Chinese audio to text

Simplified. Run through a traditional-to-simplified converter, the Mandarin transcripts we checked did not change by a single character. If you need traditional characters for Taiwan or Hong Kong, put the text through a simplified-to-traditional converter afterwards.

Because most pieces come back with no punctuation at all, just characters. Where punctuation does appear, a plain comma (,) can sit beside a full-width 。 or 、. Plan to add ，and 。 yourself, which is quick with the audio and its paragraph times beside you.

Quotation marks such as “ ” and brackets are left out too, and the middle dot in foreign names goes: 詹姆斯·佩吉特 came back as 詹姆斯佩吉特.

Mandarin, the spoken standard of mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore, recorded clearly by one person at a time. English terms dropped into Mandarin, such as IT or pH, stay in Latin letters inside the Chinese text.

For a recording that moves between whole stretches of Mandarin and English, use the main converter: it detects the language of each piece instead of treating all of it as Chinese.

Yes. NoteOwl understands Chinese on your Mac, Mandarin included. It transcribes Chinese recordings and meetings there with unlimited transcription, labels every speaker and keeps it all searchable, without uploading anything. Its free dictation types characters into any app.