Hello all,

I have some audio files with speech on it that I would like to transcribe into a document.
I have tried several options, one of which was Gmail and Google Docs: you can print what you speech, but....only in English.
Problem: my language is Dutch so this won't work.

I tried Google translate but there is a limit and also copy and paste each text fragment is somewhat cumbersome.

So now I am looking for tips how I can transcribe Dutch audio files into a document.
Does anybody know about a website or program where you can upload audio files? If possible for free.
I estimate that the total of pages my audio files are is about 20-30.

Kind regards,
Paul

 

Dutch Transcription

Dutch audio and video to text.
Better transcripts for better communication.

www.happyscribe.com/de/transkription-niederlaendisch

 

If you don't mind messing around with the command line: "whisper" (OpenAI) is really quite excellent - for English at least; language models for Dutch are also available.

To run this, you need to pick an implementation of whisper (whisper, whisper.cpp, faster-whisper, insanely-fast-whisper, ..) and check installation instructions for that particular implementation.

I use faster-whisper-xxl for Windows which handles the tedious stuff by itself (download the correct language models, extract audio from video, convert audio to appropriate formats, ...).

You might want to try cloud hosted instances of whisper first, but as always with free AI on the web, coin toss between hit or miss:

https://whisperui.com/
https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/whisper-web
https://whisperapi.com/speech-to-text-free-tool
https://freesubtitles.ai/

(I just Googled "online ai whisper")

 

(free) Whisper desktop app
IF you have powerful enough computer of course