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Transcribe Somali audio to text

OneDollarTranscript transcribes Somali 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 Somali 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 Soomaali No signup

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

About Somali recordings

Somali is written in the Latin alphabet, with c and x for its throat sounds and doubled vowels for long ones (aa, oo). It works for religious lectures, recited poetry and news, and you can add an English translation as a second SRT.

Somali transcription at a glance

Native name
Soomaali
Writing system
Latin
Writing direction
Left to right
Spoken in
Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti, eastern Ethiopia and north-eastern Kenya, and by communities in Europe and North America
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
so

How to transcribe a Somali recording

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

An honest note on accuracy

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

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

How are Somali c and x written?

Somali is written in the official Latin alphabet, where c and x stand for throat sounds and long vowels are doubled (aa, ee, ii, oo, uu).

How accurate is Somali transcription?

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

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

What if the recording mixes Somali 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 Somali.

Is Somali supported as well as English?

It is supported, but less recorded Somali 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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