How To Transcribe Tamil: Unlocking the Power of Language for Businesses and Researchers
Tamil is among the most commonly spoken languages of the world with over 78 million speakers in a variety of countries, including India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and Singapore. It is an ancient language, with some literary records dating back to the 3rd century BCE. As a result, Tamil has a rich cultural history and many unique words and phrases that make it attractive to linguists and researchers alike.
For businesses and researchers, transcribing audio and video in Tamil is key to unlocking the potential of the language. With the right transcription tools, it is possible to accurately and quickly translate Tamil into written text for easy analysis. Speak AI, for instance, is a speech recognition and natural language platform with over 40,000 users that helps businesses and researchers transcribe audio and video from Tamil in no time.
The Benefits of Transcription and Transcribing Audio and Video in Tamil
Transcription of audio and video content in Tamil offers many benefits for businesses and researchers. First, it allows for easy analysis of the content. Transcribing audio and video from Tamil into written text makes it easier to store, categorize, and analyze the content. This can be helpful for businesses to gain insights into customer sentiment and preferences or for researchers to gain a better understanding of a language.
Additionally, transcription in Tamil can help businesses and researchers save time and money. With transcription tools like Speak AI, complex audio and video content can be transcribed accurately and quickly at a fraction of the cost and time it would take to manually transcribe the content.
How to Transcribe Tamil with Speak AI
Speak AI provides a powerful speech recognition and natural language platform that makes it easy to transcribe audio and video in Tamil. It can be used by researchers and businesses alike to quickly and accurately transcribe audio and video content from Tamil into written text.
Here’s how to get started with transcription in Tamil on Speak AI:
Step 1: Upload Your Content
The first step is to upload your audio or video content to the Speak AI platform. You can upload files in a variety of formats, including MP3, MP4, AVI, and WAV.
Step 2: Select Tamil as the Language
Once your content is uploaded, you can select Tamil as the language you want to transcribe. Speak AI supports transcription in over 40 languages, including Tamil.
Step 3: Transcribe Your Content
Speak AI’s powerful speech recognition and natural language platform will then transcribe your content accurately and quickly. You can review the transcribed text and make any necessary edits.
Step 4: Export Your Transcribed Content
Finally, you can export your transcribed content as a text file for easy analysis and storage.
Conclusion
Transcribing audio and video in Tamil is essential for businesses and researchers who want to make the most of the language. With the right transcription tools, such as Speak AI, it is possible to accurately and quickly translate Tamil into written text for easy analysis. Speak AI’s powerful speech recognition and natural language platform makes it easy to transcribe audio and video in Tamil at a fraction of the cost and time it would take to manually transcribe the content. Sign up to Speak AI today to unlock the power of language and take your business or research to the next level.
How To Transcribe Tamil Using Speak
Step 1: Create a Speak Account
To start your Tamil transcription, you first need to create a Speak account. No worries, this is super easy to do!
Our team is happy to give you a 7-day trial with 30 minutes of free Tamil audio and video transcription included.
To sign up for Speak and start your Tamil transcription, visit the Speak app register page here.
Step 2: Upload your Tamil file(s) for Transcription
We typically recommend MP4s for video or MP3s for audio.
However, we accept a range of audio and video file types. Once you upload your file all you have to do is select "Tamil" from the language dropdown menu to automatically transcribe in Tamil.
You can upload your Tamil file for transcription in several ways using Speak:
Accepted Tamil Audio File Types
- Tamil MP3
- Tamil M4A
- Tamil WAV
- Tamil OGG
- Tamil WEBM
- Tamil M4P
Accepted Tamil Video File Types
- Tamil MP4
- Tamil M4V
- Tamil WMV
- Tamil AVI
- Tamil MOV
- Tamil FLV
Publicly Available Tamil URLs
You can also upload media to Speak through a publicly available URL.
As long as the file type extension is available at the end of the URL you will have no problem importing your recording for automatic transcription and analysis.
Tamil YouTube URLs
Speak is compatible with YouTube videos. All you have to do is copy the URL of the YouTube video (for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKfcLcHeivc).
Speak will automatically find the file, calculate the length, and import the video.
Please make sure you use the full link and not the shortened YouTube snippet. Additionally, make sure you remove the channel name from the URL.
Speak Integrations
As mentioned, Speak also contains a range of integrations for Zoom, Zapier, Vimeo and more that will help you automatically transcribe your media.
This library of integrations continues to grow! Have a request? Feel encouraged to send us a message.
Step 3: Calculate and pay the total automatically
Once you have your Tamil audio or video file ready and load it into Speak, it will automatically calculate the total cost (you get 30 minutes free in the trial - take advantage of it!).
You can pay by subscribing to a personalized plan using our real-time calculator with included minutes.
You can also add a balance or pay for uploads without a plan using your credit card.
Step 4: Wait for Speak to transcribe your Tamil audio or Tamil video
Our automated transcription software will prepare your transcript in as little as a few minutes. Generally, Speak takes about half the audio or video length to produce the transcript and insights.
Once completed, you will get an email notification that your transcript is complete. That email will contain a link back to the file so you can access the interactive media player with the transcript, analysis, and export formats ready for you.
Step 5: View and edit your automated transcript
Want to tackle the transcript edits yourself? All good! Once you receive your automated transcript you have the option to edit your transcript at any time.
Easily update speaker names, find and replace, and get your automatic transcript up to full accuracy with our intuitive transcript editing system.
Step 6: Export your transcript and share interactive media players
You can export your transcript in PDF, Word, TXT, HTML and even more advanced formats like CSV or JSON depending on your plan.
A more effective way of sharing transcripts is through a shareable media library that includes the media file, AI insights and an interactive transcript.
There is so much more that you can do with Speak to enrich the value of your media and transcripts.
Never hesitate to send us a message on live chat - we are always here to help!
We talked about Tamil transcription here, but you may be interested in how to transcribe in other languages instantly and easily with Speak's intuitive transcription and natural language processing software. We’ve shared resources below on all the languages Speak can help you transcribe!
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How Much Does It Cost To Transcribe Tamil?
Speak offers highly competitive pricing for Tamil transcription compared to other transcription solutions. For a starting user, Speak offers automated Tamil transcription for only $0.06 USD per minute. That is only $3.6 USD per hour!
We also scale our pricing based on media volume and can offer even bigger discounts to large customers. So, if you have over 100 hours of Tamil transcription per month please contact us through live chat and we will set you up with a customized price per minute to make Tamil transcription even more affordable!
You can learn more about how to transcribe Tamil with Speak and the relevant pricing on the website pricing page and the in-app pricing page.
What Can You Transcribe In Tamil?
- Transcribe Tamil interviews
- Transcribe Tamil videos
- Transcribe Tamil audio
- Transcribe Tamil earnings calls
- Transcribe Tamil focus groups
- Transcribe Tamil meetings
- Transcribe Tamil phone calls
- Transcribe Tamil YouTube videos
- Transcribe Tamil Vimeo videos
- Transcribe Tamil Zoom recordings
- Transcribe Tamil Google Meet recordings
- Transcribe Microsoft Teams recordings
- Transcribe Tamil podcasts
And so much more!
How To Export Tamil Transcripts
With Speak, you can easily export Tamil transcriptions to many formats.
Below is a list of options for exporting your Tamil transcripts in Speak:
- Export Tamil transcripts to Word Docs
- Export Tamil transcripts to PDFs
- Export Tamil transcripts to CSVs
- Export Tamil transcripts to TXT files
- Export Tamil transcripts to HTML
- Export Tamil transcripts to SRTs
- Export Tamil transcripts to VTTs
- Export Tamil transcripts to JSON
How To Generate Tamil Captions
If you are looking to subtitle in Tamil or caption in Tamil, Speak is a powerful solution. Speak’s automatic transcription software automatically generated Tamil transcripts with timestamps that enable Speak to quickly create SRT and VTT files necessary for Tamil captions and Tamil subtitles.
What Other Languages Can Speak Transcribe?
Speak already has users from over 90 countries and we continuously get requests to transcribe and analyze in different languages.
So, we continuously add more languages to Speak! Here are just some of the growing list of languages that Speak offers:
- Arabic (United Arab Emirates)
- Arabic Egypt
- Arabic (Iraq)
- Arabic (Israel)
- Arabic (Jordan)
- Arabic (Kuwait)
- Arabic (Lebanon)
- Arabic Modern Standard (Bahrain)
- Arabic (Oman)
- Arabic (Palestinian Authority)
- Arabic (Qatar)
- Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
- Arabic (Syrian Arab Republic)
- Arabic (U.A.E.)
- Armenian
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Chinese (Cantonese, Traditional)
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English (Australia)
- English (British)
- English (United Kingdom)
- English (United States)
- Estonian
- Farsi
- Finnish
- French
- French (Canada)
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Korean
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malay
- Malayalam
- Norwegian
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Portuguese (Brazilian)
- Portuguese (Portugal)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Spanish (Mexico)
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
There are now many more added!
You can see the entire list of languages Speak supports through both the software and APIs.
