**Chinese Transcription — Convert Audio & Video to Text | SozAI** Source: https://sozai.app/transcription/chinese/ # Chinese Audio to Text 中文 Turn Chinese meetings, interviews and lectures into searchable text with speaker labels — Mandarin and Cantonese, Simplified or Traditional characters. [Get the App — Free](https://sozai.app/download/) iOS and Android. 30 minutes free, no card. [Transcribe a YouTube link](https://sozai.app/youtube-transcript/) 99% Accuracy 10x Faster than real time 30 min Free monthly 274 Public transcripts 500 MB Max file Does SozAI transcribe Chinese? SozAI transcribes Chinese audio and video into text for Mandarin and Cantonese, with automatic speaker labels and word-level timestamps. Output can be Simplified or Traditional characters, and exports to TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT and VTT. Recordings are processed in EU data centers and encrypted at rest, and every account gets 30 minutes a month without a card. - Han (Simplified and Traditional) - Left to right - Speaker labels - Word-level timestamps - SRT · VTT · DOCX 中文, written the way it is actually written. Specification ## Chinese transcription at a glance Chinese — SozAI capability sheet ZH | Native name | 中文 | | --- | --- | | ISO 639-1 code | zh | | Writing system | Han (Simplified and Traditional) | | Text direction | Left to right | | Speakers worldwide | ~1.1 billion | | Varieties covered | Mandarin, Cantonese | | Speaker labels | Yes — automatic diarization | | Timestamps | Word level | | Summaries | Yes, in the same language | | Export formats | TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT | | Maximum file size | 500 MB | | Free tier | 30 minutes per month, no card | | Where data is stored | EU data centers, AES-256 at rest | | Public transcripts in this language | 274 | Workflow ## How to transcribe Chinese audio 1. 01 ### Add the recording Record straight into the app, upload a file up to 500 MB, or paste a YouTube link. SozAI reads m4a, mp3, wav, aac, mp4 and mov. 2. 02 ### Set Chinese, or let it detect Choose Mandarin or Cantonese and your character set, or leave detection on. Recordings that mix Chinese with English technical terms stay in a single transcript. 3. 03 ### Read, search and export The transcript arrives with speaker labels and word timestamps. Search it, ask it questions, generate a summary in Chinese, or export SRT and VTT subtitles. Field notes ## What makes Chinese hard to transcribe ### Tone is not an accent, it is the word Mandarin distinguishes syllables by pitch contour, so mā, má, mǎ and mà are four unrelated words. A tone error is a word error, not a pronunciation quirk, and compressed phone audio is exactly where tone contours degrade. This is the single biggest driver of accuracy differences between clean and noisy Chinese recordings. ### No spaces, so segmentation comes first Chinese is written without word boundaries. Before the transcript can be searched or time-aligned, the system has to decide where words start and end, and different segmentations of the same characters can be equally grammatical with different meanings. Search behaviour in Chinese transcripts depends entirely on getting this right. ### Mandarin and Cantonese are not variants of each other They are not mutually intelligible in speech, and Cantonese has its own vocabulary, grammar and written characters. Treating Cantonese as accented Mandarin produces confident nonsense, so it is a separate target. Recordings that switch between them within one meeting remain the hardest case. ### Simplified or Traditional is a real decision The same spoken sentence is written differently in mainland China than in Taiwan or Hong Kong, and the mapping is not always one to one. Choosing the wrong character set produces a transcript that is technically readable and immediately marks the document as foreign to its audience. From the archive ## Chinese transcripts published on SozAI 274 public Chinese transcripts so far — every one produced by the same engine described above. 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These have a page of their own. - [العربية Arabic AR](https://sozai.app/transcription/arabic/) - [Español Spanish ES](https://sozai.app/transcription/spanish/) - [Português Portuguese PT](https://sozai.app/transcription/portuguese/) - [Deutsch German DE](https://sozai.app/transcription/german/) - [Français French FR](https://sozai.app/transcription/french/) - [Русский Russian RU](https://sozai.app/transcription/russian/) - [Türkçe Turkish TR](https://sozai.app/transcription/turkish/) - [हिन्दी Hindi HI](https://sozai.app/transcription/hindi/) - [日本語 Japanese JA](https://sozai.app/transcription/japanese/) - [한국어 Korean KO](https://sozai.app/transcription/korean/) - [Қазақша Kazakh KK](https://sozai.app/transcription/kazakh/) Answers ## Chinese transcription — your questions Short answers you can quote. Longer ones live in the sections above. Does SozAI support Cantonese as well as Mandarin? Yes, as a separate target rather than as an accent of Mandarin. The two are not mutually intelligible in speech and Cantonese has its own vocabulary and written forms, so selecting the right one matters more than it does for most dialect choices in other languages. Can I get Traditional characters instead of Simplified? Yes. Both character sets are supported, and the choice affects the whole transcript. Because the mapping between them is not strictly one to one, picking the right one up front produces better output than converting afterwards. Can it separate speakers in a Chinese meeting? Yes. Diarization runs on the audio rather than the language, so each speaker gets a label and every turn a timestamp. For 会议记录 this is what turns a recording into a document you can circulate rather than a wall of characters. Are Chinese subtitles exported correctly? SozAI exports SRT and VTT in UTF-8 with word-level timing, so Chinese characters load correctly in YouTube, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Line breaking still deserves a human pass, since Chinese subtitle conventions differ from Latin-script ones. How much does Chinese transcription cost? Every account gets 30 minutes per month free without a card. Beyond that SozAI is a flat monthly subscription with a shared pool of minutes, and the price does not depend on the language. Current plans are listed on the pricing page. Where to use it ## Chinese transcription across SozAI Everything below works in Chinese, with the same speaker labels and word timestamps. - [Audio to text Upload a file up to 500 MB and get a transcript back.](https://sozai.app/audio-to-text/) - [Video to text Pull the spoken track out of any video file.](https://sozai.app/video-to-text/) - [YouTube transcript Paste a link — no account needed.](https://sozai.app/youtube-transcript/) - [Subtitles Export SRT and VTT with word-level timing.](https://sozai.app/subtitle-generator/) - [Meeting recorder Record the call and get notes with action items.](https://sozai.app/meeting-recorder/) - [Interviews Speaker-separated transcripts you can quote from.](https://sozai.app/interview-transcription/) Transcribe your first Chinese recording Record, upload a file or paste a link. Speakers, timestamps and a summary come back together. [Get the App — Free](https://sozai.app/download/) Free on iOS and Android. No account required for YouTube transcripts. --- This is the markdown twin of https://sozai.app/transcription/chinese/ — the same content, without the markup. Published by SozAI (https://sozai.app). Reuse and quotation are allowed with attribution and a link back. Machine-readable index: https://sozai.app/llms.txt · data API: https://sozai.app/api/