Soniox named best-in-class STT for voice agents
Soniox App

Stop spending hours on end-of-shift charting in Galician

Type with your voice in any app — up to 4× faster than typing. Built for nurses who need accurate, hands-free text input across 60+ languages. Works with Galician and 60+ other languages.

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Free to start, with free credits added every week.

Say it once, it is written in Galician

Typing is slow. Speaking is natural. Soniox App turns your voice into finished text as you speak. Get seamless Galician transcriptions today.

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Hands-free input

Keep your hands free while composing Galician text. Ideal for multitasking or when typing is inconvenient.

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Professional vocabulary

Soniox App handles specialized Galician terminology and professional language with accuracy.

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Easier on your body

Reduce strain from extended Galician typing sessions. Voice Typing lets you write comfortably for longer.

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Write faster

Speaking is up to 4× faster than typing. Dictate Galician messages, documents, and notes without slowing down.

Voice input that works everywhere in Galician

Voice Typing works system-wide across all apps — no integrations or plugins needed. Handles Galician across varieties like Western Galician and Central Galician.

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One tap to dictate

Activate Galician Voice Typing with a single tap and start speaking. Text appears instantly wherever your cursor is.

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60+ languages

Dictate in Galician and 60+ other languages with seamless mid-sentence language switching.

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Natural speech input

Speak Galician the way you normally talk. Soniox App turns natural speech into clean, punctuated text.

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Choose your writing style

Set the tone for your Galician text — formal, casual, or anything in between — and Voice Typing adapts the output accordingly.

Galician at a glance

Key facts about Galician.

Galego

native name

2.4 million

speakers worldwide

1

country where spoken

Galician 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 Galician transcription compared to 7 other providers.

ProviderWER (Galician)Accuracy
Soniox#111.1%88.9%
Speechmatics16%84.0%
AWS16.6%83.4%
OpenAI18.1%81.9%
Google18.8%81.2%
ElevenLabs20.1%79.9%
Azure21.9%78.1%
AssemblyAI48.5%51.5%

Word error rate (WER) measures how many words a speech-to-text engine gets wrong. Lower is better.

Soniox outperforms Speechmatics, AWS, OpenAI, Google, ElevenLabs, Azure, and AssemblyAI on Galician transcription accuracy.

Soniox App: The all-in-one AI speech toolkit

Smart Scribe, Translator, and Voice Typing cover three ways people work with speech.

Smart Scribe

Caption Galician conversations live

App feature Smart Scribe
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Translator

Translate Galician and 60+ other languages live

App feature Translator
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Voice Typing

Speak to type in Galician

App feature Voice Typing
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One app. Everything you do with voice in Galician.

Get started free

Transcribe conversations in real time with Soniox.

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Learn everything Soniox can do

Need more details? The Soniox Help Center provides complete documentation for the app, including guides, videos, screenshots, and feature walkthroughs.

Learn how to use Smart Scribe, Translator, Voice Typing, and more.

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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.

Galician language trivia

Ola - that's how you say hello in Galician.

History and background

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    Galician and Portuguese were a single language (Galician-Portuguese) until roughly the 14th century.

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    Medieval Galician-Portuguese was the literary language of lyric poetry in the Iberian Peninsula.

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    Galician is co-official with Spanish in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain.

Distinctive features

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    Galician is closely related to Portuguese and shares much of its vocabulary and grammar.

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    The language uses the seseo — pronouncing "c" before "e/i" and "z" as [s] rather than the Castilian [θ].

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    Galician retains several archaic features lost in both modern Spanish and Portuguese.

Dialects and varieties

Western GalicianCentral GalicianEastern Galician

Official language in

Spain

Related languages we support

Frequently asked questions about Galician stop spending hours on end-of-shift charting

How well does Soniox App handle Galician as it is actually spoken day to day?arrow_downward
Very well. Galician has 2.4 million speakers, mostly in Spain, and real-world Galician is very different from the clean, slow speech most tools are trained on. Fast delivery, informal vocabulary, regional expressions, and overlapping voices in group settings are all things Soniox App is built to handle.
How accurate is Soniox for Galician compared to other providers?arrow_downward
Soniox achieves a 11.1% word error rate for Galician, outperforming Speechmatics, AWS, OpenAI, and 4 other providers in independent benchmarks. Lower word error rate means fewer mistakes in your transcripts.
What writing system does Galician use?arrow_downward
Galician is written in the Latin script. The script uses diacritical marks to convey additional phonetic information. Soniox App handles Galician text natively, including all script-specific characters.
Does Soniox handle different Galician dialects?arrow_downward
Galician has several recognized varieties, including Western Galician, Central Galician, and Eastern Galician. Soniox is trained on diverse Galician speech data, so it handles regional variation and dialectal differences effectively.
What language family does Galician belong to?arrow_downward
Galician belongs to the Indo-European > Romance > Western Romance language family. Among the languages Soniox supports, related languages include Portuguese and Spanish. Understanding these linguistic relationships helps Soniox deliver better accuracy across language families.
What is Soniox App?arrow_downward
Soniox App is a real-time speech app that turns spoken conversations into text and translations instantly. You can transcribe, translate, dictate, and summarize speech across 60+ languages — live, as people speak.
Is Voice Typing faster than typing?arrow_downward
For most people, yes. Speaking is typically up to 4× faster than typing, especially for longer text.
Where can I use Voice Typing?arrow_downward
You can use Voice Typing across apps and text fields — wherever you normally type — on supported platforms.
Is my audio or data stored?arrow_downward
No. Soniox App never stores your audio or uses it to train models. Text outputs are stored only to provide the service to you and are never used for model training.
Is Soniox App free to use?arrow_downward
Yes. Soniox App offers free usage to get started, with paid plans available for unlimited and advanced features.