How well does it handle Cantonese?
Supported end-to-end; treat the output as a fast first draft and plan a review pass — it still beats typing from scratch.
Cantonese is supported as its own language (yue) — distinct from Mandarin — with traditional-script output.
Colloquial Cantonese particles (啦, 喎, 咩) appear in the output. Accuracy trails Mandarin; broadcast speech does noticeably better than street conversation, so plan a review pass for anything critical.
What you get
Speaker labels
Every voice in the recording is separated and labelled — works in Cantonese the same as in English, because speaker labels follow voices, not words.
Word-level timestamps
Each word is timed to the audio, which is what makes accurate Cantonese SRT and VTT subtitle files possible.
Search & quote
The transcript is searchable in Cantonese — jump to the exact second something was said and copy it with its timestamp.
Every export
TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX and JSON on every pack — no format paywall.
Who transcribes Cantonese audio here
Hong Kong sermons, radio archives, family-history tape.
Transcribe Cantonese by recording type
Cantonese audio to text · Cantonese interview · Cantonese lecture · Cantonese podcast · Cantonese meeting · Cantonese youtube video
Questions people ask
Do I need to tell it the audio is Cantonese?
No — the language is detected from the first seconds of audio automatically. If a recording mixes Cantonese and English, each part is transcribed in the language actually spoken.
Can I get English text from Cantonese audio?
No. The transcript comes back in the language that was spoken, so Cantonese audio produces Cantonese text. Captions and every export stay in the source language; translation is not something Whipscribe does.
Does it work on Cantonese video, not just audio?
Yes — upload MP4/MOV/WebM or paste a link; the audio track is extracted automatically and transcribed the same way.
How much does it cost?
A pack from $4 (500 minutes) opens the full transcript. Preview any transcript instantly with no signup; a pack from $4 opens the full transcript, no account needed. After that, one-time credit packs: $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes or $24 for 5,000 minutes, and credits never expire.
Is this live captioning?
No — Whipscribe transcribes recordings, not live speech. Upload a file that already exists and the Cantonese transcript is typically ready in about a minute per half hour of audio.
Related: Audio to text · Subtitle generator · Interview transcription · Bulk transcription