Turn Russian meetings, interviews and lectures into searchable Cyrillic text with speaker labels and word-level timestamps.
iOS and Android. 30 minutes free, no card.
Does SozAI transcribe Russian?
SozAI transcribes Russian audio and video into Cyrillic text with automatic speaker labels and word-level timestamps. It writes standard Russian orthography, keeps Latin fragments and numerals intact inside Russian sentences, and exports to TXT, PDF, SRT and VTT. Recordings travel over HTTPS and are stored on our servers in Germany, and every account gets 30 minutes, once per account, without a card.
Русский, written the way it is actually written.
Specification
| Native name | Русский |
|---|---|
| ISO 639-1 code | ru |
| Writing system | Cyrillic |
| Text direction | Left to right |
| Speakers worldwide | ~255 million |
| Varieties covered | Standard Russian |
| Speaker labels | Yes — automatic diarization |
| Timestamps | Word level |
| Summaries | Yes, in the same language |
| Export formats | TXT, PDF, SRT, VTT, JSON |
| Maximum file size | 500 MB |
| Free tier | 30 minutes once, no card |
| Where data is stored | Stored on our servers in Germany, encrypted in transit |
| Public transcripts in this language | 6,099 |
Workflow
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.
Choose Russian, or leave detection on and SozAI identifies it from the first seconds. Recordings that mix Russian with English technical terms stay in a single transcript.
The transcript arrives with speaker labels and word timestamps. Search it, ask it questions, generate a summary in Russian, or export SRT and VTT subtitles.
Field notes
Russian lets you reorder a sentence almost freely because the endings say who did what to whom. That makes a single mis-heard suffix far more damaging than in English: get "директора" wrong and the subject and object swap. Accuracy on the last syllable of a word matters more in Russian than accuracy on the first.
In standard Moscow pronunciation unstressed "о" is spoken as "а", and several vowels merge further from the stress. The audio genuinely does not distinguish spellings that the written language does, so the transcript has to be recovered from vocabulary and grammar rather than from sound alone.
Russian business speech is full of full names with patronymics, and every one of them declines. The same person appears as "Иван Петрович", "Ивана Петровича" and "Иваном Петровичем" within a paragraph. Word-level timestamps are the practical fix: jump to the second the name was said and correct it once.
Technical and business recordings are full of English product names, acronyms and URLs dropped into Russian sentences. Those keep Latin script inside a Cyrillic paragraph, and naive tools transliterate them into Cyrillic and make them unsearchable. SozAI keeps each fragment in the script it belongs to.
From the archive
6,099 public Russian transcripts so far — every one produced by the same engine described above. Read them in full, no account needed.
![[s1 | 2023] Линейная алгебра, А. И. Трифанов, лекция 1 — Transcript — Russian transcript](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Zr0suWghTqY/maxresdefault.jpg)
[s1 | 2023] Линейная алгебра, А. И. Трифанов, лекция 1 — Transcript
ЗАЧЕМ МЯСО, ЕСЛИ ЕСТЬ ФАРШ? ПО-ФРАНЦУЗСКИ В ДУХОВКЕ БЕЗ ЗАМОРОЧЕК! — Transcript
Домашнее печенье «Изюминка» с изюмом, как в детстве — Transcript
МЯСО с ОВОЩАМИ в одной кастрюле! Ароматная ХАШЛАМА без лишних… — Transcript
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Answers
Short answers you can quote. Longer ones live in the sections above.
Yes, in standard Russian orthography. English words, product names, acronyms and URLs spoken inside a Russian sentence stay in Latin script rather than being transliterated, so the transcript remains searchable for both languages and pastes cleanly into a document.
Yes. Diarization runs on the audio, so each speaker gets a label and every turn a timestamp regardless of language. For interviews and recorded meetings this is what makes the transcript usable as a record rather than a single long paragraph.
They are transcribed as spoken, including declined forms. Because the same name appears in several grammatical cases across one conversation, the fastest way to normalise it is to use the word-level timestamps to jump to each occurrence rather than re-listening to the whole recording.
SozAI exports SRT and VTT in UTF-8 with word-level timing, so Cyrillic text loads correctly in YouTube, Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro and DaVinci Resolve without an encoding step. Mixed Cyrillic and Latin lines keep their order.
Every account gets 30 minutes of transcription once, at no cost and without a card. Beyond that, Premium is a subscription through the App Store or Google Play — from $3.99 a week or $44.99 a year in the US — and the price is the same in every language. Current plans are listed on the pricing page.
Where to use it
Everything below works in Russian, with the same speaker labels and word timestamps.
Transcribe your first Russian recording
Record, upload a file or paste a link. Cyrillic text with speakers and timestamps comes back.
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