Transcribe German audio to text
Transcribe German audio to text: the services that name German in their price tables, the free plan of each, the price of an hour and of a human subtitle.
German is the European language the meeting services name in their own price tables: Otter lists English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese, and Descript counts 25 languages. Ours takes 99+ languages, 30 minutes per file, no minute limit.
Where a German recording comes from
A German recording is usually a meeting, and a meeting is full of names. The market names German in its price tables rather than in a footnote, and that tells you where the engine was tested. Everything below that — a dialect, Austrian German, a handover on a factory floor — is a different question, and only a test on your own audio answers it.
Our limits, and the market for German
- Our own coverage
99+ languages — we do not transcribe German, and we do not count it in our language list
- Otter
English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese in the plan table; free plan: 300 minutes a month
- Descript
25 languages, German among them; paid plan from $16 a month paid yearly
- Sonix
54+ languages, a German interface; free plan: 30 minutes on a new account, Core $25 a month for 5 hours, an extra hour $10
- tl;dv
30+ transcription languages, the product published in 11 languages including de; free plan: unlimited transcription
- Transcribe.com
120+ languages and dialects, German among them; free plan: a 30-minute trial
- Rev
manual global subtitles in German, $15.99 a minute, the same price as Turkish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Russian
How to get a German transcript
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Read the price table, not the slogan
Otter writes English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Chinese in its plan comparison. Descript lists 25 languages, tl;dv keeps a German interface among eleven, and Sonix publishes 54+.
- 2
Send the file without a converter
An mp3, a wav or an m4a goes up as it is. Our own engine reads 99+ languages, 30 minutes per file on the free plan, no minute limit, and the limits do not change between the free plan and the paid one.
- 3
Look for the hard words
A surname, a product code, a street in Munich. A German transcript that spells the client wrong is a transcript that has to be read twice, and the second reading costs more than the first.
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Put the result where the work is
TXT for a document, SRT or VTT for a video, CSV for a spreadsheet. Our six export formats are the same on every plan, except DOCX, which sits on Pro.
Tips
A price table that names German beats a homepage that says 100 languages.
Check the surnames in the first minute.
Keep the original file; an export does not fix the spelling.
A human subtitle minute is priced apart from a machine one.
Questions this page answers
Which services transcribe German?
Otter names German in its pricing table, Descript counts 25 languages, Sonix 54+, tl;dv publishes a German interface, and Transcribe.com lists German among 120+ languages and dialects.
How much does a German transcript cost?
Sonix charges $25 a month for 5 hours, $50 for 20 hours and $80 for 40, and an extra hour costs $10. Our own Pro plan is $10 a month paid yearly, for 99+ languages.
Is there a free German transcription?
Sonix gives 30 minutes to a new account, Otter 300 minutes a month, Notta two hours a month, and tl;dv publishes unlimited transcription on its free plan. All read on 22 October 2026.
What do German subtitles by hand cost?
Rev sells manual global subtitles in German at $15.99 a minute, the same price as Turkish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Russian. That is the human price, and it is not a subscription.
Related pages
- Languages we can transcribeWhich languages our engine takes, with the code of each and whether the language is detected automatically.
- Transcribe English audio to textThe one non-Russian language our engine reads.
- Transcribe a meeting to textThe recording a German meeting usually arrives as.
- Transcribe French audio to textThe same market, another language of the European Union.
Sources
- OOtter — pricingotter.ai · checked 22 October 2026
- DDescript — pricingdescript.com · checked 22 October 2026
- SSonix — pricingsonix.ai · checked 22 October 2026
- Ttl;dv — pricingtldv.io · checked 22 October 2026
- TTranscribe.com — pricingtranscribe.com · checked 22 October 2026
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