Getting a Turkmen video in
Drop in the video file without converting it: MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI, 3GP or a screen recording from your phone. The audio is pulled out on our server, so every timestamp still points to the right moment in the video. If the video is online, choose Import from link and paste a public link from YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, Dropbox or Google Drive, or a direct link to the file; only the sound is downloaded.
Instagram and IMO videos can be saved to the phone and uploaded as files. The draft opens next to a player; click a line to replay it.
Latin letters and a rough draft
Turkmen has very little training data in the speech model. Expect a rough draft with many corrections, best on slow, clear speech by one person. The modern Turkmen alphabet is Latin with ä, ç, ž, ň, ö, ş, ü and ý, and the model often swaps these for plain letters or for Turkish spellings, so much of the editing is restoring them.
Older family recordings and videos from Turkmen communities in Iran or Afghanistan may use vocabulary and accents the model knows even less. Russian words and phrases are common in urban speech, and those are often written in Russian spelling or garbled. If a video is mostly Turkish, use the Turkish page instead.
Turkmen videos people transcribe
Typical uploads:
- Wedding toasts and family celebrations filmed on a phone.
- Video messages from relatives working in Turkey or Russia.
- Interviews and talks, for quotes and research.
- Lessons and cultural videos for Turkmen learners.
Subtitles and exports
Export SRT or VTT once the draft is corrected. The files are UTF-8, so ň, ý and ž show correctly in YouTube Studio and current editors. There is no conversion to Cyrillic, which older Turkmen texts used. DOCX, PDF and TXT give a written version with or without timestamps, and CSV lists each line with its start time. Speaker labels are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
English and the audio page
The transcript stays in Turkmen; there is no built-in translation. To read it in English, open the Google Translate link on the transcript, or use the AI prompt export to hand the text to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. Translation from Turkmen is also weaker than from Turkish or Russian, so check important lines with a speaker. Songs with dutar music in the background are especially hard, so start with spoken videos. For audio-only recordings, see the Turkmen audio to text page.