moderate tier — 25–50 % word error rate
Tamil audio
Transcribe Tamil audio to text
Tamil audio to text: AssemblyAI rates Tamil at 25–50 % word error rate on its 99+ language model, TurboScribe sells 98+ languages from $10 a month.
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In short
Transcribsi does not handle Tamil: the engine covers 99+ languages only. For a Tamil file, AssemblyAI's Universal-2 model places Tamil in the moderate band, 25–50 % word error rate, at $0.15 an hour, and TurboScribe sells 98+ languages with Unlimited at $10 a month paid yearly.
The case
Why Tamil needs a second pass
Tamil runs on its own script, and a general speech model meets sounds it rarely met in training. The published band for Tamil sits in the middle of the scale, so a transcript is a draft: names, figures and borrowed English words break first. Read the first minute against the audio before a word of it reaches an editor.
What a Tamil transcript costs and how clean it is
inside the advertised 98+ languages; Unlimited $10 a month paid yearly
supported — the engine covers 99+ languages
How to get a usable Tamil transcript
- 1
Choose a model that hears Tamil
Universal-2 covers 99+ languages and puts Tamil in the moderate band at 25–50 % word error rate. TurboScribe and Transkriptor cover it inside their 98+ and 100+ language lists.
- 2
Name the language yourself
Automatic detection on AssemblyAI needs 15 seconds of audio before it answers. On a short clip it never answers, and a guess that lands on the wrong model costs the whole file.
- 3
Check the first minute
Play the first minute against the transcript. At 25–50 % word error rate the names of people and the numbers in a lecture are what a listener will stumble over.
- 4
Take the transcript to work
Subtitles for a video, a sheet of quotes for the report, a document for the archive: SRT, CSV and DOCX are the three formats worth asking for by name.
Tips
Set the language by hand on clips under 15 seconds.
Names and figures are the first things to correct.
Ask for CSV when the quotes have to reach a spreadsheet.
Price the reading of the draft, not only the transcription.
Questions about Tamil transcription
Which services transcribe Tamil today?
AssemblyAI's Universal-2 covers 99+ languages, TurboScribe advertises 98+ and Transkriptor claims 100+. The band and the price of each are in the table, with the source and the date we read it.
How accurate is a Tamil transcript?
AssemblyAI puts Tamil in the moderate band, 25–50 % word error rate. The good band starts at 25 % and below, the fair band is everything above 50 %, and there a proofreading pass is unavoidable.
What does Transcribsi cost?
The free plan is $0 with 3 files a day and files up to 30 minutes. Pro is $10 a month paid yearly, or $20 a month, and gives no minute limit of audio a month. One file is up to 30 minutes.
Can your service take my Tamil file?
No. Our engine covers 99+ languages, and a Tamil recording sent to it would come back wrong. Send Tamil to one of the services above, and send 99+ languages to ours.
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 language our engine does handle, with timecodes and speakers.
- Transcribe a podcast episode to textLong speech with more than one voice.
- Free audio to text toolsWhat the free plan of each service gives.
Sources
- AAssemblyAI models reference — language accuracy tiersassemblyai.com · checked 22 October 2026
- TTurboScribe pricing — languages and plansturboscribe.ai · checked 22 October 2026
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