Brazilian and European Portuguese audio to text
Brazilian Portuguese and the Portuguese of Portugal use the same language setting. You do not pick a variety. The model transcribes what it hears into written Portuguese, and the same goes for speakers from Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde.
The two main varieties sound quite different. Brazilian speech tends to keep its vowels open and clear. European Portuguese reduces many unstressed vowels, so syllables can almost disappear in fast, casual talk. On clear audio both transcribe well. On a quick phone call or a noisy recording, European Portuguese usually needs a bit more checking.
Everyday vocabulary also differs: ônibus and autocarro, trem and comboio, celular and telemóvel. Words are written as they were spoken, so a transcript reflects the speaker's own variety.
Pronouns and verb forms follow the speaker too. Brazilians mostly use você and a gente, while speakers in Portugal use tu with its own verb forms far more often. The transcript keeps whichever the speaker used, which matters when you quote someone.
Spelling, accents and spoken forms in the transcript
The transcript uses ã, õ, ç, á, â, ê, ô and à where standard spelling needs them. The spelling agreement shared by Portuguese-speaking countries has removed most differences, but a few remain, such as fato and facto, or econômico and económico. The model does not always follow one norm consistently. If a document must match Brazilian or European conventions, read through for those words.
Casual speech is full of short forms like tá, pra and né. Depending on the speaker and context, the transcript may keep the spoken form or write a fuller one such as está or para. If you need a strictly verbatim transcript, compare those spots with the audio.
Dates, prices and phone numbers usually appear as digits. Names of people, neighbourhoods and companies are where most corrections happen. Click any line to jump to that point in the player and fix the word in place.
All exports keep the accented letters: TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT and CSV.
Portuguese or Spanish? Why the language is preselected
Portuguese and Spanish are close enough that auto-detect can mix them up on a short clip. The same can happen with a speaker who drifts into Portunhol, or a recording that starts in English before switching. This page sets Portuguese for you, so the whole file is treated as Portuguese. You can change it in the language menu.
Many Brazilians and Portuguese in the US and the rest of Europe mix English into their speech, especially at work. Keep Portuguese selected when it is the main language. English words inside Portuguese sentences are usually written as spoken. Long English passages can come out fine too, but frequent switching is harder than one steady language, so listen back to those parts.
What people transcribe in Portuguese
Common recordings include interviews for journalism and academic research, Brazilian and Portuguese podcasts that need SRT or VTT subtitles, church sermons and community events, client calls at businesses with Portuguese-speaking customers, and family recordings with relatives back home.
For WhatsApp voice notes, which many Brazilians use all day, upload the audio file the app exports. Short notes are where choosing Portuguese yourself helps most.
If the transcript is for subtitles, export SRT or VTT. For quotes and reports, DOCX keeps the paragraphs and optional timestamps, and CSV gives one row per line for a spreadsheet.
To read a transcript in English, use the Google Translate link on the transcript. RocketScribe itself writes down the Portuguese that was spoken. The AI prompt export copies the text with a prompt you can paste into ChatGPT or Claude for an English summary. Speaker identification is available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.