012 AB) are often read out in pieces. Check the grouping, and the two letters of a postcode, against the audio.
Half drie means 2:30, not 3:30, and kwart over acht and tien voor half negen (8:20) are common in speech. The transcript writes what was said, which is correct Dutch but easy for international colleagues to misread. Convert these to clock times in schedules and minutes.
Checklist before you send it
Keep the audio open and go through these points. It is the quickest way to get a transcript fit for a report or a thesis appendix.
- Check every d/t ending in verbs, especially wordt, gebeurt and vindt.
- Check names of people, gemeenten, streets and organisations.
- Fix compounds, linking letters and hyphens.
- Write IJ as one capital in names.
- Make number, date and time formats consistent, and convert half drie style times if needed.
- For subtitles, read the SRT in your video editor before publishing.
- Turn timestamps or speaker names on or off at export.
Dutch recordings that come in
Common uploads include interviews for a scriptie, recorded colleges, minutes (notulen) of a club's general meeting or a gemeenteraad session, podcasts and WhatsApp voice messages. Flemish recordings use the same Dutch setting. Speaker labels that show who said what are available on paid plans or with a Minute Pack.
For a scriptie appendix, keep timestamps on so your begeleider can trace each quote back to the recording. For notulen, switch timestamps off and keep the speaker names. The CSV export gives one row per line, which suits coding interviews in a spreadsheet.