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Finnish transcription, in detail
Accuracy, the accents we cover, and the words worth teaching your custom dictionary.
Estimated accuracy
Known locally as
Script, left to right
Model
Estimated on clear, single-speaker audio. Recording quality, crosstalk and background noise move this figure further than the language itself does.
Accents and varieties covered
Finnish is not one accent. These are the varieties the model is built to handle, so a regional speaker is not a special case.
Standard Finnish Spoken Finnish Helsinki Ostrobothnian Savonian- Speakers
- about 5.4 million
- Where it's spoken
- Finland, with communities in Sweden and Estonia
- Language family
- Uralic, Finnic
- Say hello
- Hei
What the output looks like
Timestamped, speaker-labelled, and editable in your browser the moment it lands.
Aloitetaan viime neljänneksen luvuista.
In English: Let's start with last quarter's figures.
Words worth adding to your custom dictionary
Every language has a handful of words any engine has to guess at. In Finnish these are the usual ones. Add them to your custom dictionary once and they come back right in every transcript from then on.
| Commonly guessed | What you meant | Why they collide |
|---|---|---|
| tuli | tuuli | Vowel length is the only thing between fire and wind. |
| tapan | tapaan | One vowel's length separates I kill from I meet. |
| Jarvinen | Järvinen | Umlauts get stripped when names pass through English systems. |
Getting the best Finnish transcript
Add proper nouns and technical terms to your custom dictionary in their base form. Finnish stacks endings onto a stem, and the dictionary lets the model find the stem underneath them.
Ask speakers to say their full name at the start. Finnish surnames inflect like any other noun, and a spoken nominative gives you the base form to label speakers with in the editor.
Common questions about Finnish transcription
Who needs Finnish transcription?
Finnish public authorities, universities and research institutes, technology and forestry companies, and broadcasters producing Finnish-language programming.
How accurate is Finnish transcription?
We estimate around 96.1% on clear, single-speaker Finnish audio. Recording quality moves that figure further than the language does, so a close microphone and one person speaking at a time is the biggest lever you have. Names, places and industry terms go into your custom dictionary once and come back right in every transcript after that.
Which Finnish accents and dialects are supported?
These varieties: Standard Finnish, Spoken Finnish, Helsinki, Ostrobothnian, Savonian. The model is built for all of them, so a recording with several accents in the room is handled the same way as one without.
What is distinctive about Finnish?
Finnish stacks grammatical endings onto a stem, so what English needs a clause for Finnish says in one long word. The model transcribes the full inflected word rather than guessing at a shorter root.
Will Finnish text export correctly?
Yes. Finnish text (Latin) comes through every export unchanged: Microsoft Word, PDF, plain text, and SRT, VTT and Avid DS subtitles. Text direction and diacritics survive the round trip, so a transcript opens the way it looked in the editor.
How long does Finnish transcription take?
Most transcriptions are ready in less time than the length of the file. A 60-minute recording is typically processed well under an hour, and you get an email as soon as it is ready.
Can I translate a Finnish transcript?
Yes. Pick a target language and click translate: your Finnish transcript is translated into any of 60+ languages as a full, editable document with word-level timestamps preserved, so you can export subtitles from the translation just as you would from the original.
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Ensuring accuracy for automatically transcribing Finnish audio into text
Just like converting any language audio or video file into text, there are a few tips to follow to get the best results:
Ensure that speakers are not talking over each other and that the recording device is close to the person speaking.
Try to reduce background noise
Try to eliminate any static or echo
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