Free Afrikaans Speech to Text Transcription

Free Afrikaans speech to text using our advanced AI transcription tool, Scribe. Transcribe Afrikaans voice, audio, and speech with industry-leading accuracy—Scribe outperforms Google Gemini and OpenAI Whisper, delivering a word error rate of just 3.1% on the FLEURS benchmark and 5.5% on Common Voice. Get accurate Afrikaans transcriptions for films, podcasts, business meetings, medical dictation, and more.

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Every word, perfectly captured

Scribe listens to every nuance, capturing each Afrikaans word with unmatched precision. Delivering audio transcription in 99 languages—with character-level timestamps, speaker diarization, and audio-event tagging—it returns structured results for seamless integration

Afrikaans Transcription Benchmark

ModelFLEURS
Scribe v1
17.0% WER
Deepgram Nova 2
99.5% WER
Gemini Flash 2
13.3% WER
Whisper Large v3
41.7% WER

Powerful Afrikaans Audio to Text features for your app

Transform your Afrikaans audio into flawless text with Scribe, the world's most advanced ASR (automatic speech recognition) model with the simplest speech to text API integration

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Industry-leading accuracy

Achieve precision like never before—Scribe delivers the industry's lowest word error rate for perfectly accurate Afrikaans transcription

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Smart speaker diarization

In any conversation, even the busiest ones, Scribe intuitively distinguishes and labels every speaker for clear, organized transcripts

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Precise word-level timestamps

Capture the exact moment each word is spoken. Scribe's detailed timestamps enable seamless subtitle syncing and interactive audio experiences

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Dynamic audio tagging

From laughter to footsteps, Scribe's transcription model tags every sound event, enriching your Afrikaans transcripts with the full context of your audio

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Global language support

Break language barriers with support for Afrikaans and 98 other languages—Scribe unlocks AI transcription capabilities for languages previously out of reach

Language Overview

Afrikaans Language Information

Speakers: 14 million Accents: Cape Afrikaans (Standard), Orange River, Eastern Cape Official language in: South Africa and Namibia Spoken in: South Africa, Namibia, and parts of Botswana and Zimbabwe Evolved from Dutch colonial dialects, it features simplified grammar compared to Dutch. The youngest Germanic language, with vocabulary influences from Malay, Portuguese, and Bantu languages.

Developers

Integrate ElevenLabs Scribe

Seamlessly integrate the world's most accurate speech to text model for Afrikaans, into your application. Get started with our developer-friendly examples that showcase features like diarization, character-level timestamps, and audio-event tagging for flawless transcriptions

Transcribe Afrikaans audio, voice, and speech with unmatched precision

Explore the key features behind the world’s most accurate Afrikaans transcription engine.

  • Accurate Speech to Text

    Afrikaans Audio to Text

    Transcribe Afrikaans audio with unmatched accuracy using ElevenLabs’ industry-leading speech-to-text model. Whether you're converting long-form recordings, meetings, or podcasts into text, Scribe captures every word and sound event—including non-verbal cues like laughter or ambient noise. The transcription includes speaker diarization and character-level timestamps, helping you structure conversations cleanly. With robust support for 99 languages, Scribe delivers high-quality Afrikaans audio transcription at scale.

  • Advanced Speech to Text

    Afrikaans Voice to Text

    Transcribe spoken Afrikaans into clean, structured text with Scribe—our advanced voice recognition and transcription engine. Ideal for voice memos, dictation, or customer support calls, Scribe processes speech in real time and outputs highly accurate transcripts. It automatically distinguishes between speakers and inserts precise timestamps, making the final transcription easy to follow and ready for subtitle or search indexing. ElevenLabs ensures that your Afrikaans voice transcription is both reliable and production-ready.

  • Industry Leading

    Afrikaans Speech to Text

    ElevenLabs delivers fast, accurate Afrikaans speech transcription powered by AI. Scribe listens to every detail—intonation, pauses, and background sounds—to transcribe natural Afrikaans speech with human-like precision. Whether you’re working with live audio or pre-recorded media, our model returns structured transcripts complete with speaker labels and exact word-level timing. Scribe sets the new standard for Afrikaans speech-to-text transcription across industries.

Frequently asked questions

Excellent Accuracy (≤ 5% Word Error Rate - WER)
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Malay, Malayalam, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

High Accuracy (>5% to ≤10% WER)
Bengali, Belarusian, Bosnian, Cantonese, Estonian, Filipino, Gujarati, Hungarian, Kazakh, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Persian, Slovenian, Tamil, Telugu

Good (>10% to ≤25% WER)
Afrikaans, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Burmese, Cebuano, Croatian, Georgian, Hausa, Hebrew, Icelandic, Javanese, Kabuverdianu, Korean, Kyrgyz, Lingala, Maltese, Mongolian, Māori, Occitan, Punjabi, Sindhi, Swahili, Tajik, Thai, Urdu, Uzbek, Welsh

Moderate (>25% to ≤50% WER)
Amharic, Chichewa, Fulah, Ganda, Igbo, Irish, Khmer, Kurdish, Lao, Luxembourgish, Luo, Northern Sotho, Pashto, Shona, Somali, Umbundu, Wolof, Xhosa, Zulu

Speech to text is a technology that transcribes spoken Afrikaans into written text using automatic speech recognition (ASR). It processes audio signals, identifies speech patterns, and transcribes them into text with high accuracy. ElevenLabs' AI-powered speech to text software is designed to transcribe audio and video content with human-like precision, making it ideal for voice-to-text conversion, audio transcription, and real-time speech recognition. speech to text technology is used in: ✔ Audio-to-text transcription for podcasts, meetings, and interviews. ✔ Captions and subtitles in video content. ✔ Voice-to-text software for hands-free typing and accessibility tools. ElevenLabs ASR offers fast, reliable, and highly accurate speech to text conversion for multiple languages and accents.

ElevenLabs provides video transcription to transcribe spoken Afrikaans dialogue into text format, making it easy to create subtitles, captions, and searchable transcripts. Steps to transcribe video to text: 1. Upload your video file to ElevenLabs ASR 2. Speech recognition technology processes the audio 3. A transcript is generated automatically, with timestamps 4. Download the text file or export subtitles for editing. This AI-powered video transcription model helps content creators, businesses, and educators quickly transcribe video speech into accurate text for accessibility and content repurposing.

Scribe currently works well for use-cases where the input audio is available upfront. A low-latency, real-time version will be released soon.

$0.40 per hour of transcribed audio, falling well below this at scale with Enterprise plans.
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