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Transcribe Lingala audio to text

OneDollarTranscript transcribes Lingala 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 Lingala 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 Lingála No signup

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About Lingala recordings

Lingala is written in the Latin alphabet, sometimes with ɛ and ɔ. Kinshasa speech mixes heavily with French; on auto-detect French words and phrases stay in French. Sermons, interviews and talk shows work best; songs over loud music are not transcribed reliably.

Lingala transcription at a glance

Native name
Lingála
Writing system
Latin
Writing direction
Left to right
Spoken in
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (especially Kinshasa), the Republic of the Congo and parts of Angola and the Central African Republic
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
ln

How to transcribe a Lingala recording

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

An honest note on accuracy

Automatic speech recognition has seen far less recorded Lingala 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 Lingala audio into English or another language

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

Does it handle Lingala mixed with French?

Yes. Kinshasa Lingala mixes in a lot of French; on auto-detect French words and sentences are kept in French.

How accurate is Lingala transcription?

Usable for clear speech, with more corrections than in English or Spanish. Speech models have heard far less Lingala, 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 Lingala audio to English?

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

What if the recording mixes Lingala and French?

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

Is Lingala supported as well as English?

It is supported, but less recorded Lingala 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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