German to English
Two ways to go from German audio to English text, and which you want depends on whether you need the German as well. Ticking "Transcribe to English" gives you English in one pass on any plan, free included. Transcribing in the original language and then translating the finished transcript into English, free on every plan, gives you both documents — the German transcript and the English translation, sharing identical cue timings — which is what you want for bilingual subtitles or when someone has to check the original.
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Drop an audio or video file here, or click to choose.
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Upload an SRT, VTT, ASS or other subtitle file, translate it into 134+ languages with Google Translate, and download it with the original timings.
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.
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Transcribe
AI transcribes with timestamps and optional speaker labels, usually in minutes.
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Translate
Open the transcript in Google Translate for any of 134+ languages, with every timestamp kept, or tick “Transcribe to English” before you start.
Why ScribeToAny
- Handles Standard German plus Austrian and Swiss accents; strong dialect is harder.
- Long compounds and technical or legal terms are translated into English — check key terms before relying on them.
- Useful for engineering, manufacturing and automotive webinars that need English transcripts quickly.
Frequently asked questions
Does it handle Austrian and Swiss German accents?
Yes — Standard German plus Austrian and Swiss accents are recognised. Strong dialect that departs from Hochdeutsch is where a quick proofread in the editor helps most.
Do I get the German transcript too, or only English?
Both, if you want them. Transcribe in German, then click Translate on the finished transcript and pick English: the English is saved as a second track next to the German transcript, with identical cue timings, free on every plan. If you only need English, tick "Transcribe to English" instead and get it in one pass.
Can I make bilingual subtitles?
Yes. Both the German and English come out timestamped, so export SRT or VTT for each and they line up on the same video. That is the usual reason to keep both rather than transcribing straight to English.
Transcribe to English or Translate — which gives better English from German?
They work differently. Transcribe to English has the speech model write English directly in one pass — fast, but you never see the German it heard. Transcribing in German first and then using Translate lets you correct the German transcript before it's translated, so recognition errors don't carry into the English, and you keep both versions with the same timings. For anything you'll publish or quote, the second route is easier to check.
Should I choose Deutsch under Audio language?
If you're transcribing in German first, yes — choosing Deutsch skips auto-detection, which decides from roughly the first 30 seconds and can be thrown by an intro in another language. If you tick Transcribe to English, the source language is still detected or taken from your choice, and the output is English either way.