Convert Russian audio to text

Yes: proper Russian in Cyrillic script, not transliteration, and it pastes cleanly into Word and websites. TXT, DOCX, SRT and VTT exports all carry Cyrillic perfectly. (The built-in PDF export uses a Latin font; export DOCX and print from Word for Russian PDFs.) One quirk to expect: like most printed Russian, transcripts generally write е where ё is spoken.

Pick the language actually being spoken: Russian and Ukrainian are different languages, and running one through the other's model gives poor results. Mixed speech (surzhyk, or sentence-level switching between Russian and English) is genuinely hard for every AI model today; choose the dominant language for best results.

Yes. Save or export the voice note as an audio file (OGG/Opus works fine) and upload it. Short notes transcribe in seconds, and a batch of them lands in the dashboard as each one finishes.

On clear audio, accuracy is close to English-level, good enough that a few minutes of inline correction gets you to publication quality. Fast colloquial speech, heavy slang and a far-away microphone lower it, exactly as they do in every language.

Yes, with expectations set. Tape hiss, distant microphones and era-specific vocabulary make archival audio harder than a modern phone recording, so digitize at decent quality (a proper transfer, not a phone held to a cassette player's speaker) and upload the cleanest copy you have. Expect a heavier editing pass; the click-to-replay editor exists for exactly that work, and patronymics and place names are the words to check first. Once corrected, the transcript becomes searchable text a whole family can quote from, which is usually the point of digitizing the tapes at all.