Transcribe Yoruba audio with WhisperAI
WhisperAI transcribes Yoruba (Yorùbá) audio for the around 45 million speakers who use the language across southwestern Nigeria, Benin, Togo and the global Yoruba diaspora (especially Brazil and Cuba where it influenced Candomblé and Santería). Built on OpenAI Whisper and tuned for the realities of Yoruba speech, the service produces publication-grade transcripts in Latin alphabet with diacritics for tone (à á è é ẹ ò ó ọ ṣ).
Three tones marked by diacritics, and the underdotted ẹ, ọ, ṣ
Yoruba is tonal — high, mid, low — with tones marked by acute and grave accents on vowels, plus underdotted ẹ, ọ and ṣ for distinct sounds. Strip the tone marks or the dots and the transcript is wrong. Whisper preserves the full Yoruba diacritic system.
Standard Yoruba (Oyo basis) and the major regional dialects are supported with full tone-mark and underdot preservation.
What Yoruba transcripts include
Native Latin alphabet with diacritics for tone (à á è é ẹ ò ó ọ ṣ)
Output in Latin alphabet with diacritics for tone (à á è é ẹ ò ó ọ ṣ) with all diacritics, tone marks, special characters and script-specific conventions preserved — never transliteration.
Speaker labels
Diarisation that separates and labels speakers in Yoruba interviews, panels and multi-party meetings.
Timestamps and SRT
Word-level timestamps and SRT subtitle export for Yoruba 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 Yoruba speakers actually use WhisperAI
- Nollywood and Yoruba-language filmYoruba film producers transcribe dialogue for caption files and translation pipelines.
- Nigerian media and broadcastingLagos-based Yoruba radio and TV stations transcribe interviews and broadcasts.
- Yoruba cultural and religious documentationCultural and religious organisations document Yoruba ceremonies, prayers and oral traditions with proper diacritic preservation.
- Yoruba academic and oral historyUniversities transcribe Yoruba qualitative research and oral histories.
How to transcribe Yoruba audio
Upload your Yoruba recording
Drop in MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4 or similar — files up to 5GB. Long-form Yoruba interviews, lectures and meetings work without splitting.
Whisper transcribes the audio
The model recognises Yoruba speech across the dialects above and outputs Latin alphabet with diacritics for tone (à á è é ẹ ò ó ọ ṣ). 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 Yoruba transcription
Yoruba demand comes from Nollywood and Nigerian media, Yoruba cultural and religious organisations, and Yoruba-studies academic work.
Dialects and varieties handled
- Standard Yoruba (Oyo basis)
- Lagosian
- Ekiti
- Ijesha
- Egba
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