Azerbaijani transcription services

It depends entirely on who reads it. The Republic of Azerbaijan uses the Latin alphabet, readopted after independence in 1991 and fully established by the early 2000s. Azerbaijani speakers in northwestern Iran — where most speakers of the language live — use the Perso-Arabic script. Tell us the audience and we will set it. If the material has to serve both, we produce both.

For the audio, largely yes — it is one language and a native speaker follows both. For the written output, the two scripts are genuinely different skills and different keyboards, so we assign accordingly. This is why we ask about the reader before we ask about anything else on an Azerbaijani project.

It is the schwa, and it is the most frequently used vowel in Azerbaijani. It appears in no other Latin alphabet, so fonts, content management systems and export pipelines that were not built with Azerbaijani in mind silently replace it with e or a — which changes words rather than just looking untidy. We preserve the full character set through delivery, and it is worth confirming your own systems carry it before the document goes anywhere.

Yes, and please send them at the briefing stage. Azerbaijani was written in Cyrillic during the Soviet period, so glossaries, reference material and archive documents from that era are in a script nobody uses today. That material is convertible rather than lost, and converting it is considerably faster and safer than having it retyped and re-proofread.

They are both Oghuz Turkic and there is genuine common ground, which is what makes the shortcut tempting. It is not a shortcut we take. Vocabulary, everyday idiom and a good deal of technical terminology diverge, and in transcription the errors land in exactly the places where precision matters — names, numbers, technical terms and legal phrasing. We assign native Azerbaijani transcribers.

Most short projects are delivered within 24 to 48 hours, but the exact turnaround depends on audio length, audio quality, the script required and whether time-coding is needed. Your project manager will confirm the timeline at the start.

Automated coverage of Azerbaijani is thin, and what exists is trained overwhelmingly on the northern, Latin-script standard, so it degrades sharply on Iranian Azerbaijani. The script problem then compounds it: even where the words are recognised, getting the output into the right alphabet with the right characters is a separate job. On legal and technical material the correction pass ends up longer than transcribing natively.

Yes. Files are uploaded through an encrypted system, handled by a named transcriber under NDA, and never fed into public speech-to-text tools. We can sign your own confidentiality agreement, work to your retention rules and delete everything on delivery.

Word, PDF, plain text, Excel or a subtitle-ready file, with timecodes and speaker labels where you need them. Tell us what the transcript is for and we will deliver it in the format the next step requires.