Free Hungarian Speech-to-Text

Hungarian is spoken by around 13 million people and is the official language of Hungary, as well as an official language of the European Union. Unlike most languages of Europe it is not Indo-European: it belongs to the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic family, distantly related to Finnish and Estonian, so Hungarian recordings span news, business, academia and creators alike.

ConvertSpeech transcribes them automatically. Upload your audio or video and our speech-recognition engine writes out the spoken Hungarian in the Latin alphabet with its accented letters 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.

Hungarian is an agglutinative language: it builds words by stacking suffixes onto a stem, so a single spoken word can carry meaning that other languages spread across several words, and grammatical relations are marked by roughly 18 cases rather than by prepositions. Vowel harmony then governs which form each suffix takes, so ConvertSpeech is tuned to write out these long, richly inflected word forms accurately from clean recordings.

Because Hungarian structure differs so much from the Indo-European languages around it, clear audio matters even more than usual for getting each suffix right. Standard Hungarian is fairly uniform across the country, so most speakers transcribe well — and as always, a clear signal with little background noise beats everything else.