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Tagalog audio to text
Turn Tagalog audio to text with this free converter, set to Tagalog for Filipino recordings: Taglish English words keep their English spelling, and every paragraph gets the time it starts.
- Free
- Set to Tagalog
- Nothing is stored
Drop your Tagalog recording here, or Choose your Tagalog recording
MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG or WebM. Up to 30 minutes of each file, 3 free files a day. Spoken language: Tagalog.
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How it works
How do you transcribe Tagalog audio?
Pick the recording and let the page run. It cuts the audio into short pieces at pauses, writes each as Tagalog and shows the paragraphs with their times as they finish. Copy the text or download it at the end.
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Pick a Tagalog or Filipino recording
A voice message saved from your phone, a vlog, a class or an interview, as audio or video.
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Written as Tagalog
Each piece is transcribed as Tagalog, for up to 30 minutes per file.
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Copy or download
Copy the text, or save it as Word, plain text, or SRT and VTT subtitles.
Does it handle Taglish?
Yes. English said inside Tagalog sentences comes back in English spelling, such as Schengen Visa, Milky Way and Infrared Spectroscopy, and a mixed verb like mag-apply keeps its Tagalog prefix and hyphen. The sentence around them stays Tagalog.
Some Tagalog loanwords lean English too: historya came back as history and galaksi as galaxy. If your style keeps Filipino spellings, those are the words to change. For a recording that switches to English for whole passages, use the main converter, which detects the language of each piece.
How does the transcript spell Filipino?
In modern Filipino spelling, with the 28-letter alphabet’s f and v used freely: ngunit and sapagkat, Afrika, virtual and visa. Reduplicated and prefixed words keep their hyphens, as in libo-libong, katanggap-tanggap, pang-araw-araw and pag-init.
- nguni’t, sapagka’t
- In the transcriptngunit, sapagkat
- birtwal, Aprika
- In the transcriptvirtual, Afrika
- nang kaunti
- In the transcriptng kaunti
- mayroon
- In the transcriptmeron, once
| In the original text | In the transcript |
|---|---|
| nguni’t, sapagka’t | ngunit, sapagkat |
| birtwal, Aprika | virtual, Afrika |
| nang kaunti | ng kaunti |
| mayroon | meron, once |
Why check the numbers in a Tagalog transcript?
Because figures were the weakest part. Years and counts came back wrong a few times (1966 as 1166, 409 as 416), ordinals came back spelled out (ikalabing isa for ika-11), and “anim” once turned into a bare “6.”. Read every number against the recording.
What else should you check?
The small words ng and nang, which the transcript mixed up, and names. Quotation marks and brackets are left out, so a quoted line runs on as normal text. Otherwise clear Tagalog came back close to what was said, with full stops in place.
Is there a Tagalog option on a Mac?
Not for Tagalog, so keep this page for Filipino recordings. NoteOwl on a Mac understands 34 languages, English among them, and gives you unlimited transcription of English recordings and meetings there, with each speaker labelled and nothing uploaded.
FAQ
Filipino audio to text: questions
Is the Tagalog converter free?
Yes. Transcribe 3 recordings a day, up to 30 minutes each, with no sign-up, and every download is included.
Is Filipino the same as Tagalog here?
Filipino, the national language of the Philippines, is based on Tagalog, and this page treats both the same way. A Filipino recording comes back as a Tagalog transcript in modern spelling.
What happens to my Tagalog recording?
The page sends it in short pieces, over a secure connection, to a cloud AI transcription service, which transcribes each one and deletes it. NoteOwl keeps no copy of the sound or of the Tagalog transcript.
Does it keep hyphens in words like pang-araw-araw?
Yes. Reduplicated and prefixed words came back hyphenated as Filipino writes them, from libo-libong and batik-batik to Sumasang-ayon and pag-init.
Can I make subtitles for a Filipino vlog?
Yes. Drop the video in and download SRT or VTT: each caption has a start and end time. Check numbers and names before you upload them.
Will it translate Tagalog into English?
No. It writes what was said, in Tagalog with any English words as spoken. Paste it into a translator for a full English version.
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