Convert Italian audio to text
Italian speech (interviews, meetings, lectures, family recordings) transcribed to clean, editable text, with English translation on Pro.
Free: 60 min per 30 days, files up to 30 min / 50 MB · Paid plans: 10 to 100 hrs, files up to 2 GB. Big video? Upload just its audio track: same transcript, much faster upload.
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Last updated 21 July 2026
Italian transcribes well: it's a phonetically regular language with a large training footprint, so clear Italian speech lands in the same accuracy range as English or Spanish. Accented vowels (è, à, ù, ò) and apostrophized elisions (l'ora, un'idea) come through as written Italian, not stripped-down approximations.
Set the spoken language to Italian before uploading; auto-detect is good, but explicit selection wins on casual or quiet recordings. The transcript arrives in a synced editor: click any sentence to hear that exact moment, correct a word inline, and export TXT free or DOCX/PDF/SRT/VTT on paid plans.
For English speakers working with Italian material (oral-history interviews with relatives, research recordings, business calls), Pro adds stored translation: one upload returns the Italian transcript and an English version side by side, each checkable against the other, following the workflow in how to translate audio to text.
Family and heritage recordings are a large share of Italian uploads from North America: oral-history interviews with grandparents, digitized tapes, wedding speeches. Two things help there. First, standard Italian with a regional accent transcribes fine, but a nonna who slides into Sicilian or Neapolitan is speaking a different language, and those passages will come back rough. Second, older digitized audio carries hiss and distance, so upload the cleanest transfer you have and plan an editing pass with the click-to-replay editor; names of towns and relatives are the words to check first.
How it works
- 1Set 'Spoken language' to Italian under the upload box.
- 2Upload the recording: MP3, M4A voice notes, calls or video.
- 3Edit inline, export, or read the English translation (Pro).
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Does it handle regional Italian accents?
Regional accents of standard Italian (Milanese, Roman, Tuscan and so on) transcribe well. Actual regional languages like Sicilian, Neapolitan or Venetian are a different matter: they aren't Italian, and no mainstream model transcribes them reliably. Accented standard Italian, yes; dialect speech, treat as unsupported.
Can I get English text from an Italian recording?
On Pro, yes: the Italian speech is transcribed first, then that text is translated to English, and both stay stored together. Free route: export the Italian text and run it through any free translator.
Is Italian transcription free to try?
Yes. The free hour each month is about one long family interview or a batch of voice notes, in files of up to 30 minutes, with TXT export and no card. Try it on your own recording before deciding anything.
What about Italian mixed with English?
English words and phrases inside Italian speech usually survive intact, as is common in business audio. Italian-American family conversations that alternate whole sentences between the two languages are the harder case for any model; transcribe under whichever language carries most of the recording.
Does Swiss Italian work?
Yes. Italian is an official language of Switzerland, and standard Italian spoken with a Ticinese accent transcribes under the same Italian setting. The occasional French or German loanword from Swiss workplace speech usually survives intact.
Can I turn an Italian interview into subtitles?
Yes. Paid plans export SRT and VTT built from the transcript's timestamps, and on Pro the stored English translation supplies the text for an English caption track. For research and journalism material, the interview transcription workflow applies to Italian unchanged.
An honest note: Regional languages (Sicilian, Neapolitan, Venetian, Sardinian) are not Italian and don't transcribe reliably; a recording of a grandparent speaking dialect will come back rough. Standard Italian with a regional accent is fine; dialect itself is not.
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