Dictate legal briefs and memos by voice in Latvian
Type with your voice in any app — up to 4× faster than typing. Built for lawyers who need accurate, hands-free text input across 60+ languages. Works with Latvian and 60+ other languages.
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Say it once, it is written in Latvian
Typing is slow. Speaking is natural. Soniox App turns your voice into finished text as you speak. Get seamless Latvian transcriptions today.
Hands-free input
Keep your hands free while composing Latvian text. Ideal for multitasking or when typing is inconvenient.
Professional vocabulary
Soniox App handles specialized Latvian terminology and professional language with accuracy.
Works in any app
Latvian Voice Typing works system-wide across all apps and text fields — no integrations or plugins needed.
Long-form writing
Write Latvian reports, articles, and documentation at the speed of thought. Voice Typing keeps up with natural speech.
Voice input that works everywhere in Latvian
Voice Typing works system-wide across all apps — no integrations or plugins needed. Handles Latvian across varieties like Central Latvian and Latgalian.
Natural speech input
Speak Latvian the way you normally talk. Soniox App turns natural speech into clean, punctuated text.
60+ languages
Dictate in Latvian and 60+ other languages with seamless mid-sentence language switching.
Desktop and mobile
Latvian Voice Typing works system-wide on desktop and mobile — no plugins or integrations required.
Smart punctuation
Soniox App adds Latvian punctuation, capitalization, and formatting automatically as you speak.
Latvian at a glance
Key facts about Latvian.
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Latvian 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 Latvian transcription compared to 8 other providers.
| Provider | WER (Latvian) | Accuracy |
|---|---|---|
| Soniox#1 | 10.1% | 89.9% |
| 13.9% | 86.1% | |
| Speechmatics | 14.2% | 85.8% |
| ElevenLabs | 15% | 85.0% |
| Azure | 16.2% | 83.8% |
| AWS | 17.2% | 82.8% |
| OpenAI | 25.9% | 74.1% |
| Deepgram | 53.7% | 46.3% |
| AssemblyAI | 60.7% | 39.3% |
Word error rate (WER) measures how many words a speech-to-text engine gets wrong. Lower is better.
Soniox outperforms Google, Speechmatics, ElevenLabs, Azure, AWS, OpenAI, Deepgram, and AssemblyAI on Latvian transcription accuracy.
Soniox App works with Latvian and 60+ more languages
Soniox App transcribes and translates in Latvian 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 Latvian.
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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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Medical dictation
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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.
Latvian language trivia
Sveiki - that's how you say hello in Latvian.
History and background
- history
Latvian is one of only two surviving Baltic languages, along with Lithuanian.
- history
The first known Latvian text is a translation of the Lord's Prayer from 1530.
- history
Latvian became the sole official language of Latvia after independence in 1991.
Distinctive features
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Latvian has a tonal accent system, distinguishing falling, sustained, and broken tones.
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The language retains seven grammatical cases.
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Latvian uses diacritical marks to indicate long vowels (ā, ē, ī, ū) and palatalized consonants (ģ, ķ, ļ, ņ).