A six-person panel discussion, and it kept every voice straight. I stopped double-checking after the third transcript.
Chinese Transcription: Mandarin Audio and Video to Text
In Mandarin, one syllable can stand for dozens of characters, and the tone is often the only clue in the sound. Upload a recording and get a Chinese transcript written from context, with speakers labelled and every line timestamped.
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Every word, in Chinese
interview.mp3ZH
李娜
我们冬天重新装修了录音室。
王磊
从那以后，每一期听起来都更温暖。
李娜
听众马上就能听出来。
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What Makes Chinese Hard to Transcribe
Mandarin has only around four hundred distinct syllables before tones, and each one maps to many characters. Shì can be 是, 事, 市 or 试; tā can be 他, 她 or 它, and those three sound exactly the same. Fast speech also flattens tones. The right character comes from the words around it, which is why names and rare terms deserve a second look.
Mainland China and Singapore write Simplified characters; Taiwan and Hong Kong use Traditional ones. Check which script your transcript is in, and if you need the other one, convert it with a separate tool. Chinese also has no spaces between words, so subtitle lines have to break between whole words and phrases rather than at any character.
Mandarin is the standard spoken language, and it is what most Chinese recordings use. Cantonese is a separate spoken language with its own sounds and words: it is recognised, but check a Cantonese transcript more carefully. In business and tech talk, speakers also drop English straight into a Chinese sentence: deadline, KPI, App.
What a Clean Chinese Transcript Looks Like
Three lines from a team meeting, and what each one shows.
- Speaker 1
她说下周一再把方案发给我们。
He, she and it are all pronounced tā. Only the context tells you whether the speaker meant a man, a woman or a thing, so check pronouns when the subject is not obvious.
- Speaker 2
这个 deadline 我们可能得往后推一周。
The English word stays in Latin letters inside the Chinese sentence, as it was said. Decide once whether your transcript keeps such terms or translates them.
- Speaker 1
去年营收大约三点五亿元，用户超过两千万。
Chinese counts large numbers in units of ten thousand and a hundred million. The figure here is 350 million, so check large numbers carefully before they go into a report or an English translation.
How to Transcribe Chinese Audio
From a Mandarin recording to editable text in three steps.
Transcribe Chinese Audio30 free minutes · No credit card
Drop in MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV or any common format, or paste a YouTube or Vimeo link.
Auto-detection listens to several stretches of speech across the file. If the speakers mix in a lot of English or the video opens with music, select Chinese yourself.
Read through names, numbers and pronouns, fix anything in the editor, then export SRT, VTT, ASS, TXT, DOCX, PDF, CSV, XLSX or JSON.
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Upload a Chinese audio or video file up to 8 GB, or paste a link from YouTube or another site. BlaBlaScribe’s AI turns the speech into text with speaker labels and timestamps; on clear recordings, accuracy reaches up to 99.8%. Check the transcript against the audio in the editor, then export TXT, DOCX, PDF, CSV, XLSX, JSON, SRT, VTT or ASS. The first 30 minutes are free, no credit card required.
Check the result: the script follows the model, and it is not something you can switch in the settings. If you need the other script, for example Traditional characters for a Taiwanese audience, convert the finished text with a separate converter and review terms that differ between regions.
Cantonese is recognised, but it is a different spoken language from Mandarin, and written Cantonese has its own characters and conventions. Expect more edits than with Mandarin, and check a Cantonese transcript more carefully before you publish it.
Characters are chosen from the meaning of the whole sentence, not from the syllable alone, so common words usually come out right. Personal names, brand names and technical terms are where mistakes happen, because many characters share one sound.
They are written in Latin letters inside the Chinese text, as they were spoken. If the English is heavy, for example a talk that switches between the two languages, pick Chinese manually and check the switches in the editor.
Up to 99.8% on clear audio, with Chinese punctuation. Background noise, overlapping speakers, strong regional accents and phone-quality recordings lower it, and the editor shows text and audio side by side, so the remaining fixes are quick.
All common audio and video formats — MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV, MKV and more — up to 8 GB per file, or a YouTube or Vimeo link. Export to SRT, VTT, ASS, TXT, DOCX, PDF, CSV, XLSX or JSON.
Yes. You get 30 free minutes once, with no credit card: short Chinese recordings are transcribed in full, long ones show the first 10 minutes.