Free Estonian Speech-to-Text

Estonian is spoken by around 1.1 million people and is the official language of Estonia, a member of the European Union. Despite Estonia's location on the Baltic Sea, Estonian is not a Baltic language at all — it is a Finno-Ugric language, closely related to Finnish and part of the same family as Hungarian, and unrelated to its Latvian and Lithuanian neighbours.

ConvertSpeech transcribes it automatically. Upload your audio or video and our speech-recognition engine writes out the spoken Estonian with its diacritics and 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.

Estonian is famous for its three-way length distinction: vowels and consonants can be short, long or overlong, and the difference alone can change a word's meaning. This system carries a lot of information in the audio, which makes clear recordings especially valuable. ConvertSpeech is tuned for standard Estonian and produces natural text, complete with the ä, ö, ü and õ characters, from clean recordings.

Standard Estonian is based on the northern dialect around Tallinn and is used consistently in broadcasting and education, so most speakers transcribe well. As always, the largest factor in accuracy is recording quality — a clear signal with little background noise beats everything else.