Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Standard German from Germany, Austria and Switzerland goes through the same model with no setting to choose. Nouns are capitalised, ä ö ü and ß are written correctly, and long compounds come through as one word.
Swiss German dialect (Schwiizerdütsch) is harder: it comes out written towards Standard German, so review those recordings against the audio.
What we measured on German recordings
From 29 July to 12 October 2026, people transcribed 62 German recordings on WhipScribe; the median one was 5.1 minutes long and 15 % ran an hour or more. Processing took a median 2.4 minutes per hour of audio. Our quality review, an AI-assisted reading of a timed excerpt of each transcript, scored 82 % of 62 as clean (4 or 5 of 5). It is a reading check, not a word-error-rate test, and music, noise and mixed languages pull scores down more than the language itself.
English subtitles or an English translation
Once the German transcript is unlocked, choose English (or any of 99 languages) under Translate into above it and download TXT, DOCX, SRT or VTT with the original timing; translating an unlocked transcript adds no charge beyond the minutes the transcription used. It is machine translation, not a certified one.
What it costs
Every recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes. The rest transcribes with a minute pack: $4 / 500 minutes, $12 / 2,000 minutes or $24 / 5,000 minutes, one-time. Credits never expire.
How to do it
- Open WhipScribe and drop the German audio or video onto the upload box, or paste a public link.
- Wait while it processes; about two minutes per hour of audio is typical.
- Read the free preview, then open the full transcript with a pack.
- Read it through against the audio (the timestamps take you to each line) and correct names and places.
- Export as TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT or JSON, or translate it first.