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Transcribe German audio to text

OneDollarTranscript transcribes German 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 German transcript as TXT and SRT. You can add a translation into English or any other language at no extra cost. No account, no subscription.

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

About German recordings

Standard German, Austrian and Swiss speakers are written in standard German with umlauts and ß. Strong dialects such as Swiss German or Bavarian are written in standard German spelling, which means some dialect words can be normalised or misheard.

German transcription at a glance

Native name
Deutsch
Writing system
Latin
Writing direction
Left to right
Spoken in
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and South Tyrol in Italy
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
de

Checking a German transcript

How to transcribe a German recording

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

Translate German audio into English or another language

Choose a translation language before paying and you get two versions: the original German 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 Swiss German?

Swiss German (Schweizerdeutsch) is transcribed into standard German spelling, not written dialect, so some dialect words are normalised or misheard. Standard German spoken by Swiss and Austrian speakers works well.

Is Low German (Plattdeutsch) supported?

It has no page of its own. You can upload a Low German recording, but we cannot promise a usable transcript, and words may be written in standard German form. Luxembourgish, Frisian and Yiddish have their own pages.

How accurate is German transcription?

A clear German 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 German audio to English?

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

What if the recording mixes German 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 German.

Last updated October 27, 2026

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