Transcribe Korean audio with WhisperAI
WhisperAI transcribes Korean (한국어) audio for the around 80 million speakers across the Korean peninsula and the diaspora who use the language across South Korea, North Korea, parts of northeastern China (Yanbian), and large diaspora communities in the US, Japan and Central Asia. Built on OpenAI Whisper and tuned for the realities of Korean speech, the service produces publication-grade transcripts in Hangul (한글), occasionally with Hanja for disambiguation.
Who actually needs Korean transcription
Korean demand is split between K-content production (drama, K-pop, variety shows that need captions in Korean and for translation), enterprise meeting transcription at chaebol and tech firms, and a fast-growing Korean podcast scene.
Dialects and varieties handled
- Seoul standard (South)
- Gyeongsang (Busan, Daegu)
- Jeolla (Gwangju)
- Jeju
- Pyongyang standard (North)
Honorifics, sentence-final particles and the Hangul-only output question
Korean grammar attaches honorific levels and sentence-final particles that change the entire register of a sentence (-습니다 vs -아요 vs -어). A transcript that drops or normalises those markers loses the social meaning of the conversation. Whisper produces Hangul output with the original honorific level intact, which is what publication, legal and HR contexts in Korea actually need.
Seoul standard, Gyeongsang, Jeolla and Jeju dialects are all handled, with output in Standard Korean Hangul.
How Korean speakers actually use WhisperAI
- K-drama and K-pop production captionsKorean entertainment producers transcribe dialogue and on-screen interviews to feed translation pipelines for Netflix, Disney+ and YouTube global distribution.
- Chaebol and tech-firm meeting minutesSamsung, Naver, Kakao and similar firms produce huge volumes of internal meeting recordings; transcripts in Hangul cut documentation time dramatically.
- Korean-language podcasts and YouTubeIndependent Korean creators use transcripts for show notes, SEO, and to make their content searchable.
- Korean → English research interviewsResearchers studying Korean society or markets get a Korean transcript first, then a translation — keeping the original record auditable.
What Korean transcripts include
Native Hangul (한글), occasionally with Hanja for disambiguation
Output in Hangul (한글), occasionally with Hanja for disambiguation with all diacritics, tone marks, special characters and script-specific conventions preserved — never transliteration.
Speaker labels
Diarisation that separates and labels speakers in Korean interviews, panels and multi-party meetings.
Timestamps and SRT
Word-level timestamps and SRT subtitle export for Korean 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 to transcribe Korean audio
Upload your Korean recording
Drop in MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4 or similar — files up to 5GB. Long-form Korean interviews, lectures and meetings work without splitting.
Whisper transcribes the audio
The model recognises Korean speech across the dialects above and outputs Hangul (한글), occasionally with Hanja for disambiguation. 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.
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