Free Swedish Speech-to-Text
Upload your Swedish audio or video and get an accurate, editable transcript in minutes — automatic, browser-based and free to start.
Swedish is spoken by around 10 million people and is the official language of Sweden and one of the two official languages of Finland, where a Swedish-speaking minority lives along the coast. It is a North Germanic language closely related to Norwegian and Danish, and it powers a busy world of Swedish podcasts, news, corporate meetings and academic lectures.
ConvertSpeech transcribes them automatically. Upload your audio or video and our speech-recognition engine writes out the spoken Swedish with its special letters å, ä and ö 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 Swedish for
Journalists and interviews
Turn recorded Swedish interviews into quotable text in minutes instead of hours.
Researchers and students
Convert Swedish lectures and interviews into searchable notes you can quote and analyse.
Business and media
Generate Swedish subtitles, meeting notes and show notes straight from your video or podcast audio.
How ConvertSpeech handles spoken Swedish
Swedish is one of the few European languages with a tonal word accent: many words carry a pitch pattern that can distinguish otherwise identical spellings, as in "anden" said one way meaning "the duck" and another way meaning "the spirit". This musical rise and fall is a hallmark of the standard central-Swedish sound, and clear audio helps the engine capture the words correctly.
ConvertSpeech is tuned for standard Swedish and produces natural text, including the å, ä and ö characters, from clean recordings. Regional accents vary across the country, but the single biggest factor in accuracy is recording quality — a clear signal with little background noise beats everything else.
Tips for accurate Swedish transcription
- Record with a good microphone and minimal background noise for the best accuracy.
- Keep the language set to Swedish rather than auto-detect when you know the recording is Swedish.
- 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 å, ä and ö carry through correctly when you paste the text into another tool.