English to Korean audio translator

A Korean transcript in Hangul, paragraph by paragraph, each with the time it was spoken. Save it as text or as a Word file headed with the recording’s name, its length and “Translated: English → Korean”; the English transcript saves separately under Original.

Polite. “Thank you all for coming today” became the formal “오늘 와주신 모든 분들께 감사드립니다.”, and “Can you send me the report…?” the courteous “보내주실 수 있나요?”. Our short test mixed 합니다 and 해요 endings, so for a report, choose one.

In a longer test of 50 news sentences, every one ended in the formal 합니다 style, which suits a report. Spoken asides, like “you know” (“아시다시피”), came back in the softer 해요 style that sounds like talk.

With honorific grammar instead of pronouns. “Our doctor said she would call back tomorrow” became “의사 선생님께서 내일 다시 전화 주시겠다고 하셨어요.”: 께서 and the verb ending honour the doctor, and nothing says whether the doctor is a man or a woman.

Often in Latin letters, with Korean particles joined on: “Dr. Patel과 Maria Lopez가”. In a longer test, famous names were written in Hangul instead, such as 라오닉 for Raonic. Search the transcript both ways, and remember a name misheard in English stays misheard.

NoteOwl understands Korean and English on your Mac: meetings in either get unlimited transcription, every speaker is labelled, and you can search the whole history later. For English words from an English recording, audio to text is enough.