How well does it handle Italian?
This is one of the engine’s strongest languages — expect clean, publishable text from clear audio.
One of the strongest languages we transcribe; clean punctuation and paragraphing.
Regional accents are fine; heavy dialect (Neapolitan, Sicilian) is transcribed toward standard Italian, so review dialect-dense recordings.
What you get
Speaker labels
Every voice in the recording is separated and labelled — works in Italian 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 Italian SRT and VTT subtitle files possible.
Search & quote
The transcript is searchable in Italian — 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 Italian audio here
Interviews, homilies, seminars and oral-history archives.
Transcribe Italian by recording type
Italian audio to text · Italian interview · Italian lecture · Italian podcast · Italian meeting · Italian youtube video
Questions people ask
Do I need to tell it the audio is Italian?
No — the language is detected from the first seconds of audio automatically. If a recording mixes Italian and English, each part is transcribed in the language actually spoken.
Can I get English text from Italian audio?
No. The transcript comes back in the language that was spoken, so Italian audio produces Italian text. Captions and every export stay in the source language; translation is not something Whipscribe does.
Does it work on Italian 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 Italian transcript is typically ready in about a minute per half hour of audio.
Related: Audio to text · Subtitle generator · Interview transcription · Bulk transcription