Live captions for lectures in another language in Chinese
Soniox App transcribes and summarizes conversations in real time and is built for language students who need accurate records without manual note-taking. Speaker labels, action items, and searchable transcripts across 60+ languages. Works with Chinese and 60+ other languages.
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Every detail, captured automatically in Chinese
Conversations move fast and details slip through the cracks. Soniox App makes sure nothing gets lost. Get seamless Chinese transcriptions today.
Notes ready when you are
Automatic summaries with key points, decisions, and action items are generated from every Chinese conversation.
Find anything said
Every transcript is searchable. Look up a Chinese word or phrase and find the exact moment it was spoken.
Know who said what
Speaker labels identify each Chinese-speaking participant automatically, making transcripts easy to follow.
Hours saved per week
Stop spending time writing and cleaning up Chinese notes. Smart Scribe does it in real time while you talk.
Built for real conversations in Chinese
Smart Scribe handles the complexity of real speech so you can focus on the conversation. Handles Chinese across varieties like Mandarin and Cantonese.
Automatic summaries
Key points, decisions, and action items are extracted automatically from Chinese sessions.
Built for long sessions
Smart Scribe handles extended Chinese meetings, interviews, and lectures without losing context or accuracy.
One tap to start
Tap once to begin recording Chinese. Smart Scribe handles transcription, speakers, and summaries automatically.
Context-aware accuracy
Smart Scribe understands Chinese professional vocabulary and context, producing transcripts that need minimal editing.
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.
Meeting transcription
Capture every decision and action item from meetings automatically.
Lecture transcription
Record complete lecture transcripts for study and accessibility.
Medical dictation
Document clinical encounters hands-free with professional accuracy.
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.
- history
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.