Free Traditional Chinese Speech-to-Text
Upload your Traditional Chinese audio or video and get an accurate, editable transcript in minutes — automatic, browser-based and free to start.
Traditional Chinese is the written standard for Mandarin in Taiwan, where it is used by around 23 million people, as well as in Hong Kong and Macau. Unlike the simplified characters used on the mainland, it preserves the fuller, historical character forms, so Taiwanese news, business meetings, lectures and podcasts are recorded in Mandarin but written out with traditional characters.
ConvertSpeech transcribes them automatically. Upload your audio or video and our speech-recognition engine writes out the spoken Mandarin in traditional Chinese characters with 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 Traditional Chinese for
Journalists and interviews
Turn recorded Taiwanese interviews into quotable text in traditional characters in minutes instead of hours.
Researchers and students
Convert Mandarin lectures and interviews into searchable notes you can quote and analyse.
Creators and media
Generate traditional-character subtitles and show notes straight from your video or podcast audio.
Traditional versus simplified characters
Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau write Mandarin with traditional characters, while mainland China uses the simplified set introduced in the 1950s — 台灣 versus 台湾, 學習 versus 学习. ConvertSpeech is set up to produce traditional characters for Taiwanese Mandarin, so your transcript matches the script your readers expect rather than converting to simplified forms.
Spoken Taiwanese Mandarin also has its own flavour, with vocabulary and pronunciation habits that differ from Beijing Mandarin. The engine handles standard Mandarin well; as always, the largest factor in accuracy is recording quality — a clear signal with little background noise beats everything else.
Tips for accurate Traditional Chinese transcription
- Record with a good microphone and minimal background noise for the best accuracy.
- Keep the language set to Chinese rather than auto-detect when you know the recording is Mandarin.
- One speaker at a time transcribes best; overlapping speech reduces accuracy.
- Chinese is written without spaces between words, so review the punctuation and sentence breaks in the transcript.
- For interviews, enable speaker detection (a free registered feature) to label each speaker.