Transcribe Finnish audio with WhisperAI
WhisperAI transcribes Finnish (Suomi) audio for the around 5.5 million speakers who use the language across Finland, with smaller communities in Sweden, Estonia and the US. Built on OpenAI Whisper and tuned for the realities of Finnish speech, the service produces publication-grade transcripts in Latin alphabet with ä and ö.
Finnish agglutination and the spoken vs written gap
Finnish is heavily agglutinative — a single noun can carry case, possessive and clitic suffixes, producing 30-character words that ASR routinely mis-segments. Spoken Finnish (puhekieli) also differs significantly from written Finnish (yleiskieli) — "minä olen" is spoken "mä oon". Whisper handles both registers and produces transcripts that match the speaker's register rather than over-formalising.
Standard Finnish, spoken Finnish (puhekieli), Eastern and Western dialects are all supported.
What Finnish transcripts include
Native Latin alphabet with ä and ö
Output in Latin alphabet with ä and ö with all diacritics, tone marks, special characters and script-specific conventions preserved — never transliteration.
Speaker labels
Diarisation that separates and labels speakers in Finnish interviews, panels and multi-party meetings.
Timestamps and SRT
Word-level timestamps and SRT subtitle export for Finnish video captioning, with proper line-breaking for the script.
Editor and exports
In-browser editor with PDF, DOCX, TXT and SRT exports. Edit the transcript without leaving the browser, then download the format your downstream workflow expects.
How Finnish speakers actually use WhisperAI
- Helsinki tech-firm meetingsFinnish tech (Supercell, Wolt, Rovio) transcribe Finnish meetings with English business vocabulary preserved correctly.
- Finnish public-sector documentationMunicipalities and Eduskunta transcribe Finnish meetings under public-records law (julkisuusperiaate).
- Finnish academic interviewsUniversities transcribe Finnish qualitative research with full agglutinative-morphology handling.
- Finnish-language podcasts and broadcastingYle and independent Finnish podcasters transcribe episodes for show notes and accessibility.
How to transcribe Finnish audio
Upload your Finnish recording
Drop in MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4 or similar — files up to 5GB. Long-form Finnish interviews, lectures and meetings work without splitting.
Whisper transcribes the audio
The model recognises Finnish speech across the dialects above and outputs Latin alphabet with ä and ö. Code-switched English and other languages in the same recording are handled inline.
Edit, label and export
Open the transcript in the editor, fix any names or terms, label speakers, and export to PDF, DOCX, TXT or SRT. Optional AI summary surfaces the key points and decisions.
Who actually needs Finnish transcription
Finnish demand comes from Helsinki tech, Finnish public-sector documentation, and academic research at Helsinki, Aalto and Oulu universities.
Dialects and varieties handled
- Standard Finnish (Yleiskieli)
- Spoken Finnish (Puhekieli)
- Eastern Finnish dialects
- Western Finnish dialects
Transcription guides and best practices
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