How well does it handle German?
This is one of the engine’s strongest languages — expect clean, publishable text from clear audio.
Standard German plus Austrian and Swiss Standard German; strong on long compound nouns.
Compounds like Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung come through as single words, capitalized correctly. Swiss German dialect (Schwiizerdütsch) is harder than Standard German — expect to review those recordings.
What you get
Speaker labels
Every voice in the recording is separated and labelled — works in German 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 German SRT and VTT subtitle files possible.
Search & quote
The transcript is searchable in German — 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 German audio here
Business meetings, engineering discussions, university lectures. In the last 30 days people transcribed 40 German recordings here.
Transcribe German by recording type
German audio to text · German interview · German lecture · German podcast · German meeting · German youtube video
Questions people ask
Do I need to tell it the audio is German?
No — the language is detected from the first seconds of audio automatically. If a recording mixes German and English, each part is transcribed in the language actually spoken.
Can I get English text from German audio?
No. The transcript comes back in the language that was spoken, so German audio produces German text. Captions and every export stay in the source language; translation is not something Whipscribe does.
Does it work on German 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 German transcript is typically ready in about a minute per half hour of audio.
Related: Audio to text · Subtitle generator · Interview transcription · Bulk transcription