Transcribe Maori Audio or Video to Text
Upload any Maori recording — OpenAI Whisper detects the language automatically and returns an accurate transcript in seconds.
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About Maori transcription
Te Reo Māori sits within the Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family, sharing deep roots with Hawaiian and Samoan, and it uses a Latin-based alphabet where macrons indicate long vowels. Those long vowels carry genuine semantic weight: transcribing tāne (man) as tane, or distinguishing keke from kēkē, matters for meaning in ways that a missed diacritic in a more forgiving script might not. Because macron placement depends on correct vowel-length recognition, any ambiguity in the audio gets amplified in the written output. Accuracy on convert.express is rated low for Māori, and the script's sensitivity to vowel duration is a real part of why. A revitalisation language also means the pool of recorded speech used across the industry to train models is comparatively small next to a language like Spanish or Mandarin, so the system has had fewer examples to learn from across speakers and registers.
OpenAI Whisper is the only model that supports Maori on convert.express; MAI-Transcribe 2 and Gemini 3.5 Transcribe do not. Maori is detected automatically from the audio. Upload any Maori recording up to 2 GB — MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, MP4, MOV, and most common audio and video formats are accepted. Every account includes 10 free minutes of transcription per day; longer files are billed at €0.02 per minute with a €0.50 minimum per transaction. Transcripts download as plain text and are automatically deleted within 24 hours of upload.
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Tips for the best results
- Use a quiet environment — background noise is the biggest source of transcription errors.
- Speak at a natural pace; extremely fast speech reduces accuracy in any language.
- MP3 or M4A files work great; uncompressed WAV is ideal for professional recordings.
- Files up to 2 GB are supported — long recordings are automatically split and merged.
Frequently asked questions
- How accurate is AI transcription for Maori?
- Honestly, AI transcription for Māori is toward the lower end of what convert.express can reliably produce. Two things work against it: Māori is a revitalisation-era language with limited recorded speech in circulation, which means models across the industry have had less material to learn from, and the Latin script with macrons requires correctly identifying long versus short vowels that change word meaning entirely. Recordings where speakers are unhurried and pronunciation is clear tend to produce noticeably better results than casual or noisy audio.
- How long does Maori transcription take?
- Most Maori recordings are ready in under a minute. Processing time scales with file length — a 10-minute recording typically returns results in 20–40 seconds, and a one-hour recording in around 4–6 minutes. Longer files are automatically split, transcribed in parallel, and merged, so you never need to cut your audio before uploading.
- Can I translate Maori audio to English or other languages?
- Yes, two ways. For a quick English-only result, enable "Translate to English" in the upload options above — OpenAI Whisper transcribes and translates Maori audio to English text in a single pass, at no extra cost. For any other target language, first transcribe normally, then use the Translate action on the finished transcript in your dashboard — it's powered by Claude AI and can translate the Maori transcript (or its summary and action list) into any of convert.express's other supported languages, not just English.
- Which transcription model should I use for Maori?
- Use OpenAI Whisper for Maori — it is the only model on convert.express that supports this language. OpenAI Whisper is the established choice, with broad language coverage and single-pass translation to English.
- What audio and video formats are supported?
- MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG, Opus, MP4, MOV, MKV, and most other common audio and video formats are accepted. Files up to 2 GB can be uploaded. The language is detected automatically from the audio — no manual language selection is needed.
Māori · convert.express
Ko te reo Māori tētahi peka o te whānau reo Polynesia o te reo Austronesian, he hono tōtika ki te reo Hawai'i me te reo Sāmoa, ā, he arapū Latin tōna, me ngā tohutō hei tohu i ngā oro roa. He nui tonu te tikanga o ēnā oro roa: mēnā ka tuhia tāne hei tane noa iho, ka hē te tikanga; pērā anō te rereketanga o keke rāua ko kēkē — ko te tohutō tonu tētahi āhuatanga e huri ai te tikanga o te kupu. Nō reira, mēnā kāore e mārama ana te reo i te rorohiko, ka kaha ake ngā hapa o te tuhinga. I ruia mai i tēnei take, he iti noa iho te tika o ngā tuhinga Māori i runga i convert.express. Ko tērā atu āhuatanga ko te iti o ngā kōrero Māori i whakamahia hei ako mā ngā pūmanawa rorohiko puta noa i te ahumahi — he iti rawa atu ki tōna taha ki te reo Pāniora, ki te reo Haina rānei, nō reira he tokoiti ngā tauira i ako ai ngā pūmanawa i ngā kaikōrero maha, i ngā tūāhuatanga katoa. Ko OpenAI Whisper anake te tauira e tautoko ana i te reo Māori i runga i convert.express; kāore a MAI-Transcribe 2 me Gemini 3.5 Transcribe e tautoko ana. Ka kitea aunoa te reo Māori i te oro kōrero. Tukuna ake tō kōnae Māori, ā, taea ana ngā kōnae tae atu ki te 2 GB — arā, MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, MP4, MOV, me ērā atu momo kōnae oro me kōnae ataata e hāngai ana. Ka whiwhi kōrero kore utu 10 meneti ia rā mō ia kaute; mō ngā kōnae roa ake, ko te utu €0.02 ia meneti, me te iti rawa €0.50 mō ia tauwhitinga. Ka taea te tikiake i ngā tuhinga hei kuputuhi māmā, ā, ka mukua aunoa i roto i te 24 hāora o tōna tukuake.
- He aha te tika o ngā tuhinga AI mō te reo Māori?
- Hei kōrero tōtika, ko ngā tuhinga Māori i runga i convert.express kei raro iho o ngā taumata tika e taea ana e mātou. E rua ngā āhuatanga e tari ana: he iti ngā kōrero Māori kua whakaohoohotia i whakamahia hei ako mā ngā pūmanawa puta noa i te ahumahi, ā, me mōhio anō te pūmanawa ki ngā oro roa me ngā oro poto e huri ai te tikanga o ngā kupu — ko tēnei mea ngā tohutō he uaua nō te tīkanga. Ko ngā kōpae e mārama ana te kōrero, e āta korerohia ana, ka pai ake ngā hua i ērā e rangirua ana, e hūhunu ana rānei.
- He roa pēhea te wā mō ngā tuhinga Māori?
- Ka oti ngā tuhinga Māori o te nuinga i raro i te kotahi meneti. Ka huri te wā tukatuka i ruia i te roa o te kōnae — ko tētahi kōnae 10 meneti ka hoki mai ōna hua i waenganui i te 20–40 hēkona, ko tētahi hāora roa ka tae ki te 4–6 meneti. Ka wehewehea aunoa ngā kōnae roa, ka tukatukahia ōna wāhanga i te wā kotahi, ka honoa anō, nō reira kāore e hiahiatia ana kia tapahia tō oro i mua i te tukuake.
- Ka taea te whakamāori i ngā kōrero Māori ki te reo Ingarihi, ki ētahi atu reo rānei?
- Āe, e rua ngā ara. Mō tētahi hua Ingarihi wawe, whakahohea te āheinga Translate to English i ngā kōwhiringa tukuake i runga ake nei — ka tuhi me te whakamāori a OpenAI Whisper i ngā kōrero Māori ki te reo Ingarihi i roto i tētahi neke kotahi, kāore he utu anō. Mō ētahi atu reo, tuatahi tuhia māori noa, kātahi ka whakamahia te āheinga Translate ki runga i te tuhinga i roto i tō papatohu — ko Claude AI tōna pūtake, ā, ka taea te whakamāori i te tuhinga Māori, i tōna whakarāpopototanga, i tōna rārangi mahi rānei, ki ētahi atu reo e tautokohia ana e convert.express, kaua ko te reo Ingarihi anake.
- Ko tēhea tauira tuhinga e pai ana mō te reo Māori?
- Whakamahia OpenAI Whisper mō te reo Māori — ko ia anake te tauira i runga i convert.express e tautoko ana i tēnei reo. He whānui tōna āpure reo, ā, ka taea anō te whakamāori ki te reo Ingarihi i roto i tētahi neke kotahi.
- He aha ngā momo kōnae oro me kōnae ataata e tautokohia ana?
- Ka whiwhi kōnae MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG, Opus, MP4, MOV, MKV, me ērā atu momo kōnae oro me kōnae ataata e hāngai ana. Taea ana ngā kōnae tae atu ki te 2 GB. Ka kitea aunoa te reo i te oro kōrero — kāore e hiahiatia ana kia tīpakohia ōu ake te reo.