Spanish, Catalan, Basque or Galician: choosing the language
Each of Spain's co-official languages is a separate option, and choosing the right one matters more than anything else on this page.
- Castilian Spanish: keep Spanish selected.
- Catalan from Catalonia and the Balearic Islands, and Valencian from the Valencian Community: choose Catalan. Valencian and Balearic forms are written in standard Catalan spelling, so review local forms if a quote needs them.
- Basque (euskara): choose Basque. It has less training data than Spanish, so read the result as a draft that a speaker should check.
- Galician: choose Galician. Auto-detect can confuse it with Portuguese or Spanish on a short clip, so set it yourself.
- Aranese in the Val d'Aran is a form of Occitan, which is also in the menu. Asturian and Aragonese have no option.
Meetings that switch between Spanish and Catalan or Basque
In Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao or Santiago, one meeting can include two languages, often split by speaker: one person speaks Catalan and the next answers in Spanish. The model handles one language per file best. Choose the language that fills most of the recording, then listen back to the turns in the other one.
When the change comes in long blocks, for example a conference where the first talk is in Basque and the second in Spanish, cut the file with any audio editor and upload each part with its own language. That gives a much cleaner result than forcing both through one setting.
Auto-detect is in the menu, but on a short clip it can mistake Catalan for Spanish, or Galician for Portuguese. Setting the language yourself is the safer choice for any recording from these regions.
Accents within Spain
Andalusian speech drops or aspirates the s at the end of syllables and often drops the d in words like cansado. In the Canary Islands speakers use seseo, closer to Latin American Spanish. Murcian and Extremaduran speech share some of these features. The model usually restores the standard spelling, but plurals and verb endings can suffer on fast, casual audio, so check those where exact wording matters.
Grammar habits such as leísmo in central Spain are written as spoken. If you need standard grammar for a publication, adjust it while editing.
Spanish spoken by Catalan, Basque or Galician speakers often carries words and intonation from their other language. That rarely breaks the transcript, but a Catalan surname or a Basque place name inside Spanish speech is a common spot for errors. Keep a list of the names you expect and search for them once the transcript is ready.
Juntas de vecinos and plenos are often noisy, with people talking over each other. A phone near the chair helps more than anything else.
Typical recordings and a privacy note
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- Clases at the university and interviews for a TFG or TFM.
- Temas recorded by opositores who study by listening, turned into text to revise.
- Juntas de la comunidad de propietarios, where someone has to write the acta.
- Plenos municipales and local radio programmes.
- Family stories recorded in Spanish, Catalan or Galician.
Editing the acta or notes and exporting
Click a line to hear it again and correct it in place. Export TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT or CSV, with timestamps and speaker names on or off. Speaker labels are available on paid plans or with a Minute Pack. The transcript stays in the spoken language. Use the Google Translate link or the AI prompt export when someone needs an English version.