Vietnamese transcription services

Vietnamese writes a space after every syllable, but plenty of everyday words run two or three syllables long — quốc kỳ, national flag, is one word made of two spaced syllables. A transcript that just follows the spaces on the page hasn't actually been segmented into words, and anything built on it afterwards, a glossary match, a search index, a subtitle line break, ends up working from noise rather than sense.

It separates syllables with spaces, which is not the same thing. A multi-syllable compound is written with a space between each of its syllables exactly the way a single-syllable word would be, so the punctuation on the page cannot tell a reader, or a machine, where one word ends and the next begins. That call comes from meaning, not from spacing.

Not reliably. Vietnamese language-processing researchers have spent years training statistical and neural models specifically for word segmentation, because there is no shortcut from spacing alone, and recent academic work even questions whether the usual syllable-based approach is the right model at all. We use native linguists rather than a segmentation model, and check the result against the audio.

Both depend on knowing where one word ends and the next begins. A translator matching a term to a glossary, or a subtitler deciding where a line can break, needs the transcript segmented correctly the first time, not reinterpreted downstream. We agree the segmentation convention with your project manager at the brief, so it stays consistent all the way to delivery.

There is no flat rate, because no two files take the same work. Runtime, recording quality, how many people are talking, your deadline and whether you also need an English version all move the figure. Dense compound vocabulary in legal or technical material takes more editorial time to segment correctly than a straightforward interview. Every quote carries our Price Match Promise.

Upload is encrypted, the file goes to one named Vietnamese transcriber who has signed an NDA, and nothing is put through public speech-to-text services at any point. If you have your own confidentiality agreement we sign it, if you have retention rules we work to them, and if your policy says the audio goes once the transcript is approved, we delete it.

It's normal work. Phone audio, site noise, focus groups and meetings where three people speak at once all get transcribed. What difficult audio changes is time, and occasionally certainty about a word boundary or a name. We listen to a sample first and tell you straight what we expect to be able to capture, rather than handing you a file peppered with guesses.

In whatever the next step needs: plain text, Word, PDF, SRT, VTT or your own template, with timecodes and speaker labels set the way you want them. Vietnamese text is delivered in Unicode so every diacritic displays correctly wherever it lands. Tell us what happens to the transcript after we send it and we format it for that, not for us.