Dictate progress notes after sessions in Punjabi
Type with your voice in any app — up to 4× faster than typing. Built for mental health counselors who need accurate, hands-free text input across 60+ languages. Works with Punjabi and 60+ other languages.
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Say it once, it is written in Punjabi
Typing is slow. Speaking is natural. Soniox App turns your voice into finished text as you speak. Get seamless Punjabi transcriptions today.
Hands-free input
Keep your hands free while composing Punjabi text. Ideal for multitasking or when typing is inconvenient.
Long-form writing
Write Punjabi reports, articles, and documentation at the speed of thought. Voice Typing keeps up with natural speech.
Works in any app
Punjabi Voice Typing works system-wide across all apps and text fields — no integrations or plugins needed.
Boost productivity
Get more Punjabi text written in less time. Voice Typing removes the bottleneck between thinking and having finished text.
Voice input that works everywhere in Punjabi
Voice Typing works system-wide across all apps — no integrations or plugins needed. Handles Punjabi across varieties like Majhi and Malwai.
Works in any text field
Dictate Punjabi into any app or text field — emails, documents, messages, search bars, and more.
One tap to dictate
Activate Punjabi Voice Typing with a single tap and start speaking. Text appears instantly wherever your cursor is.
Choose your writing style
Set the tone for your Punjabi text — formal, casual, or anything in between — and Voice Typing adapts the output accordingly.
Smart punctuation
Soniox App adds Punjabi punctuation, capitalization, and formatting automatically as you speak.
Punjabi at a glance
Key facts about Punjabi.
native name
speakers worldwide
countries where spoken
Punjabi is spoken in India and Pakistan. Soniox App is trained on real-world Punjabi speech from multiple regions and accents.
Punjabi 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 Punjabi transcription compared to 6 other providers.
| Provider | WER (Punjabi) | Accuracy |
|---|---|---|
| Soniox#1 | 10% | 90.0% |
| 19.9% | 80.1% | |
| AWS | 27.5% | 72.5% |
| ElevenLabs | 39.5% | 60.5% |
| Azure | 48.1% | 51.9% |
| OpenAI | 85.1% | 14.9% |
| AssemblyAI | 100.9% | -0.9% |
Word error rate (WER) measures how many words a speech-to-text engine gets wrong. Lower is better.
Soniox outperforms Google, AWS, ElevenLabs, Azure, OpenAI, and AssemblyAI on Punjabi transcription accuracy.
Soniox App works with Punjabi and 60+ more languages
Soniox App transcribes and translates in Punjabi 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 Punjabi.
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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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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.
Punjabi language trivia
ਸਤ ਸ੍ਰੀ ਅਕਾਲ - that's how you say hello in Punjabi.
History and background
Punjabi is the most spoken language in Pakistan by native speakers, though Urdu is the national language.
The Gurmukhi script was standardized by Guru Angad, the second Sikh Guru, in the 16th century.
Punjabi is written in Gurmukhi script in India and Shahmukhi (Perso-Arabic) script in Pakistan.
Distinctive features
Punjabi is a tonal language — one of the few Indo-Aryan languages to use lexical tone.
Punjabi is written in two different scripts depending on the country: Gurmukhi in India, Shahmukhi in Pakistan.
The language has a rich tradition of Sufi poetry and folk songs.