Thai Transcription: Thai Speech to Text

Written Thai runs words together and uses a space where English would put a comma or a full stop. Upload a recording and get a Thai transcript in Thai script, with speakers labelled and every line timestamped.

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Every word, in Thai

interview.mp324:10 · 2 speakersTH
นก

เราปรับปรุงสตูดิโอใหม่ในฤดูหนาว

อาทิตย์

ตั้งแต่นั้นมาทุกตอนก็ฟังดูอบอุ่นขึ้น

นก

ผู้ฟังได้ยินความต่างทันที

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What Makes Thai Hard to Transcribe

No spaces between words
Five tones, one syllable
Particles, loanwords and dates

Thai is written without spaces between words. A space marks the end of a phrase or a sentence instead, so where the spaces go changes how a transcript reads. For subtitles this matters even more: a line has to break between words, and finding those boundaries takes knowledge of the language, not just counting characters.

No spaces between words

Thai has five tones, and the tone changes the word: ไม้ (wood), ไหม (silk, or the question particle) and ใหม่ (new) differ mainly in tone and vowel length. In fast or casual speech tones blur, so the right word comes from the sentence around it. Names and specialist terms are where a careful read pays off.

Five tones, one syllable

Spoken Thai ends many sentences with polite particles, ครับ for male speakers and ค่ะ or คะ for female ones. English loanwords are everywhere, written in Thai script or left in Latin letters. Years are usually counted in the Buddhist Era, 543 years ahead of the Western calendar, which matters as soon as a transcript is translated.

Particles, loanwords and dates

What a Clean Thai Transcript Looks Like

Three lines from a business interview, and what each one shows.

  1. Speaker 1

    สวัสดีครับ วันนี้เราจะมาคุยเรื่องการตลาดออนไลน์กัน

    The space after the greeting ends a phrase, not a word. The polite particle is kept, and it also tells you the speaker is male.

  2. Speaker 2

    ปีนี้ยอดขายของเราเพิ่มขึ้นประมาณ 15 เปอร์เซ็นต์ค่ะ

    The word for per cent is an English loanword written in Thai script. Numbers can appear as Arabic digits or Thai numerals, so pick one style for the whole text.

  3. Speaker 1

    โครงการนี้เริ่มตั้งแต่ปี 2565 ครับ

    2565 is a Buddhist Era year, which is 2022 in the Western calendar. Check dates like this before the transcript is translated or quoted abroad.

How to Transcribe Thai Audio

From a Thai recording to editable text in three steps.

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Why Transcribe Thai with BlaBlaScribe

Thai speech recognition for interviews, lessons and videos.

Thai script, not transliteration

The transcript is written in Thai script, ready to edit, quote or turn into subtitles.

Who said what

Speakers are labelled automatically, so an interview reads as a dialogue, not one long line of text.

Thai subtitles from the same file

Turn the transcript into timed subtitles, then adjust line breaks in the editor where a word would be split.

From Thai to 50+ languages

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Frequently Asked Questions

About transcribing Thai.

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Upload a Thai 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.
The text is written the way Thai is normally written: words run together, and spaces appear between phrases and sentences. Spacing is not always placed the way a Thai editor would place it, so give long passages a quick read and adjust spaces in the editor where needed.
Yes. The transcript follows the speech, so particles stay where the speaker used them. They carry tone and politeness, and in subtitles they also hint at who is speaking. Remove them in the editor only if your format calls for it.
Numbers may appear as Arabic digits, Thai numerals or words, depending on how they were said. Years are often given in the Buddhist Era (พ.ศ.), so subtract 543 to get the Western year before you translate or publish a date.
English loanwords can come out in Thai script or in Latin letters. Both are normal in written Thai, so decide which one your text should use and make the transcript consistent in the editor.
Up to 99.8% on clear audio. 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 Thai recordings are transcribed in full, long ones show the first 10 minutes.