Transcribe Japanese audio to text
- Language code
- JA
- Script
- Left-to-right
- Models
- Free Turbo + Studio
How accurate is Japanese transcription
Real word error rate on the FLEURS benchmark, and the model we recommend for it
For Japanese, the free model is solid
Japanese runs well on the free Turbo model (about 7.6% word error rate). Studio is noticeably sharper at 3.3% when audio is noisy or speech is fast
Japanese output, written the right way
Output is in standard Japanese, mixing kanji, hiragana, and katakana. Standard Tokyo Japanese transcribes very well. Casual speech, regional dialects such as Kansai, and frequent loanwords written in katakana are handled, though heavy dialect is harder. Japanese is measured by character error rate rather than word error rate.
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Transcribe Japanese in 3 steps
- 1
Upload your Japanese file
Drop your Japanese audio or video. Japanese is selected automatically.
- 2
Pick your model
Free Turbo handles Japanese well; switch to Studio when you need the sharpest result.
- 3
Get your transcript
Read your Japanese text in seconds, then copy or export to TXT, Word, PDF, or SRT.
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Business
Keep a written record of Japanese meetings and calls.
Need it in English, not just Japanese?
Typist transcribes Japanese speech into Japanese text. To read it in English, translate the Japanese transcript once it is ready
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