Transcribe Ukrainian Audio to Text — Free, No Upload

For Ukrainian the first requirement is that the transcript is Ukrainian: written with і, ї, є and ґ, with apostrophes where they belong, and not quietly converted into Russian because the two share an alphabet and a detector guessed wrong. This page removes that risk by opening with Ukrainian selected, so the Whisper model transcribes in Ukrainian from the first word.

Lectures, interviews, recorded calls, voice messages and news segments all transcribe well when the speech is clear, with proper names and place names spelled in their Ukrainian forms. Everything runs inside your browser: the model is downloaded once and the audio is processed on your own device, which for many people is the whole point, since a private conversation should not sit on a server anywhere. There is no fee per minute and no account. Plain text is the output, with SRT and VTT files when you need timestamps.

The honest limits: surzhyk and code-switching between Ukrainian and Russian come out as Ukrainian, so Russian phrases may be adapted or mangled, and you should pick whichever language dominates the recording. Background noise, music under a voice and several people talking at once reduce accuracy, as does distance from the microphone. Names, numbers and dates deserve a check against the audio, and a long file is faster on a laptop than on a phone.