Dictate dental procedure notes hands-free in Chinese
Type with your voice in any app — up to 4× faster than typing. Built for dentists who need accurate, hands-free text input across 60+ languages. Works with Chinese and 60+ other languages.
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Say it once, it is written in Chinese
Typing is slow. Speaking is natural. Soniox App turns your voice into finished text as you speak. Get seamless Chinese transcriptions today.
Easier on your body
Reduce strain from extended Chinese typing sessions. Voice Typing lets you write comfortably for longer.
Professional vocabulary
Soniox App handles specialized Chinese terminology and professional language with accuracy.
Dictate emails and messages
Compose Chinese emails, chat messages, and documents by speaking naturally. Your words become polished text.
Boost productivity
Get more Chinese text written in less time. Voice Typing removes the bottleneck between thinking and having finished text.
Voice input that works everywhere in Chinese
Voice Typing works system-wide across all apps — no integrations or plugins needed. Handles Chinese across varieties like Mandarin and Cantonese.
Desktop and mobile
Chinese Voice Typing works system-wide on desktop and mobile — no plugins or integrations required.
60+ languages
Dictate in Chinese and 60+ other languages with seamless mid-sentence language switching.
Works in any text field
Dictate Chinese into any app or text field — emails, documents, messages, search bars, and more.
Natural speech input
Speak Chinese the way you normally talk. Soniox App turns natural speech into clean, punctuated text.
Chinese at a glance
Key facts about Chinese.
native name
speakers worldwide
countries where spoken
Chinese is spoken in China, Taiwan, and Singapore. Soniox App is trained on real-world Chinese speech from multiple regions and accents.
Chinese transcription accuracy
Soniox App is powered by next-gen speech AI model developed inhouse by Soniox. The table below shows how Soniox AI performs on Chinese transcription compared to 7 other providers.
| Provider | WER (Chinese) | Accuracy |
|---|---|---|
| Soniox#1 | 6.6% | 93.4% |
| Azure | 10.1% | 89.9% |
| Speechmatics | 14.2% | 85.8% |
| AWS | 16.8% | 83.2% |
| OpenAI | 18% | 82.0% |
| AssemblyAI | 19.9% | 80.1% |
| 54.1% | 45.9% | |
| Deepgram | 94.4% | 5.6% |
Word error rate (WER) measures how many words a speech-to-text engine gets wrong. Lower is better.
Soniox outperforms Azure, Speechmatics, AWS, OpenAI, AssemblyAI, Google, and Deepgram on Chinese transcription accuracy.
Soniox App works with Chinese and 60+ more languages
Soniox App transcribes and translates in Chinese and over 60 other languages with professional-grade accuracy.
Soniox App: The all-in-one AI speech toolkit
Smart Scribe, Translator, and Voice Typing cover three ways people work with speech.
One app. Everything you do with voice in Chinese.
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Transcribe conversations in real time with Soniox.
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Learn everything Soniox can do
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Built for any use case
From clinical documentation to creative workflows, Soniox App is built for the situations where accurate transcription and translation matter most.
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Hearing accessibility
Real-time captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing users in any setting.
Travel translator
Communicate across language barriers with real-time spoken translation.
Voice notes
Capture ideas and thoughts hands-free and turn them into searchable text.
Private by default
Soniox never stores your recordings and never uses your audio to train models. Everything is processed securely in real-time, then gone.
Chinese language trivia
你好 - that's how you say hello in Chinese.
History and background
- history
Chinese characters are one of the oldest continuously used writing systems, with over 3,000 years of history.
- history
Simplified Chinese characters were introduced by the People's Republic of China in the 1950s and 1960s to promote literacy.
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Mandarin Chinese is the most spoken language in the world by number of native speakers.
Distinctive features
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Chinese is a tonal language — Mandarin has four tones, and the same syllable can have different meanings depending on tone.
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The writing system is logographic: each character represents a morpheme rather than a sound.
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Chinese has no verb conjugation, no grammatical gender, and no noun declension — grammar is conveyed through word order and particles.