Transcribe Occitan audio with WhisperAI
WhisperAI transcribes Occitan (Occitan) audio for the around 800,000 speakers, with revitalisation efforts in southern France, parts of Spain and Italy who use the language across southern France (Occitanie), the Aran Valley in Catalonia, and Occitan-speaking valleys in Italy. Built on OpenAI Whisper and tuned for the realities of Occitan speech, the service produces publication-grade transcripts in Latin alphabet with grave and acute accents.
How Occitan speakers actually use WhisperAI
- Occitan-revitalisation mediaÒc TV, Ràdio Occitània and Occitan-language schools transcribe Occitan content for distribution.
- Aranese institutional documentationAran Valley institutions transcribe Aranese-language meetings under official-language protections.
- Occitan academic workUniversities transcribe Occitan qualitative research and oral histories.
- Occitan cultural documentationCultural institutions document Occitan oral traditions.
Occitan as a major Romance language without state support
Occitan is a major Romance language that for historical reasons lacks state-language status — French ASR routinely outputs it as broken French. Whisper handles Occitan as a separate language with its dialect range from Provençal in the east to Gascon in the west.
Languedocien, Provençal, Gascon, Limousin, Auvergnat and Aranese are all supported.
Who actually needs Occitan transcription
Occitan demand comes from Occitan-revitalisation organisations, Aranese institutional work in Catalonia (Aranese is officially recognised), and academic Romance-philology work.
Dialects and varieties handled
- Languedocien (standard reference)
- Provençal
- Gascon
- Limousin
- Auvergnat
- Aranese
How to transcribe Occitan audio
Upload your Occitan recording
Drop in MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4 or similar — files up to 5GB. Long-form Occitan interviews, lectures and meetings work without splitting.
Whisper transcribes the audio
The model recognises Occitan speech across the dialects above and outputs Latin alphabet with grave and acute accents. 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 Occitan transcripts include
Native Latin alphabet with grave and acute accents
Output in Latin alphabet with grave and acute accents with all diacritics, tone marks, special characters and script-specific conventions preserved — never transliteration.
Speaker labels
Diarisation that separates and labels speakers in Occitan interviews, panels and multi-party meetings.
Timestamps and SRT
Word-level timestamps and SRT subtitle export for Occitan 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.
Transcription guides and best practices
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