Transcription · German

German transcription you can hear, read and cite

Upload audio or video and get a German transcript synced to the sound — clear recordings usually need only a lighter check, and the editor plays the audio under every word you check.

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How German behaves in automatic transcription

Automatic transcription is honest work with honest limits: quality depends on the recording, and in German, clear recordings usually need only a lighter check. That is why the editor is part of the product, not an add-on — checking is part of the job, and it is built to be quick.

German's long compounds are transcribed as the single words they are, which makes the transcript pleasantly searchable — one term, one hit, even when it is Donaudampfschifffahrt-length.

What every transcript includes

Speakers told apart

Each voice is labelled within the recording, so who-said-what survives into the text.

Timestamps to the second

Every word knows its moment, so quotes carry a citable time.

An editor that plays the audio

The audio plays from the word you're checking — fixing is listening, not scrubbing.

Translation included

Translate transcripts at no extra charge, where the language pair is supported.

Search that finds meaning

Lost the exact words? Search finds the passage by meaning, within your own workspace.

Private by architecture

Akoé runs only on EU-owned infrastructure — not the EU regions of overseas clouds. Your audio and transcript live together and are deleted together, on a schedule you choose; deleted means gone, backups included.

Your recordings are never used to train models, and transcript content never appears in our logs. The full picture, in plain language, is in our privacy notice.

Pay per file, not per month

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Questions

About German transcription

How accurate is German transcription?

It depends on the recording more than anything: with German, clear recordings usually need only a lighter check. Numbers beat adjectives — your first 5 minutes are free, so test a real file and see for yourself.

Does it tell German speakers apart?

Yes — voices are labelled within the recording, so who-said-what survives into the text. Labels are per-recording only; we never build voice profiles across recordings.

Can I translate the German transcript?

Translation is included at no extra charge where the language pair is supported — see the languages section on the home page for the current list.

Is my German audio safe here?

It stays on EU-owned infrastructure, is never used for training, and is deleted together with its transcript on the schedule you choose. The full commitments are at akoe.ai/privacy.

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