Transcribe Indonesian Audio
Everyday Indonesian mixes formal Bahasa with casual speech, English loanwords and regional flavour, which makes a clean written record surprisingly fiddly to produce by hand. ScribeToAny transcribes Indonesian speech into punctuated, readable text for interviews, YouTube videos, podcasts and meetings, then exports it in eight formats with timestamps.
- AI transcription
- 98 Languages
- Encrypted; we never train AI on your files
Start with your recording
Drop an audio or video file here, or click to choose.
What you get: a real transcript
Unedited output from a 64-second interview with two speakers (synthetic voices), transcribed with speaker detection on. Only the first lines are shown.
SPEAKER_00 (0:00) Welcome back to Small Shop Stories. SPEAKER_00 (0:02) Today I'm talking to Maya, who runs a tiny bakery on the SPEAKER_00 (0:05) corner of Mill Street. SPEAKER_01 (0:07) Thanks for having me. SPEAKER_01 (0:08) It's really small, just two ovens and a counter. SPEAKER_00 (0:12) So how does a normal day start for you?
1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,680 [SPEAKER_00] Welcome back to Small Shop Stories. 2 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:05,320 [SPEAKER_00] Today I'm talking to Maya, who runs a tiny bakery on the 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:06,320 [SPEAKER_00] corner of Mill Street.
Checked against the script, 4 of 189 words differed — a 2.1% word error rate, counting "80" written for "eighty" as an error — and all 14 speaker turns were labelled correctly. This was clean speech; noisy recordings and people talking over each other score lower. See the full transcript and how it was scored
How it works
- 1
Upload
Drop in an audio or video file, or paste a link. All common formats are accepted.
- 2
Transcribe
AI transcribes with timestamps and optional speaker labels, usually in minutes.
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Export
Edit segments online, then export TXT, SRT, VTT, TSV, CSV, JSON, PDF or DOCX.
Why ScribeToAny
- Formal & Casual Indonesian: Handles Bahasa Baku and everyday Bahasa Gaul; heavy slang may need a check.
- Affixes & Reduplication: Prefixes, suffixes and reduplicated words (kata ulang) are written in standard spelling.
- Speaker Labels: Turn on Detect speakers to label who spoke in podcasts, focus groups and meetings.
- Formatted Export: Export SRT, VTT, DOCX and TXT with a timestamp on every segment.
Frequently asked questions
Does it handle casual speech and English loanwords?
Yes. Mixed formal-and-casual Indonesian and common English loanwords are transcribed as spoken. Heavy code-switching between Indonesian and English mid-sentence is the spot to glance over in the editor.
Do I need to pick the language first?
No — and Indonesian isn't in the language menu yet, so leave Audio language on Auto-detect. Detection listens to roughly the first 30 seconds; if your recording opens with an English intro, music or a long silence, trim that part first so it isn't treated as another language.
Can it subtitle Indonesian videos?
Yes. Transcripts are timestamped, so export SRT or VTT and put them straight on the video. The Indonesian transcript can also be translated into 134+ languages for free, on every plan. The translation keeps the original timings, so a translated SRT lines up with the video too.
Can I get an English version of an Indonesian recording?
Yes. Tick Transcribe to English before starting and the Indonesian speech comes back as English text in one pass, on every plan. Or keep the Indonesian transcript and translate it afterwards into 134+ languages with the subtitle timings kept.
How long can an Indonesian recording be?
On the free plan each file can run up to 30 minutes; paid plans take files up to 6 hours and 5 GB, so a full webinar, sermon or lecture goes in as one upload. Minutes count against your monthly allowance by the recording's length.