Transcribe Dutch Audio
Dutch speakers slip English words into ordinary sentences constantly, and the language’s long compound nouns and guttural sounds make it awkward to type out by ear. ScribeToAny transcribes Dutch speech into clean, punctuated text for interviews, meetings, lectures and videos, keeping the English words where they belong, then exports it in eight formats with timestamps.
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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
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AI transcribes with timestamps and optional speaker labels, usually in minutes.
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Why ScribeToAny
- Netherlands & Flemish Dutch: Handles Netherlands Dutch and Flemish (Belgian Dutch) pronunciation.
- Compounds & 'IJ': Compound nouns are written as single words, as Dutch spells them; the IJ digraph is usually capitalised correctly.
- Noisy Rooms: Clear audio works best; for meeting rooms and field audio, turn on Restore audio.
- Time-Aligned Captions: SRT/VTT cues of up to about 84 characters and 7 seconds, split at punctuation where possible.
Frequently asked questions
Does it keep English words mixed into Dutch?
Yes — the common English words that pepper spoken Dutch are transcribed as the English words they are, not forced into Dutch spelling. Whole sentences that switch fully to English are handled too.
Does it add punctuation and capitalisation?
Yes — the output is punctuated and capitalised as written Dutch, so it reads naturally and pastes into a document without cleanup. Long compound nouns come through as single words the way Dutch writes them.
Can it subtitle Dutch videos?
Yes. Transcripts are timestamped, so export SRT or VTT and put them straight on the video. The Dutch 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.
Dutch isn't in the language menu — how do I make sure it's detected?
Leave Audio language on Auto-detect: Dutch is recognised automatically. Detection listens to roughly the first 30 seconds, so if your recording opens with an English intro, music or a long silence, trim that part first — otherwise the file may be treated as another language. Flemish (Belgian Dutch) is detected as Dutch too.
How are Dutch subtitles split into lines?
Each cue is kept to about 7 seconds and 84 characters — two lines of roughly 42, the usual broadcast convention — and breaks at sentence or clause punctuation where possible. Long words such as arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekering can still make a line dense, so switch on Reading-speed & line checks in the subtitle editor and split any cue that runs too fast.