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Transcription Overview

This article shows how to generate and download a transcript, and track your transcription hours along with the languages we offer.

Updated over 3 months ago

How to Generate a Transcript

Go to your episode’s publish page and click ‘Generate transcript’:

A pop-up window will appear where you need to click ‘Generate’. It can take several minutes to generate the transcript depending on your episode length.

How to Download a Transcript

When the transcript is ready, you’ll see a ‘Download transcript’ button.

From the pop-up transcript window, you have options to:

  • include speaker names/identification (These will show as Speaker A, Speaker B, etc, but you can type in the actual names of the people speaking) Selected languages only, support speaker labels.

  • include timestamps English speaking only

  • censor swear words

  • choose which file format to export

Click the "Download Transcript Button when you are ready to download. Download formats inlcude plain text, word, srt and csv.

Note: Only some languages support multiple speaker identification (Speaker A, B C etc) , the section below denotes which languages are supported in this manner. All other languages will be displayed as a long block of text with no speaker identification.

Click the ‘Download Transcript’ button when you’re ready to download.

Transcription Fair Use Limit

Each Alitu account has a fair usage limit of 12 hours of transcription per month. You will see an error message if you've exceeded the limit.

You can view your transcription usage in the "settings" section of your account.

How to Get More Transcription Hours

If you need more transcription hours, the success team can manually add these for you. The cost will be $1/hr. All you need to do is contact the support team using the chat box below and let them know how many more hours you need for the month.

Transcription Languages

Alitu can generate transcripts for your episodes. We partnered with third-party transcription software to provide the most accurate transcriptions.

The following languages are fully-supported:

  • Chinese**

  • Dutch**

  • English (Australian)**

  • English (British)**

  • English (Global)**

  • English (US)**

  • Finnish**

  • French**

  • German**

  • Hindi**

  • Italian**

  • Japanese**

  • Korean**

  • Polish**

  • Portuguese**

  • Russian&&

  • Spanish**

  • Turkish**

  • Ukrainian

  • Vietnamese**

Languages marked ** will be auto detected and several speakers can be identifed in the transcription output.

For all other languages you can set your default transcription language via your settings>app preferences>transcription language.

Beta Supported Languages

We also have a number of Languages that are supported in Beta form, which means the transcript generated may not be as accurate as the languages above. The Beta languages supported are:

  • Afrikaans

  • Albanian

  • Amharic

  • Arabic

  • Armenian

  • Assamese

  • Azerbaijani

  • Bashkir

  • Basque

  • Belarusian

  • Bengali

  • Bosnian

  • Breton

  • Bulgarian

  • Burmese

  • Catalan

  • Croatian

  • Czech

  • Danish

  • Estonian

  • Faroese

  • Galician

  • Georgian

  • Greek

  • Gujarati

  • Haitian

  • Hausa

  • Hawaiian

  • Hebrew

  • Hungarian

  • Icelandic

  • Indonesian

  • Javanese

  • Kannada

  • Kazakh

  • Khmer

  • Lao

  • Latin

  • Latvian

  • Lingala

  • Lithuanian

  • Luxembourgish

  • Macedonian

  • Malagasy

  • Malay

  • Malayalam

  • Maltese

  • Maori

  • Marathi

  • Mongolian

  • Nepali

  • Norweigan & Norweigan Nynorsk

  • Occitan

  • Panjabi

  • Pashto

  • Persian

  • Romanian

  • Sanskrit

  • Serbian

  • Shona

  • Sindhi

  • Sinhala

  • Slovak

  • Slovenian

  • Somali

  • Sundanes

  • Swahili

  • Swedish

  • Tagalog

  • Tajik

  • Tamil

  • Tatar

  • Teluga

  • Thai

  • Tibetan

  • Turkmen

  • Urdu

  • Uzbek

  • Welsh

  • Yiddish

  • Yoruba

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