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Transcribe Arabic audio to text

OneDollarTranscript transcribes Arabic audio and video to text: upload a recording or paste a link, see its exact length and price, pay once ($1 up to 60 minutes, $3 up to 10 hours) and download the complete Arabic transcript as TXT and SRT. You can add a translation into English or any other language at no extra cost. No account, no subscription.

$1 up to 60 minutes $3 up to 10 hours TXT + SRT العربية No signup

YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X (Twitter), Vimeo, SoundCloud, Dailymotion, Loom, or a direct link to an audio/video file.

About Arabic recordings

Modern Standard Arabic and the spoken dialects, such as Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine and Maghrebi Arabic, are all written in Arabic script. Short vowel marks (tashkeel) are usually left out, as in normal writing. Maghrebi recordings often switch into French; on auto-detect French sentences stay in French.

Arabic transcription at a glance

Native name
العربية
Writing system
Arabic
Writing direction
Right to left
Spoken in
The Middle East and North Africa, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Morocco, Algeria, Sudan, Syria, Jordan, the UAE and Lebanon
Price
$1 up to 60 minutes, $3 up to 10 hours, per file
You get
Full transcript as TXT, TXT with timestamps and SRT subtitles
Translation
Into any of 141 other languages, included in the price
Language code
ar

Checking a Arabic transcript

How to transcribe a Arabic recording

  1. Upload the file (up to 5 GB) or paste a link from YouTube, TikTok, Facebook or another platform.
  2. Keep Arabic as the spoken language (or auto-detect), add a translation if you want one, and pay once.
  3. Download the Arabic transcript as plain text, text with timestamps and SRT subtitles.

Written in Arabic, not in Latin letters

Your transcript comes back in Arabic, the script Arabic is normally written in, not as a romanised approximation. The SRT file is plain UTF-8 text, so the characters display correctly in YouTube Studio, VLC, Premiere Pro and other modern players and editors.

Right-to-left text in TXT and SRT

Arabic is written from right to left. The transcript keeps the original characters and direction, and the subtitle file can be loaded into players and editors that support right-to-left text. If a line shows punctuation on the wrong side, the player is the problem, not the file: try VLC or YouTube Studio.

Translate Arabic audio into English or another language

Choose a translation language before paying and you get two versions: the original Arabic transcript and a line-by-line translation, both as TXT and as SRT with the same timings. That makes it easy to check the translation against the original, or to publish subtitles in both languages.

Questions

Can it transcribe Egyptian, Gulf or Levantine Arabic?

Yes. Dialect speech is written in Arabic script the way it sounds, so it can look different from formal Modern Standard Arabic. News, sermons and formal speeches in MSA come out closest to written Arabic.

Will the transcript be in Arabic letters or in Arabizi?

In Arabic letters. Arabizi, the chat style that writes Arabic with Latin letters and numbers such as 3 and 7, is not produced. Choose English as the translation language if you need a version in Latin letters.

How accurate is Arabic transcription?

A clear Arabic recording with one speaker at a time comes out close to word-perfect. Accuracy drops with background music or noise, people talking over each other, strong regional accents and poor phone recordings: the same things that make a recording hard for a person to follow.

Can I translate Arabic audio to English?

Yes. Pick English (or any of 141 other languages) as the translation language before paying. You get the original Arabic transcript and the translation, both as TXT and SRT.

What if the recording mixes Arabic and English?

Leave the spoken language on auto-detect. Each part is written in the language it is spoken in, so English sentences stay in English instead of being forced into Arabic.

Will the Arabic transcript be in Arabic?

Yes. The text is written in Arabic, the way Arabic is normally written, not transliterated into Latin letters.

Does the Arabic SRT work in video editors?

Yes. The SRT file is standard UTF-8 with the original right-to-left text. YouTube Studio, VLC and most editors display it correctly; if punctuation looks out of place, check that your editor supports right-to-left text.

Last updated October 27, 2026

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