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Transcribe Cantonese audio to text

OneDollarTranscript transcribes Cantonese 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 Cantonese 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 粵語 No signup

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

About Cantonese recordings

Cantonese is written in Chinese characters. Spoken Cantonese differs from written standard Chinese, so a transcript can contain Cantonese-specific characters (such as 嘅, 咗, 喺) or be closer to standard written Chinese depending on the speech. Mandarin has its own page.

Cantonese transcription at a glance

Native name
粵語
Writing system
Chinese characters
Writing direction
Left to right
Spoken in
Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong province in China, and by Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, North America, the United Kingdom and Australia
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
yue

How to transcribe a Cantonese recording

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

Written in Chinese characters, not in Latin letters

Your transcript comes back in Chinese characters, the script Cantonese 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.

An honest note on accuracy

Automatic speech recognition has seen far less recorded Cantonese than English or Spanish, so expect more mistakes in names, place names and specialist terms, especially in noisy recordings. Clear speech close to the microphone gives the best result. If a paid file cannot be transcribed at all, you are refunded automatically.

Translate Cantonese audio into English or another language

Choose a translation language before paying and you get two versions: the original Cantonese 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

Is Cantonese transcribed as Cantonese or as Mandarin?

Choose Cantonese as the spoken language. Spoken Cantonese is written in Chinese characters and can include Cantonese-specific characters; it is not translated into Mandarin.

How accurate is Cantonese transcription?

Usable for clear speech, with more corrections than in English or Spanish. Speech models have heard far less Cantonese, so names, place names, numbers and specialist terms are where to look first. Background music, overlapping voices and phone-line audio make it harder still.

Can I translate Cantonese audio to English?

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

What if the recording mixes Cantonese 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 Cantonese.

Will the Cantonese transcript be in Chinese characters?

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

Is Cantonese supported as well as English?

It is supported, but less recorded Cantonese exists for training speech models, so the transcript usually needs more checking than an English one. The price is the same, and a file that fails entirely is refunded automatically.

Last updated October 27, 2026

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