Free Norwegian Speech-to-Text
Upload your Norwegian audio or video and get an accurate, editable transcript in minutes — automatic, browser-based and free to start.
Norwegian is spoken by around 5 million people and is the official language of Norway. It is a North Germanic language, closely related to Swedish and Danish, and it underpins a rich stream of Norwegian 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 Norwegian 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 Norwegian for
Journalists and interviews
Turn recorded Norwegian interviews into quotable text in minutes instead of hours.
Researchers and students
Convert Norwegian lectures and interviews into searchable notes you can quote and analyse.
Business and media
Generate Norwegian subtitles, meeting notes and show notes straight from your video or podcast audio.
How ConvertSpeech handles spoken Norwegian
Norwegian is unusual in having two official written standards — Bokmål, used by the large majority, and Nynorsk — and there is no single official spoken standard the way there is in many countries. In everyday life Norwegians simply speak their local dialect, and those dialects vary widely in pronunciation and vocabulary from region to region, from the west coast to the far north to the capital.
ConvertSpeech is tuned for standard Norwegian and produces natural written text, including the æ, ø and å characters, from clear recordings. It handles common speech well, but because dialect variation is so strong, the biggest factor in accuracy is still recording quality — a clear signal with little background noise beats everything else, especially with a broad regional dialect.
Tips for accurate Norwegian transcription
- Record with a good microphone and minimal background noise for the best accuracy.
- Keep the language set to Norwegian rather than auto-detect when you know the recording is Norwegian.
- A clearer, closer-to-standard delivery transcribes best; very broad regional dialects can be harder to catch.
- One speaker at a time transcribes best; overlapping speech reduces accuracy.
- For interviews, enable speaker detection (a free registered feature) to label each speaker.