Indonesian audio and video to text

Formal and informal speech

Everyday Indonesian differs from the formal standard in vocabulary and word endings, and speakers often mix in regional languages or English. The transcript may normalise or mishear informal forms, so proofread slang and mixed-language passages.

Related languages

Indonesian and Malay are close, and both are listed as separate languages. If a recording is Malay, choose Malay instead.

Typical uses

Meetings, interviews, classes, content creators who need captions, and voice messages saved as audio files.

Which model works best for Indonesian

Indonesian is supported with a good amount of training material, but less than the largest languages, so the small model makes more slips than it does for English or Spanish, especially on rare words, names and fast or noisy speech. Expect a draft that needs a proper read-through.

On tryscriptorium.com the no-account preview and regular accounts run the small model (the larger medium and large-v3 models run when you self-host Scriptorium). In an account, pick Small in the model menu rather than Auto: Auto prefers the fastest, least accurate model for long files or a busy queue.

Indonesian has a good amount of training speech; clear audio gives a usable draft on the small model. Informal speech, regional-language words and English terms in the middle of a sentence are the usual corrections.

Subtitles and captions in Indonesian

Indonesian subtitles read comfortably at about 40 characters a line, two lines at most. Decide once whether to write informal forms (gak, nggak) or standard ones, and make the transcript match.

The uploader is set to Indonesian

The upload box on this page transcribes as Indonesian, so the recogniser does not have to guess the language from the first seconds. If the recording is in another language or switches languages, use Audio to text, which detects the language automatically. Automatic transcription is a draft and no accuracy figure is promised: check names, numbers and anything you will rely on.