Free Croatian Speech-to-Text
Upload your Croatian audio or video and get an accurate, editable transcript in minutes — automatic, browser-based and free to start.
Croatian is spoken by around 5 million people and is the official language of Croatia, an EU member state, as well as one of the official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is written exclusively in the Latin alphabet, with its distinctive letters č, ć, š, ž and đ, and follows the ijekavian pronunciation standard — so vlijek and mlijeko rather than the ekavian lek and mleko.
ConvertSpeech transcribes it automatically. Upload your audio or video and our speech-recognition engine writes out the spoken Croatian in the Latin script with punctuation, ready to copy into a document, subtitle file or translation tool. It runs in your browser, needs no installation, and your first minutes are free with no account required.
What people transcribe Croatian for
Journalists and interviews
Turn recorded Croatian interviews into quotable text in minutes instead of hours.
Researchers and students
Convert Croatian lectures and interviews into searchable notes you can quote and analyse.
Creators and media
Generate Croatian subtitles and show notes straight from your video or podcast audio.
How ConvertSpeech handles spoken Croatian
Croatian is known for its linguistic purism: the standard language tends to coin native words rather than borrow — zrakoplov for aircraft, računalo for computer, tipkovnica for keyboard. ConvertSpeech is tuned for standard Croatian and produces natural Latin-script text, reflecting the ijekavian forms used in everyday speech and media.
Because Croatian is always written in Latin, there is no script ambiguity in the output — what you record comes back as clean Latin text with the correct diacritics. As always, the largest factor in accuracy is recording quality — a clear signal with little background noise beats everything else.
Tips for accurate Croatian transcription
- Record with a good microphone and minimal background noise for the best accuracy.
- Keep the language set to Croatian rather than auto-detect, so the output uses Croatian spelling and diacritics.
- Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian are closely related — selecting Croatian specifically gives you the ijekavian, Latin-only conventions.
- One speaker at a time transcribes best; overlapping speech reduces accuracy.
- For interviews, enable speaker detection (a free registered feature) to label each speaker.