Transcribe Italian audio with WhisperAI
WhisperAI transcribes Italian (Italiano) audio for the about 65 million native speakers, plus large diaspora communities in Argentina, the US, Brazil and Australia who use the language across Italy, San Marino, Vatican City, Switzerland (Ticino and Grigioni), Slovenia, Croatia (Istria), Malta and Italian-heritage communities worldwide. Built on OpenAI Whisper and tuned for the realities of Italian speech, the service produces publication-grade transcripts in Latin alphabet with grave and acute accents (à è é ì ò ù).
How Italian speakers actually use WhisperAI
- Fashion and luxury-brand videoMilan-based fashion houses need accurate Italian captions and transcripts for runway videos, behind-the-scenes content and influencer interviews — preserving brand and designer name spelling.
- University and research interviewsItalian sociology, anthropology and medical-humanities researchers transcribe long-form interviews and use the transcript as the basis for qualitative coding.
- Northern Italian SME meetingsFamily businesses across Lombardy and Veneto record board and operations meetings; transcripts double as a paper trail for inheritance and audit purposes.
- Italian-language podcastsIndependent podcasters use transcripts to power show pages, search and quote-pulling for social distribution.
Italian regional variation runs deeper than the dialect labels suggest
Italian is officially one language but the regional varieties are linguistically closer to separate Romance languages — a Sicilian or Neapolitan speaker drops final vowels and uses vocabulary unrecognisable in Milan. WhisperAI transcribes most regional Italians into Standard Italian orthography, which is what publication, legal and business contexts actually require.
Standard Italian, Roman, Milanese, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Venetian and Swiss Italian are all transcribed into Standard Italian orthography.
Who actually needs Italian transcription
Italian transcription demand is concentrated in fashion and luxury-brand video content, university research (Italian academia is heavily oral), and SME businesses across Lombardy, Veneto and Lazio that need meeting notes and call records in Italian rather than translated English.
Dialects and varieties handled
- Standard Italian (based on Tuscan)
- Northern (Milanese, Veneto, Genovese)
- Central (Roman)
- Southern (Neapolitan, Sicilian, Calabrian)
- Swiss Italian
How to transcribe Italian audio
Upload your Italian recording
Drop in MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4 or similar — files up to 5GB. Long-form Italian interviews, lectures and meetings work without splitting.
Whisper transcribes the audio
The model recognises Italian speech across the dialects above and outputs Latin alphabet with grave and acute accents (à è é ì ò ù). 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.
What Italian transcripts include
Native Latin alphabet with grave and acute accents (à è é ì ò ù)
Output in Latin alphabet with grave and acute accents (à è é ì ò ù) with all diacritics, tone marks, special characters and script-specific conventions preserved — never transliteration.
Speaker labels
Diarisation that separates and labels speakers in Italian interviews, panels and multi-party meetings.
Timestamps and SRT
Word-level timestamps and SRT subtitle export for Italian 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.
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