Dutch Transcription — Online Audio Transcriber

Transcribe Dutch audio and video recordings to text online. Upload a file and receive accurate Dutch text output. No software installation required.

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Speech to Text Dutch

The Netherlands sits at the crossroads of European trade, and Dutch is the language that keeps those connections running. Roughly 25 million people speak Dutch natively — 17 million in the Netherlands, over 6 million in Flanders (Belgium), plus communities in Suriname, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten. As the third most widely spoken Germanic language after English and German, Dutch plays a disproportionate role in international commerce, logistics and EU institutions. Narakeet offers speech to text Dutch using the standard Netherlands model (nl-NL), converting recordings into accurate written output.

Dutch transcription demand comes from corporate meetings, court proceedings, academic research and media production across the Dutch-speaking world. The dutch transcriber processes recordings entirely in the cloud, delivering voice to text dutch results you can review, edit or export. Whether you need to transcribe dutch audio from a single interview or batch-process an archive, Narakeet’s dutch speech recognition engine handles it without any software on your device.

How to Transcribe Dutch Audio to Text

Converting speech to text Dutch requires just three steps:

1. Navigate to Audio to Text in your browser
2. Select and upload your Dutch audio or video recording
3. Review the transcript that appears, then copy or download it

Everything runs server-side, so there is no plugin or desktop application to worry about. Dutch voice to text works from a laptop, tablet or phone — you can transcribe dutch audio to text wherever you have a browser. The first files do not require an account.

Dutch Speech to Text Free Online

Dutch speech to text is free for 20 recordings up to 10 minutes each — no registration needed. Upload and receive your transcript immediately. Audio to text dutch works the same for free and paid users; the difference is capacity.

Commercial accounts extend the limit to 60 minutes per recording and 350 MB per file. This turns Narakeet into a dutch transcription service suitable for law firms digitising depositions, newsrooms processing broadcast footage, or researchers archiving oral history interviews. The audio to text converter dutch functionality remains identical — longer files simply take more processing time.

Dutch Audio to Text — Practical Guidance

Dutch audio to text currently accepts MP3 uploads. Support for WAV, M4A and video formats including MP4 and MOV is planned — video uploads will have their audio track extracted automatically. During the beta phase, recordings up to 60 minutes are accepted.

Transcription quality depends on the clarity of the source recording. Studio-grade audio and close-mic interviews produce the strongest results. Background noise, overlapping speakers or heavy regional dialect (Limburgish, Brabantian, West Flemish) may reduce precision, since the engine is trained on standard Netherlands Dutch. For Flemish speakers using standard Belgian Dutch, accuracy remains high — the differences from Netherlands Dutch are primarily in pronunciation and vocabulary rather than grammar.

If you need Dutch audio generated from written text, try our Dutch Text to Speech voices.