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Voice type essays and papers faster in Finnish

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

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Free to start, with free credits added every week.

Say it once, it is written in Finnish

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

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Hands-free input

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

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Dictate emails and messages

Compose Finnish emails, chat messages, and documents by speaking naturally. Your words become polished text.

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Works in any app

Finnish Voice Typing works system-wide across all apps and text fields — no integrations or plugins needed.

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Easier on your body

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

Voice input that works everywhere in Finnish

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

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Works in any text field

Dictate Finnish into any app or text field — emails, documents, messages, search bars, and more.

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60+ languages

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

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Choose your writing style

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

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One tap to dictate

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

Finnish at a glance

Key facts about Finnish.

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native name

5.5 million

speakers worldwide

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country where spoken

Finnish 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 Finnish transcription compared to 8 other providers.

ProviderWER (Finnish)Accuracy
Soniox#110.6%89.4%
Speechmatics15.2%84.8%
Deepgram15.8%84.2%
AssemblyAI15.8%84.2%
OpenAI16.2%83.8%
AWS17.9%82.1%
ElevenLabs18.2%81.8%
Azure19.9%80.1%
Google20.3%79.7%

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

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

Soniox App works with Finnish and 60+ more languages

Soniox App transcribes and translates in Finnish and over 60 other languages with professional-grade accuracy.

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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 Finnish conversations live

App feature Smart Scribe
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Translator

Translate Finnish and 60+ other languages live

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Voice Typing

Speak to type in Finnish

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One app. Everything you do with voice in Finnish.

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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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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Meeting transcription

Capture every decision and action item from meetings automatically.

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Lecture transcription

Record complete lecture transcripts for study and accessibility.

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Medical dictation

Document clinical encounters hands-free with professional accuracy.

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Hearing accessibility

Real-time captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing users in any setting.

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Travel translator

Communicate across language barriers with real-time spoken translation.

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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.

Finnish language trivia

Hei - that's how you say hello in Finnish.

History and background

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    Finnish is not related to the neighboring Scandinavian languages; it belongs to the Uralic family.

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    The first Finnish-language book was published by Mikael Agricola in 1543.

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    Finland has two official languages: Finnish and Swedish.

Distinctive features

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    Finnish has 15 grammatical cases, and most grammatical relationships are expressed through case suffixes.

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    Finnish is highly agglutinative — a single word can express what English needs a whole phrase for.

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    Finnish spelling is almost perfectly phonemic: each letter corresponds to one sound.

Dialects and varieties

Western FinnishEastern FinnishNorthern Finnish

Official language in

Finland

Related languages we support

Estonian

Frequently asked questions about Finnish voice type essays and papers faster

How well does Soniox App handle Finnish as it is actually spoken day to day?arrow_downward
Very well. Finnish has 5.5 million speakers, mostly in Finland, and real-world Finnish 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 Finnish compared to other providers?arrow_downward
Soniox achieves a 10.6% word error rate for Finnish, outperforming Speechmatics, Deepgram, AssemblyAI, and 5 other providers in independent benchmarks. Lower word error rate means fewer mistakes in your transcripts.
What writing system does Finnish use?arrow_downward
Finnish is written in the Latin script. The script uses diacritical marks to convey additional phonetic information. Soniox App handles Finnish text natively, including all script-specific characters.
Does Soniox handle different Finnish dialects?arrow_downward
Finnish has several recognized varieties, including Western Finnish, Eastern Finnish, and Northern Finnish. Soniox is trained on diverse Finnish speech data, so it handles regional variation and dialectal differences effectively.
What language family does Finnish belong to?arrow_downward
Finnish belongs to the Uralic > Finnic language family. Among the languages Soniox supports, related languages include Estonian. 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.