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 1.5 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.
Available transcription models
10 min
Free every day
€0.02
Per minute beyond quota
< 1 min
Typical turnaround
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 ngā reo Porinetia, e hono ana ki te reo Hawaiʻi me te reo Sāmoa, ā, ka whakamahia he arapū Latin me ngā tohutō hei tohu i ngā oropuare roa. He mea whakaahua ngā oropuare roa nei: ki te tuhia tāne hei tane, ka rerekē tōna tikanga, ā, ko te rereketanga i waenga i keke rāua ko kēkē he take nui mō te māramatanga. Nā te mea ko te whakaahua i ngā roa o ngā oropuare te take o te tūtū i ngā tohutō, ka nui ake ngā hapa i roto i te tuhinga ina pōhēhē ana te oro. Nā reira, i runga i convert.express, he iti te taumata tika mō te reo Māori — ko te māmā o tōna arapū ki ngā roa oropuare tētahi take nui o tēnā āhuatanga. Ko tētahi atu take ko te iti o ngā kōrero recorded e whakamahia ana e te ahumahi katoa ki te whakangungu i ngā tauira AI — he tokoiti ake ngā tauira i rongo ai te pūnaha i tēnei reo i tērā i ngā reo pēnei i te Pāniora, i te Mandarini. Ko OpenAI Whisper anake te tauira e tautoko ana i te reo Māori i runga i convert.express; ehara ko MAI-Transcribe 1.5 me Gemini 3.5 Transcribe. Ka kitea aunoa te reo Māori i roto i te oro — kāore e hiahiatia ana kia kōwhiria ā-ringa. Tukua mai ōu hopu oro Māori tae atu ki te 2 GB — e whiwhi ana ngā kōnae MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, MP4, MOV me ērā atu momo rorohanga oro me ataata e kitea ana. Ka wātea ki ia pūkete ia pūkete he 10 meneti koreutu ia rā; ko ngā kōnae roa ake ka utu ki te €0.02 ia meneti, me te €0.50 iti rawa atu ia hoko. 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 taumata tika o te AI mō te reo Māori?
- Ki te kōrero pono, ko te reo Māori kei raro iho i ngā reo e tika ana te whakahua a convert.express. E rua ngā take nui: ko te reo Māori he reo e ora anō ana, ā, he iti ngā kōrero recorded e roa ana i tukuna ki te ao, nā reira he iti ngā tauira i ngga tauira AI ki te ākona mai; ā, ko tōna arapū Latin me ngā tohutō e hiahia ana ki te mōhio tika ki ngā oropuare roa me ngā poto, ko ērā ka huri katoa i te tikanga o te kupu. Ko ngā hopu kōrero māmārika, māmā ana te kōrero, e tino pai ake ana ngā hua i ngā hopu rorirori, tangatanga rānei.
- He roa pēhea te wā mō te tuhituhi reo Māori?
- Ko te nuinga o ngā hopu reo Māori ka oti i raro i te kotahi meneti. Ka piki haere te wā e hāngai ana ki te roa o te kōnae — ko tētahi hopu 10 meneti e hokia ana i roto i te 20–40 hēkona, ā, ko tētahi hopu kotahi hāora i roto i te 4–6 meneti. Ka wehewehea aunoa ngā kōnae roa, ka tuhituhia ngātahitia, ka hono anō, nā reira kāore e hiahiatia ana kia tapahia tōu oro i mua i te tukuake.
- Ka taea te whakamāori i ngā hopu reo Māori ki te reo Ingarihi, ki ērā atu reo rānei?
- Āe, e rua ngā ara. Mō tētahi hua reo Ingarihi wawe, whakaorahia te Translate to English i roto i ngā kōwhiringa tukuake i runga ake nei — ka tuhituhi, ka whakamāori hoki a OpenAI Whisper i ngā hopu reo Māori ki te kuputuhi Ingarihi i roto i tētahi neke kotahi, kāore he utu anō. Mō ērā atu reo whāinga, tuhituhia rā anō mua, kātahi ka whakamahia te mahi Translate ki runga i te tuhinga oti i roto i tō kaitūhono — ko Claude AI tōna pūnga, ā, ka taea te whakamāori i te tuhinga reo Māori ki ēhea atu reo e tautokona ana e convert.express, ehara ko te reo Ingarihi anake.
- Ko tēhea tauira tuhituhi e tika ana mō te reo Māori?
- Whakamahia a OpenAI Whisper mō te reo Māori — ko ia anake te tauira i runga i convert.express e tautoko ana i tēnei reo. He tauira pūkete, he whānui ōna reo e tautokona ana, ā, ka taea hoki te whakamāori ki te reo Ingarihi i roto i tētahi neke kotahi.
- He aha ngā momo rorohanga oro me ataata e whiwhi ana?
- Ko MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, OGG, Opus, MP4, MOV, MKV me ērā atu momo rorohanga e kitea ana ka whiwhi katoa. Ka taea te tukuake i ngā kōnae tae atu ki te 2 GB. Ka kitea aunoa te reo i roto i te oro — kāore e hiahiatia ana kia tīpakohia ā-ringa te reo.