Transcription · Italian
Italian transcription services
Native Italian transcribers for corporate video, eLearning, legal proceedings and more. Verbatim and clean read transcripts, time-coded and delivered to professional and legal standards. Part of a full Italian language service: transcripts, subtitles, voice over, and translation of any content you need.
About Italian transcription
Find the right Italian transcription for your project
Italian is spoken natively by around 65 million people, principally in Italy and southern Switzerland, with established communities across the broader diaspora. It is a standardised language built on the Tuscan dialect and the literary model of Florence, though regional accents and dialects remain a live feature of everyday speech.
At GoLocalise, we work with professional Italian transcribers who are native speakers and trained for the register your content demands.
We manage every step, from file intake and brief through to time-coding, formatting and final delivery, so the transcript you receive is accurate to the audio and ready for its intended use.
Choose your format
Three ways to transcribe the same recording
The right one depends on what the transcript is for. If you are not sure, tell us the use case and we will recommend it.
Full verbatim
Every wordCaptures every utterance, pause and non-standard pronunciation exactly as spoken, including false starts and overlap.
Best for
Legal proceedings, research interviews, compliance content
Clean read
EditedRemoves filler words, false starts and repeated phrases for readability, while keeping meaning and speaker intent intact.
Best for
Corporate video, interviews for publication, content to be translated
Summarised
Key pointsCondenses the discussion into structured key points rather than a full record of the conversation.
Best for
Executive briefings, legal summaries, research documentation
What's included
What comes with every Italian transcript
Italian, English, or both
A source transcript, an English translation, or the two side by side. The translation is produced from the original audio, not from the transcript alone.
Timecodes
Stamped at the interval you need — per speaker turn, per paragraph or at fixed intervals, matched to your edit or subtitle workflow.
Speaker identification
Every turn attributed, by name where you supply them or by role where you don't — including through overlap.
Proofreading pass
A second native linguist checks the transcript against the audio before it reaches you.
Terminology kept
Legal, medical or technical vocabulary rendered to the convention your sector uses, not paraphrased.
Your format
Plain text, Word, PDF, SRT, VTT or a client-specific template — tell us the next step.
How it works
One project manager, from brief to delivery
A structured workflow, built so accuracy and confidentiality are verified at each stage rather than assumed at the end.
File intake and brief
We review your audio or video, confirm the transcript type (verbatim, clean read, time-coded), and note any terminology, speaker labels or formatting you need.
Transcriber assignment
We match your content to a native Italian transcriber with the right background, whether legal, medical, corporate or media.
Transcription and QA
The transcriber works directly from your files. A second linguist reviews the transcript against the audio for accuracy, speaker identification and consistency.
Delivery
Formatted transcripts in your chosen format, whether plain text, SRT, VTT or a client-specific template, on budget and on time.
For multi-speaker research, hearings or archive projects, we assign a coordinated team and agree milestones up front.
Who we work with
Industries that rely on Italian transcription
In some sectors a documented record is a compliance requirement, in others an accessibility one. These are the briefs we see most.
Legal & compliance
Hearings, depositions and arbitration, transcribed verbatim and formatted to requirement.
Manufacturing & design
Technical briefings, supplier negotiations and training material.
Broadcast & media
Interviews, documentaries and archive footage, with subtitle-ready templates.
Market research
Focus groups and interviews, including sessions with heavy speaker overlap.
Heritage & tourism
Guided material, oral histories and cultural programming.
Academic & research
Lectures, field interviews and research material.
Confidentiality
Who hears your Italian audio
Italian transcription often means legal proceedings, board material or research interviews recorded on the understanding they stay private. So who hears it matters as much as how accurately it is captured.
Your files are uploaded through an encrypted system, handled by a named Italian transcriber under NDA, and never fed into public speech-to-text tools. We will sign your own confidentiality agreement, follow your retention rules, and delete everything on delivery if your policy requires it.
Encrypted upload
No loose files over email.
NDA as standard
Yours or ours, before we start.
No public AI tools
Your audio never trains anything.
Deletion on request
Files removed on delivery if you need it.
Italian specifics
A transcript can read as perfect Italian and still be wrong
Spoken Italian in interviews, legal proceedings and focus groups often carries regional inflection and rapid speaker overlap that automated tools handle poorly. A transcript that reads as clean, grammatical Italian can still be wrong if it has smoothed over what was actually said. That distinction matters most where verbatim accuracy is the deliverable.
It goes further than accent. Several of what people call Italian dialects are classified as separate languages in their own right — Neapolitan and Sicilian each have their own ISO code and their own entry in Ethnologue, and UNESCO lists both as endangered. A transcriber from Milan may genuinely not follow a recording in broad Sicilian, in the same way a Modern Standard Arabic transcriber cannot be handed dialect audio.
So step two of our process is a real decision, not a formality. We match the linguist to what is actually on the recording and to the subject matter — legal, medical, corporate or media. Send us a sample and we will tell you what we are hearing before you commit.
Transcription rates
Professional Italian transcription
Best for clean read transcripts of corporate video, interviews and internal communications.
- Native Italian transcriber
- Verbatim or clean read
- Speaker identification
- Proofreading pass
A complete managed service for legal proceedings, multi-speaker research and longer-form content requiring verbatim, time-coded or translated deliverables.
- Everything in Standard
- Subject-specialist linguist
- Timecodes and speaker IDs
- Italian and English in one pass
Priced by runtime, audio quality, number of speakers and turnaround, and backed by our Price Match Promise. Send us a sample for an exact, no-obligation quote.
Trusted by global brands
We have used GoLocalise on a regular basis for projects in a number of languages. The service we receive is great. The team is always friendly and professional. The voiceovers we receive are of a very high quality and the turnaround is extremely quick. We are very happy to recommend GoLocalise to other businesses.
It was a pleasure to work with David and the team at GoLocalise. David gave me lots of help and advice, guiding me through my first subtitling project. He really knows his stuff! The experience was completely pain-free. I would not hesitate to recommend GoLocalise – outstanding work at a good price.
They're reliable, adaptive and obsessed with quality. And while you can never be 100% guaranteed of perfection, you can be sure GoLocalise will go the extra mile to get it right every time. We've worked with them now for over 5 years and we are truly thankful to have such a strong localisation partner for our business.
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Most common questions
Most corporate and broadcast work suits a clean read transcript, where filler words, false starts and repeated phrases are removed for readability. Legal proceedings, research interviews and compliance content usually require verbatim, where every utterance, pause and non-standard pronunciation is captured exactly as spoken. Your project manager will confirm which approach fits your end use.
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Send us the files and tell us what the transcript is for — we'll come back with an exact, itemised quote.
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