Spanish audio to text
Drop a Spanish recording in and get a transcript in Spanish — produced on your own device, with no upload and no account.
Spanish is one of the languages Whisper handles best outside English, so results on clear speech are usually strong.
Language and translation need the Multilingual model.
Drop an audio or video file
or , paste with Ctrl + V, or
- MP3
- MP4
- WAV
- M4A
- MOV
- WEBM
- OGG
- FLAC
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The file is read by this page and never uploaded — no account, no size limit but your own RAM.
Preset: multilingual model, language set to Spanish.
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Click a line to jump the audio there. Click the text to fix a word — your edits go into every download.
How it works
- Open this page — the tool is already set up for “Spanish to text”.
- Drop the file in, browse for it, or paste it with Ctrl+V.
- The model runs on your own device; the transcript appears as it goes.
- Correct anything misheard, then download text, subtitles or notes.
Spanish output, or English
By default the transcript comes back in Spanish — the same words that were spoken, written down. If you want English instead, switch the output setting to translate and the model produces English text directly from the Spanish speech, in one pass. It does not go via a Spanish transcript, and it only ever translates into English; the reverse direction is not something Whisper does.
The translation is serviceable rather than literary. It is reliably good enough to understand what was said and decide whether you need a professional translation, and it is not good enough to publish as a translation.
Regional variation
Whisper was trained on Spanish from many regions, and it generally copes with Peninsular, Mexican, Rioplatense and Caribbean varieties without being told which. What it does not do is normalise between them — it writes what it hears, so regional vocabulary comes out as spoken. That is usually what you want.
Where it struggles is the same place every model struggles: fast overlapping speech, heavy regional slang and code-switching mid-sentence between Spanish and English, which is common in US Spanish and tends to produce a transcript that commits to one language and mangles the other.
Accents, punctuation and names
Accented characters and inverted question marks are produced correctly — the model writes ordinary orthographic Spanish, including ¿ and ¡ where the phrasing calls for them. Punctuation is predicted from the speech, so natural pauses give better results than deliberate dictation.
Proper nouns are the usual weak point. Names of people and places, especially less common ones, will need correcting; they repeat, so fixing the first occurrence and using the search box handles the rest quickly.
Things that save a re-run
- Leave language detection on for a clip that is entirely in Spanish; set it explicitly for short clips or code-switching.
- Switch the output to translate if you need English — it is one pass, not two.
- Code-switching between Spanish and English is the hardest case; expect to correct those passages.
Read the transcript against the audio before you rely on it. Every speech model — this one and the paid cloud ones — mishears names, numbers and crosstalk, and it does so confidently. The player and editor here exist so that check takes minutes rather than an afternoon.
Frequently asked questions
Does it write Spanish, or translate it?
Whichever you choose. By default it transcribes in Spanish. Setting the output to translate produces English text directly from the Spanish speech. Whisper translates only into English — it cannot go from English into Spanish.
Which Spanish varieties does it handle?
It was trained on Spanish from many regions and generally handles Peninsular, Mexican, Rioplatense and Caribbean speech without being told which. It transcribes what was actually said rather than normalising to one standard.
Are accents and ¿ ¡ written correctly?
Yes. The model produces normal orthographic Spanish, including accented characters and inverted punctuation, predicted from the phrasing of the speech.
Is the audio uploaded for language detection?
No. Detection and transcription both happen in the multilingual model running in your browser. Nothing is transmitted at any stage.