Dictate lesson plans by voice in Tamil
Type with your voice in any app — up to 4× faster than typing. Built for teachers who need accurate, hands-free text input across 60+ languages. Works with Tamil and 60+ other languages.
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Say it once, it is written in Tamil
Typing is slow. Speaking is natural. Soniox App turns your voice into finished text as you speak. Get seamless Tamil transcriptions today.
Hands-free input
Keep your hands free while composing Tamil text. Ideal for multitasking or when typing is inconvenient.
Professional vocabulary
Soniox App handles specialized Tamil terminology and professional language with accuracy.
Works in any app
Tamil Voice Typing works system-wide across all apps and text fields — no integrations or plugins needed.
Easier on your body
Reduce strain from extended Tamil typing sessions. Voice Typing lets you write comfortably for longer.
Voice input that works everywhere in Tamil
Voice Typing works system-wide across all apps — no integrations or plugins needed. Handles Tamil across varieties like Sri Lankan Tamil and Madras Tamil.
One tap to dictate
Activate Tamil Voice Typing with a single tap and start speaking. Text appears instantly wherever your cursor is.
60+ languages
Dictate in Tamil and 60+ other languages with seamless mid-sentence language switching.
Works in any text field
Dictate Tamil into any app or text field — emails, documents, messages, search bars, and more.
Choose your writing style
Set the tone for your Tamil text — formal, casual, or anything in between — and Voice Typing adapts the output accordingly.
Tamil at a glance
Key facts about Tamil.
native name
speakers worldwide
countries where spoken
Tamil is spoken in Sri Lanka and India. Soniox App is trained on real-world Tamil speech from multiple regions and accents.
Tamil 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 Tamil transcription compared to 7 other providers.
| Provider | WER (Tamil) | Accuracy |
|---|---|---|
| Soniox#1 | 9.6% | 90.4% |
| ElevenLabs | 37.1% | 62.9% |
| Speechmatics | 37.6% | 62.4% |
| AWS | 41.2% | 58.8% |
| 42.3% | 57.7% | |
| Azure | 47.2% | 52.8% |
| OpenAI | 79.3% | 20.7% |
| AssemblyAI | 88.5% | 11.5% |
Word error rate (WER) measures how many words a speech-to-text engine gets wrong. Lower is better.
Soniox outperforms ElevenLabs, Speechmatics, AWS, Google, Azure, OpenAI, and AssemblyAI on Tamil transcription accuracy.
Soniox App works with Tamil and 60+ more languages
Soniox App transcribes and translates in Tamil 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 Tamil.
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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.
Tamil language trivia
வணக்கம் - that's how you say hello in Tamil.
History and background
Tamil has one of the longest unbroken literary traditions in the world, with texts dating back over 2,000 years.
Sangam literature, written between 300 BCE and 300 CE, is among the oldest extant secular literature in any language.
Tamil has been designated a classical language of India.
Distinctive features
Tamil is a Dravidian language, unrelated to the Indo-European languages of northern India.
Tamil distinguishes between short and long vowels, and between dental, alveolar, and retroflex consonants.
Tamil has a strong tradition of linguistic purism, resisting Sanskrit borrowings more than other Dravidian languages.