Turkish audio to text with the right letters
The transcript uses standard Turkish spelling with ç, ğ, ı, İ, ö, ş and ü. The difference between dotted i and dotless ı matters in Turkish, and the transcript keeps both.
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and CSV keep every character as written. The direct PDF supports Western European characters only, so for Turkish text the PDF option opens a print-ready page. Use your browser's Save as PDF from there. For a file you will keep editing, DOCX is simpler.
Suffixes change the meaning, so check them
Turkish is one of the languages the speech model handles well. Clear speech usually gives a transcript that needs only light correction. Because Turkish adds tense, person and negation as suffixes, though, a small mishearing can flip the meaning while the word still looks correct. Geldi and gelmedi differ by one short syllable, yet one means came and the other didn't come.
In passages you plan to quote, or where a yes or no matters, listen to the line again. The synced player highlights the current line, and clicking a line jumps the audio there. Names, company names and place names are the other common corrections. Spoken numbers and dates may come out as digits or as words, so check them in contracts, prices and schedules.
Turkish mixed with German or English
Turkish speakers in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, the UK and the US often mix in words from the local language, and some switch languages within one sentence. Single German or English words inside Turkish speech are usually written in their own spelling. Long passages in another language are harder in a file set to Turkish, so review them more closely.
This page preselects Turkish. Auto-detect decides from the opening of the file, so a recording that starts in German or English, such as a teacher greeting parents before switching to Turkish, may be transcribed in the wrong language. If most of a recording is in German or English, change the language in the upload box. When the languages come in long separate blocks, you can cut the file and upload each part with its own language.
Regional accents and recording tips
Istanbul Turkish, the standard used on national TV, gives the cleanest result. Black Sea, Eastern and Southeastern accents and Cypriot Turkish differ in vowels and word forms and produce more errors, mostly in local words and expressions. There is no accent setting. One model handles every variety, so the recording itself is what you can improve:
- Hold the phone or microphone close to the speaker, especially in family recordings with several people in the room.
- Switch off the television, music or tea-house background noise if you can.
- Record calls on your side with a headset rather than through speakerphone.
- Ask people to avoid talking over each other in the parts you need exactly.
Who uses Turkish transcripts and how
Turkish audio comes from migration and sociology research interviews, journalists' recorded calls, family history recordings, podcasts and YouTube channels that need subtitles, and business calls with suppliers or partners in Turkey.
Export DOCX to edit and quote in Word, SRT or VTT for timed subtitles, and CSV for a spreadsheet with one timed line per row. Timestamps and speaker names can be switched on or off for each export. Speaker labels that show who said what are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
For readers who don't know Turkish, use the Google Translate link on the transcript to read it in English, or the AI prompt export to ask ChatGPT or Claude for an English summary of the Turkish text.