Lingala audio to text: transcribe Lingala audio and video
Upload Lingala (Lingála) audio or video, or paste a link. The language is already set to Lingala. You get a transcript with speaker labels and timestamps that you can edit, export and translate.
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Which kinds of Lingala it covers
- Kinshasa Lingala
- Lingala of Brazzaville
- Lingala in music and church
One Lingala setting covers these speakers.
How Lingala transcripts are written
Transcripts use Lingala in Latin letters, mostly without tone marks.
In our test on read sentences, the transcript came back in Lingala with French words left in French, as people say them in Kinshasa. Tone marks were not written, and word breaks were the main thing to fix.
What people transcribe in Lingala
Church and sermons
Sermons and prayer meetings in Lingala become text you can share.
Radio and interviews
Radio programs and interviews come back with timestamps.
NGO and field work
Field interviews can be translated to French or English for reports.
Tip for Lingala recordings
Lingala speakers mix in a lot of French. Keep the Lingala setting for mostly Lingala speech; French words stay in French in the transcript.
Translate a Lingala 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 Lingala:
- Lingala French
- Lingala English
- Lingala Swahili
- Lingala Portuguese
- Lingala Spanish
- Lingala Arabic
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
Are tone marks written?
Mostly not. In our test the transcript used plain Latin letters, which is how Lingala is usually typed.
What happens to French words?
In our test, French words stayed in French spelling inside the Lingala transcript.
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 Lingala transcription free?
Yes. Lingala 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 Lingala 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 Lingala 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.).