Podcast Transcription
Occitan-language podcasts can be automatically transcribed, making content accessible to a wider audience and enabling searchable archives for language preservation.
Occitan speech to text
Prepare a transcript draft from Occitan audio or video, then review the text alongside your recording.
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Review text with timestamps
Use the recording and timestamped text together to check names, unfamiliar words and speaker changes in context.
Edit before you publish
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Keep the useful parts
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From a recording to a useful transcript
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Review, then export
Check the draft against your recording, correct the text and timing, then export the format you need.
Varieties and writing conventions
Regional speech and spelling conventions matter. Identify the variety in your recording and check an excerpt before committing a larger project.
- Provençal
- Spoken in Provence and parts of the Rhône valley. Note the speaker’s variety and review local forms in context rather than assuming one written form fits every recording. Keep a consistent project convention, including place names and passages in French or another language.
- Languedocien
- Central Occitan dialect, spoken from the Garonne to the Rhône. Often considered the most conservative dialect phonologically and serves as a reference for the classical standard.
- Gascon
- Spoken in Gascony and Béarn. Known for its strong phonological differences from other Occitan dialects, including the change of initial /f/ to /h/ and the preservation of Latin /kw/.
- Limousin
- Spoken in Limousin and parts of the Dordogne. Characterized by palatalization of certain consonants and a distinct vowel inventory.
- Auvergnat
- Spoken in Auvergne. Displays features such as the loss of final vowels and a strong influence from the local substrate.
- Vivaro-Alpine
- Spoken in the Alpine region of southeastern France and parts of Italy. Preserves many archaic features and has a unique intonation pattern.
What to check in your transcript
Prepare Occitan speech for review with the variety and intended writing convention clear from the start.
Results depend on the recording, selected model and language variety. Review names, specialist terms and unclear passages before sharing or publishing.
Variety
Note the speaker’s variety and review local forms in context rather than assuming one written form fits every recording.
Spelling convention
Keep a consistent project convention, including place names and passages in French or another language.
Check the Latin text
Review accents and language-specific letters. Check that similar-looking Cyrillic characters have not entered Latin words when editing or copying text.
The details that need attention
What to listen for when reviewing the first draft.
Dialectal Variation
Occitan has multiple mutually intelligible dialects with significant phonological and lexical differences. Regional Occitan pronunciation and vocabulary need review in their own context. When working with Provençal, Languedocien, Gascon, keep the speaker’s wording and check unfamiliar forms with a fluent reviewer.
Orthographic Diversity
Two main orthographic norms (Classical and Mistralian) coexist, with local variations. Note the speaker’s variety and review local forms in context rather than assuming one written form fits every recording. Keep a consistent project convention, including place names and passages in French or another language.
Limited Training Data
As a minority language, Occitan has far less digital audio data than major languages. Note the speaker’s variety and review local forms in context rather than assuming one written form fits every recording. Keep a consistent project convention, including place names and passages in French or another language.
Homophones and Regional Accents
Words that sound alike in one dialect may differ in another, and strong regional accents can confuse generic models. Regional Occitan pronunciation and vocabulary need review in their own context. When working with Provençal, Languedocien, Gascon, keep the speaker’s wording and check unfamiliar forms with a fluent reviewer.
Work with your recordings
Practical ways to turn a recording into material you can search, edit and reuse.
Film & Video Subtitles
Indie filmmakers and regional broadcasters can generate SRT and VTT subtitles for Occitan films, documentaries, and TV programs, supporting the language's media presence.
Academic Research
Linguists and historians studying Occitan literature, oral traditions, and dialectology benefit from draft transcripts for review of recorded interviews and archival audio.
Education & Language Learning
Schools and online courses use speech-to-text to create teaching materials, interactive exercises, and subtitled lessons in Occitan for learners of all ages.
Media Archiving
Cultural institutions and libraries digitize Occitan radio broadcasts, oral histories, and folk songs, with AI transcription enabling full-text search and metadata generation.
Language Activism
Activists and community groups transcribe meetings, events, and social media content to promote Occitan visibility and create accessible written records.
Text for your notes. Subtitles for your video.
After transcription and review in the app, choose the output that fits your next step.
- TXT
- Plain text for notes, documents and searching.
- SRT
- Subtitle cues for YouTube and video editors.
- VTT
- Web captions for HTML video players.
- JSON
- Structured transcript data for your own workflow.
Occitan Speech to Text: Preserving a Language Through AI Transcription
Occitan, known natively as lenga d'òc, is a Romance language spoken primarily in southern France, with smaller communities in Monaco, Italy (Occitan Valleys), and Spain (Val d'Aran). It was the language of the medieval troubadours and boasts a literary heritage that includes epic poems, love lyrics, and legal texts.
Why Accurate Occitan Speech-to-Text Is Critical
Digital tools are essential for language revitalization. Speech-to-text technology allows Occitan speakers to transcribe oral histories, community meetings, and cultural performances into written form. This creates searchable archives that can be used for education, research, and media production. Without such tools, much of the spoken language remains inaccessible to younger generations and non-speakers. Accurate transcription also supports the creation of subtitles for Occitan video content, expanding its reach on platforms like YouTube and social media.
Transcription Challenges Unique to Occitan
Occitan presents several challenges for automatic speech recognition:
- Dialectal variation: The six main dialects differ in pronunciation, vocabulary, and even verb conjugations. A single model must handle these differences gracefully.
- Orthographic norms: Two writing systems coexist: the Classical norm (based on medieval Occitan) and the Mistralian norm (based on Provençal French orthography). Note the speaker’s variety and review local forms in context rather than assuming one written form fits every recording. Keep a consistent project convention, including place names and passages in French or another language.
- Regional Occitan pronunciation and vocabulary need review in their own context. When working with Provençal, Languedocien, Gascon, keep the speaker’s wording and check unfamiliar forms with a fluent reviewer.
- Homophones and regional accents: Words like canta (he sings) and canta (sing! imperative) are pronounced identically in some dialects, requiring context-aware disambiguation.
Use Cases for Occitan Transcription
Podcasts and radio: Occitan-language programs like Ràdio Lenga d'Òc can automatically generate show notes and transcripts, improving discoverability.
Film subtitling: Independent filmmakers producing Occitan documentaries or short films can add SRT subtitles for international audiences.
Academic research: Linguists studying Occitan dialectology use transcribed interviews to analyze phonetic variation.
Education: Schools in Occitanie use transcribed audio to create reading materials for students learning the language.
Work from a saved Occitan audio or video recording in the online app. Review the resulting transcript and export SRT or VTT captions for your video; this describes a recorded-file workflow.
How Speechyou Helps
Users can upload audio or video files (MP3, WAV, MP4, etc.) and receive draft transcripts for review with timestamps. The system can generate subtitles in SRT, VTT, and other formats, ready for use in video editing software or online platforms. With unlimited transcription included in the Solo plan, it's an affordable solution for individuals and organizations working to keep Occitan alive in the digital age.
Start transcribing today and help ensure that the language of the troubadours continues to be heard and read for generations to come.
Questions before you start
Practical details before you start.
What Occitan dialects does Speechyou support?
Regional Occitan pronunciation and vocabulary need review in their own context. When working with Provençal, Languedocien, Gascon, keep the speaker’s wording and check unfamiliar forms with a fluent reviewer. Start with a short representative sample before processing an archive, and do not assume identical recognition quality across varieties.
Can I transcribe audio with a strong Provençal accent?
Regional Occitan pronunciation and vocabulary need review in their own context. When working with Provençal, Languedocien, Gascon, keep the speaker’s wording and check unfamiliar forms with a fluent reviewer. Start with a short representative sample before processing an archive, and do not assume identical recognition quality across varieties.
Does Speechyou support the Mistralian or Classical orthography for Occitan?
Check Occitan spelling against the recording and the writing convention used by your project. Review names, diacritics and unfamiliar word forms before exporting; a page’s script label does not replace checking the actual written output. Note the speaker’s variety and review local forms in context rather than assuming one written form fits every recording.
How accurate is Occitan speech recognition compared to major languages?
Note the speaker’s variety and review local forms in context rather than assuming one written form fits every recording. Keep a consistent project convention, including place names and passages in French or another language. Note the speaker’s variety and review local forms in context rather than assuming one written form fits every recording.
Can I generate subtitles for an Occitan video and export them in SRT format?
Upload common supported audio formats such as MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, OGG or FLAC, or video formats such as MP4, MOV or WEBM. Video transcription uses the audio track. Open your account first, select the recording language in the app, and review the result before export.
Is there a limit on the length of audio I can transcribe in Occitan?
With the Solo plan, you get unlimited transcription minutes. There is uploads up to the plan’s file-size limit; you can transcribe long recordings, such as full-length films or multi-hour oral history interviews.
Why should I record the Occitan variety before editing?
It gives the reviewer context for vocabulary and spelling choices and helps avoid changing a speaker’s local forms into another variety.
What written form should I review for Occitan?
Review the latin script text and check that it matches your project’s writing convention. Any transliteration or translation should be an explicit editing task; the page name alone is not a guarantee of automatic conversion.
Does choosing a file here start transcription?
No. Choosing or dropping a file takes you to signup. The landing page does not upload, store or transcribe it. After creating your account, select the file again in the app and choose the spoken language and model.
Which audio and video formats can I use?
The app accepts MP3, WAV, AAC, OGG, FLAC and M4A audio, plus MP4, WEBM, MOV, M4V and MPEG/MPG video. The free trial and Solo support files up to 10 GB each. You can extract or trim a short section first to evaluate the result.
Can I create subtitles and edit the transcript?
In the app, review and edit the transcript before exporting. Use TXT for plain text, SRT for video editors and YouTube, VTT for web captions, or JSON for structured data. Check subtitle timing and line breaks against the original video before publishing.
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- 1,700+ language support
- Browser voice recorder
- Share with view-only guests
- Priority email support
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