Transcribe Telugu audio to text
Telugu audio to text: Telugu sits in the lowest accuracy band, more than 50 % word error rate, on the 99+ language model of AssemblyAI at $0.15 an hour.
Telugu is not a language of our engine: Transcribsi takes 99+ languages. For Telugu, AssemblyAI's Universal-2 model lands in the fair band, more than 50 % word error rate, at $0.15 an hour, and Transcribe.com claims more than 120 languages with Pro at $99.99 a month.
Where Telugu loses accuracy
Telugu has a large literature and a short list of well-measured speech models. Where a number exists for it, the number is bad: more than one word in two wrong on the widest model we could read. That does not make the service useless. It makes the transcript a first draft that somebody has to read against the audio.
Telugu on the services that cover it
- Telugu on AssemblyAI Universal-2
fair tier — more than 50 % word error rate; $0.15 an hour
- Transcribe.com
more than 120 languages and dialects on its home page; Pro $99.99 a month paid yearly
- Telugu on Transcribsi
supported — the engine covers 99+ languages
How to make a Telugu transcript usable
- 1
Take the draft as a draft
More than 50 % word error rate means half the words can be wrong. Treat the output as raw material for an editor, never as a document that can go out as it is.
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Price it by the hour
AssemblyAI charges $0.15 an hour for its 99+ language model. TurboScribe Unlimited is $10 a month paid yearly and $20 a month, with files up to ten hours in one upload.
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Name the language, not the file
Automatic detection needs 15 seconds of audio. Set Telugu by hand and the file lands on the model you chose, instead of on a guess made from the first words.
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Export for the next step
Subtitles, a quote sheet, an archive copy: SRT, CSV and DOCX cover the three usual jobs. A CSV keeps the timecode next to every line of the text.
Tips
Automatic detection needs 15 seconds of audio; short clips fail.
Budget the editing time, not only the minutes of audio.
A CSV keeps the timecode next to every quote.
Check the first minute before the queue starts.
Questions about Telugu transcription
Which services cover Telugu?
AssemblyAI's Universal-2 covers 99+ languages, Transcribe.com claims more than 120 languages and dialects, and TurboScribe advertises 98+. The price of each is in the table, with the date we read it.
Is a Telugu transcript worth paying for?
At more than 50 % word error rate the raw output cannot be published as it is. It saves the typing, not the reading: whoever checks the quotes has to hear the audio anyway.
What does Transcribsi cost?
Free is $0 with 3 files a day and files up to 30 minutes. Pro is $10 a month paid yearly or $20 a month, with no minute limit a month, DOCX export, a REST API and an MCP server.
Why does your page not offer Telugu?
Because our engine covers 99+ languages and nothing else. A service that promises a hundred languages fails on the first recording; ours states the two it takes.
Related pages
- Languages we can transcribeWhich languages our engine takes, with the code of each and whether the language is detected automatically.
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- MP3 to SRTFrom an audio file to timed subtitles.
- Transcribe for journalistsInterviews, quotes and the line between them.
Sources
- AAssemblyAI models reference — language accuracy tiersassemblyai.com · checked 22 October 2026
- TTranscribe.com — languages and pricingtranscribe.com · checked 22 October 2026
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