Free Lingala Speech to Text Transcription
Free Lingala speech to text using our advanced AI transcription tool, Scribe. Transcribe Lingala 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 Lingala transcriptions for films, podcasts, business meetings, medical dictation, and more.
Every word, perfectly captured
Scribe listens to every nuance, capturing each Lingala 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
Lingala Transcription Benchmark
| Model | FLEURS |
|---|---|
Scribe v1 | 13.9% WER |
Deepgram Nova 2 | 100.0% WER |
Gemini Flash 2 | 24.7% WER |
Whisper Large v3 | 69.3% WER |
Powerful Lingala Audio to Text features for your app
Transform your Lingala audio into flawless text with Scribe, the world's most advanced ASR (automatic speech recognition) model with the simplest speech to text API integration
Industry-leading accuracy
Achieve precision like never before—Scribe delivers the industry's lowest word error rate for perfectly accurate Lingala transcription
Smart speaker diarization
In any conversation, even the busiest ones, Scribe intuitively distinguishes and labels every speaker for clear, organized transcripts
Precise word-level timestamps
Capture the exact moment each word is spoken. Scribe's detailed timestamps enable seamless subtitle syncing and interactive audio experiences
Dynamic audio tagging
From laughter to footsteps, Scribe's transcription model tags every sound event, enriching your Lingala transcripts with the full context of your audio
Global language support
Break language barriers with support for Lingala and 98 other languages—Scribe unlocks AI transcription capabilities for languages previously out of reach
Language Overview
Lingala Language Information
Speakers: 40 million Accents: Kinshasa (Standard), Brazzaville, Bangala Official language in: Democratic Republic of the Congo and Republic of the Congo Spoken in: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, parts of Angola and Central African Republic A Bantu language that developed as a lingua franca. Features a simplified noun class system compared to other Bantu languages and is prominent in Central African music.
Developers
Integrate ElevenLabs Scribe
Seamlessly integrate the world's most accurate speech to text model for Lingala, 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
AI Speech to Text transcription in 99 languages
Our AI speech to text transcription supports 99 languages, just select the language and upload your audio file.
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