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Italian audio to text
Turn Italian audio to text with a converter that is already set to Italian. Drop in a lesson, an interview or a vocale and read it back with its accents, apostrophes and a time beside every paragraph.
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- Set to Italian
- Nothing is stored
Drop your Italian recording here, or Choose your Italian recording
MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG or WebM. Up to 30 minutes of each file, 3 free files a day. Spoken language: Italian.
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How it works
How do you transcribe Italian audio?
Open the recording here. The page splits it at natural pauses into short pieces, has each one written out in Italian, and fills in the transcript as the pieces come back. When it finishes, copy the text or save a file.
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Pick the file
A WhatsApp vocale, a lezione recorded on your phone, an M4A from a recorder app or the sound of an MP4 video.
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Read it in Italian
Paragraphs appear as they are written, each with its start time. A file longer than 30 minutes is transcribed up to that point.
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Keep a copy
Copy everything, or download plain text, a Word document, or SRT and VTT subtitles for a video.
Why fix the language to Italian?
So that no piece is ever guessed. A two-word reply, a quiet aside or a strong regional accent is easy to mislabel when software has to work out the language first. Here every piece is decoded as Italian, from the opening line to the last.
If a recording switches between Italian and English for whole stretches, the main audio to text converter suits it better: it works out the language of each piece on its own.
What does an Italian transcript look like?
Like written Italian. In our test of read-aloud Italian, the transcript kept grave and acute accents (è, più, ciò, né), elided articles such as l'apprendimento and un'ampia, and in most pieces a capital letter at the start of each sentence.
A few pieces came back in lower case with no punctuation at all, so give long paragraphs a quick read for missing full stops.
- A clock time
- What the transcript showsDigits with a dot: “alle 23.35”, “tra le 6.30 e le 7.30”
- A count
- What the transcript showsUsually digits: “15 metri”, “10 agenti”, “5 volte”
- A decade
- What the transcript showsIn words: “negli anni venti”
- A title or an aside
- What the transcript showsNo quotation marks; brackets turn into commas
- A foreign name
- What the transcript showsSpelled by ear: “Cholanqui” for Solanki
| What was said | What the transcript shows |
|---|---|
| A clock time | Digits with a dot: “alle 23.35”, “tra le 6.30 e le 7.30” |
| A count | Usually digits: “15 metri”, “10 agenti”, “5 volte” |
| A decade | In words: “negli anni venti” |
| A title or an aside | No quotation marks; brackets turn into commas |
| A foreign name | Spelled by ear: “Cholanqui” for Solanki |
Does it understand regional accents and dialects?
Regional accents of standard Italian, yes: Milanese, Roman or Sicilian Italian is still Italian. Neapolitan, Sicilian and Venetian spoken as dialects are separate languages with their own words, so try a minute of a dialect recording before relying on it.
Italian is the official language of Italy and San Marino, one of Switzerland’s national languages and the working language of Vatican City. Our test recordings were standard Italian, read aloud by speakers from Italy.
What should you check before using an Italian transcript?
Proper names and English loanwords. Names are written by sound, and borrowed terms are bent into Italian spelling.
Names
Solanki became “Cholanqui” and the party SWAPO became “SUAPO”. Scan the capitals and compare them with the audio.
Borrowed words
“Resort balneari” came back as “Resolv Barneari” and skimo as “schimo”.
Near misses
“Oscenità” turned into “uscinità”, a word that doesn’t exist; a spell-checker flags most of these.
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FAQ
Questions about Italian audio to text
Is the Italian converter free to use?
Yes. You can transcribe 3 Italian files a day, up to 30 minutes each, without an account. Copying the text and every download format are included.
Why are times written as 23.35 instead of 23:35?
That is how the transcript wrote spoken clock times in our Italian test: hours and minutes joined by a dot, one of the two forms Italian uses. If your house style wants a colon, change them with find and replace before you share the text.
Will English words in an Italian recording be spelled correctly?
Not always. The page writes everything as Italian, so an English term is spelled the way an Italian ear hears it: “resort” came back as “Resolv” in our test. Check borrowed words, or use the main converter when long passages are in English.
Is my Italian recording saved anywhere?
No. Short slices of the sound travel over a secure connection to a cloud AI transcription service, which writes them out and discards them. NoteOwl keeps neither the audio nor the text, so save the transcript before you close the page.
Can I make Italian subtitles for a video?
Yes. Drop in the MP4 or MOV, let the converter take the sound out and transcribe it, then download SRT or VTT. Every subtitle line carries its own start and end time, ready for a video editor or YouTube.
How accurate is it on Italian?
Clear speech close to the microphone comes back almost word for word, accents included. Unusual surnames, borrowed English words and anything said over music or chatter are where to look for mistakes.
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