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Transcribe Mandarin Chinese audio to text

OneDollarTranscript transcribes Mandarin Chinese 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 Mandarin Chinese 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 中文 No signup

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

About Mandarin Chinese recordings

Mandarin is written in Chinese characters, with no spaces between words. Chinese has two character sets, Simplified (mainland China, Singapore) and Traditional (Taiwan, Hong Kong); if the transcript uses the set you do not need, a free converter such as OpenCC switches it in seconds. Cantonese has its own page.

Mandarin Chinese transcription at a glance

Native name
中文
Writing system
Chinese characters
Writing direction
Left to right
Spoken in
China and Taiwan, Singapore, and Chinese communities in Malaysia and worldwide
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
zh

How to transcribe a Mandarin Chinese recording

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

Translate Mandarin Chinese audio into English or another language

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

Will the transcript be Simplified or Traditional Chinese?

Chinese has two character sets. If the transcript uses the set you do not need, a free converter such as OpenCC switches Simplified and Traditional characters in seconds. Pinyin is not produced.

How accurate is Mandarin Chinese transcription?

A clear Mandarin Chinese 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 Mandarin Chinese audio to English?

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

What if the recording mixes Mandarin Chinese 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 Mandarin Chinese.

Will the Mandarin Chinese transcript be in Chinese characters?

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

Last updated October 27, 2026

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