Free Danish Speech-to-Text
Upload your Danish audio or video and get an accurate, editable transcript in minutes — automatic, browser-based and free to start.
Danish is spoken by around 6 million people and is the official language of Denmark, with official status in the Faroe Islands and Greenland as well. It is a North Germanic language, closely related to Swedish and Norwegian on paper, and it drives a lively output of Danish podcasts, broadcast news, business meetings and university lectures.
ConvertSpeech transcribes them automatically. Upload your audio or video and our speech-recognition engine writes out the spoken Danish with its special letters æ, ø and å and proper 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 Danish for
Journalists and interviews
Turn recorded Danish interviews into quotable text in minutes instead of hours.
Researchers and students
Convert Danish lectures and interviews into searchable notes you can quote and analyse.
Business and media
Generate Danish subtitles, meeting notes and show notes straight from your video or podcast audio.
How ConvertSpeech handles spoken Danish
Danish is famous for the wide gap between how it is written and how it is spoken: many consonants soften or disappear, vowels blur together, and word endings are often swallowed, so the flowing sound can be a real challenge even for other Scandinavians. It also uses the "stød", a short catch or creak in the voice that can be the only thing separating two otherwise identical words. Because so much meaning rides on small, reduced sounds, a clean recording makes a bigger difference in Danish than in almost any other language.
ConvertSpeech is tuned for standard Danish and produces natural text, including the æ, ø and å characters, from clear recordings. Give the engine a clean signal and it has the best chance of catching those reduced sounds correctly — a clear recording with little background noise beats everything else.
Tips for accurate Danish transcription
- Record with a good microphone and minimal background noise — this matters especially for Danish, where reduced and swallowed sounds are easy to lose.
- Keep the language set to Danish rather than auto-detect when you know the recording is Danish.
- One speaker at a time transcribes best; overlapping speech reduces accuracy.
- For interviews, enable speaker detection (a free registered feature) to label each speaker.
- Check that æ, ø and å carry through correctly when you paste the text into another tool.