Afrikaans audio to text: transcribe Afrikaans audio and video
Upload Afrikaans (Afrikaans) audio or video, or paste a link. The language is already set to Afrikaans. You get a transcript with speaker labels and timestamps that you can edit, export and translate.
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Which kinds of Afrikaans it covers
- South African Afrikaans
- Namibian Afrikaans
- Kaaps (Cape Afrikaans)
One Afrikaans setting covers these speakers. Afrikaans is a separate option from Dutch in the language list, so pick Afrikaans even though the two look alike on paper.
How Afrikaans transcripts are written
Transcripts use standard Afrikaans spelling, including ê, ë, ô and the short form 'n for the article.
In our test run on read news sentences, the transcript kept Afrikaans words such as gesê and woordvoerder, and wrote foreign names like Medicines Sans Frontier as they sound. Check the spelling of organisations and people before you publish.
What people transcribe in Afrikaans
Church services and sermons
Sunday services and Bible studies in Afrikaans become text you can share with members who could not attend.
Radio and podcasts
Afrikaans radio talk and podcasts come back with timestamps, so you can find a quote and cut a clip.
Farm, business and council meetings
Meetings held in Afrikaans become minutes you can edit, then translate to English for partners.
Tip for Afrikaans recordings
South African speakers often switch between Afrikaans and English in one sentence. Choose Afrikaans for mostly Afrikaans speech and Auto-detect when both languages carry long stretches.
Translate a Afrikaans transcript
Open a finished transcript in your dashboard, choose Translate and pick a target language from a list of 99+. You get the translated lines with their timestamps, and you can copy them or download TXT or SRT.
Translation needs an account. It is included on paid plans and the Weekly Pass, and with the first file on a free account.
Common choices from Afrikaans:
- Afrikaans English
- Afrikaans Dutch
- Afrikaans German
- Afrikaans Portuguese
- Afrikaans French
- Afrikaans Spanish
Want it in one step? Translate Audio and Translate Video transcribe and translate together, and Translate Subtitles works on an SRT or VTT file.
FAQ
Will an Afrikaans recording be transcribed as Dutch?
Not when you choose Afrikaans. The page sets Afrikaans for you, and the transcript follows Afrikaans spelling, not Dutch.
Can I translate an Afrikaans transcript to English?
Yes. Open the finished transcript in your dashboard and choose Translate. English, Dutch and German are common choices.
Is there a sample transcript on this page?
Not yet. We only publish samples made from audio we can confirm is in the public domain. We tested this language with our own test recordings, on both the free preview and a signed-in account, before adding the page.
Is the Afrikaans transcription free?
Yes. Afrikaans files run on our premium engine with speaker labels, up to 2 hours a month on a free account. You can transcribe up to 30 Afrikaans files a day, up to 30 minutes each, for free, and your first file can run up to an hour. Reading, copying, the full editor and TXT downloads stay free. Action items, email drafts, AI summaries and DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT and JSON downloads come with your first file, the Weekly Pass ($9.99 for 20 hours over 7 days) and paid plans. Full-length files from $8.33/mo billed yearly.
What Afrikaans file formats are supported?
All common audio and video: MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, AAC, OGG, MP4, MOV, WebM, AVI, MKV. Upload directly or paste a URL (YouTube, Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.).