Real-time interpreter for non-English patients in Basque
Soniox App translates speech in real time, word by word, across 60+ languages and is built for physicians who work across language barriers. Conversations flow naturally with no waiting. Works with Basque and 60+ other languages.
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Speak your language, be understood in theirs in Basque
Language barriers slow down conversations and create misunderstandings. Soniox App removes them. Get seamless Basque transcriptions today.
No interpreter needed
Soniox App works like a live voice interpreter, translating Basque speech in real time between any supported languages.
Read translations live
Basque translations appear on screen in real time so both sides of the conversation can follow along.
Works everywhere
Use Translator for Basque on your phone, tablet, or computer — wherever conversations happen.
Understand every word
Even when Basque accents or fast speech make listening hard, Translator shows you exactly what was said.
Translation that keeps up with conversation in Basque
Soniox App translates as people speak, not after they finish. Handles Basque across varieties like Bizkaian and Gipuzkoan.
Two-way conversations
Speak Basque while others speak their language. Soniox App translates both directions so everyone understands.
Hear and read translations
Basque translations appear as text on screen so you can follow the conversation visually.
No manual setup
Just start speaking Basque. Soniox App detects the language and translates automatically without configuration.
Zero delay
Translation happens as Basque words are spoken — not sentence by sentence — so conversations feel natural.
Basque at a glance
Key facts about Basque.
native name
speakers worldwide
country where spoken
Basque 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 Basque transcription compared to 6 other providers.
| Provider | WER (Basque) | Accuracy |
|---|---|---|
| Speechmatics | 7.2% | 92.8% |
| Soniox#2 | 10.7% | 89.3% |
| AWS | 11.8% | 88.2% |
| 15.1% | 84.9% | |
| Azure | 18.2% | 81.8% |
| OpenAI | 42.4% | 57.6% |
| AssemblyAI | 77.4% | 22.6% |
Word error rate (WER) measures how many words a speech-to-text engine gets wrong. Lower is better.
Soniox outperforms AWS, Google, Azure, OpenAI, and AssemblyAI on Basque transcription accuracy.
Soniox App works with Basque and 60+ more languages
Soniox App transcribes and translates in Basque 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 Basque.
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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.
Basque language trivia
Kaixo - that's how you say hello in Basque.
History and background
- history
Basque is a language isolate with no demonstrated genealogical relationship to any other living language.
- history
It predates the arrival of Indo-European languages in Europe and has been spoken in the region for thousands of years.
- history
A unified standard form called Euskara Batua was created in 1968 by the Royal Academy of the Basque Language.
Distinctive features
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Basque uses an ergative-absolutive case system, which is rare among European languages.
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Verbs agree with the subject, direct object, and indirect object simultaneously.
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The Basque number system is vigesimal, counting in base 20.