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Formats and languages

Audiotext extracts the audio of video files with FFmpeg, so it transcribes both.

Audio: .aac, .flac, .mp3, .mpeg, .oga, .ogg, .opus, .wav, .wma

Video: .3g2, .3gp, .3gp2, .3gpp, .3gpp2, .asf, .avi, .f4a, .f4b, .f4v, .flv, .m4a, .m4b, .m4r, .m4v, .mkv, .mov, .mp4, .ogv, .ogx, .webm, .wmv

Format Export Folder (WhisperX) Folder (Whisper API) Command line
Plain text (.txt) ✓ ✓ text ✓
Markdown (.md) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓
Word document (.docx) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓
Subtitles (.srt) ✓ ✓ srt ✓
Web subtitles (.vtt) ✓ ✓ vtt ✓
Styled subtitles (.ass) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✓
Table (.tsv) ✓ ✓ ✗ ✓
JSON (.json) ✓ ✓ json, verbose_json ✓
Audacity labels (.aud) ✗ ✓ ✗ WhisperX
Video with subtitles (.mp4) ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗

The summary is exported by itself to .txt, .md and .docx. See Export, the Output card and the command line.

WhisperX and the Whisper API detect the language automatically, and can transcribe these 100 languages (the Google API requires choosing it):

Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese, Chinese (Cantonese), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish and Yoruba.

The quality depends on the language: it’s best for widely spoken languages, such as English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian or Japanese.

The interface of Audiotext, and this documentation, are available in:

Language Language
Català Catalan Polski Polish
Čeština Czech Português Portuguese
Deutsch German Română Romanian
English English Русский Russian
Español Spanish Svenska Swedish
Français French Türkçe Turkish
Galego Galician Українська Ukrainian
हिन्दी Hindi Tiếng Việt Vietnamese
Bahasa Indonesia Indonesian 简体中文 Simplified Chinese
Italiano Italian 日本語 Japanese
Nederlands Dutch 한국어 Korean

Change it in Preferences → General → Interface language. To improve a translation or add a language, see Contributing.