1. Upload your audio file.
With our uploader, you can import your file from anywhere, whether it's on your laptop, Google Drive, Youtube, or Dropbox. The first 10 minutes are free and there's no file limit.
Our audio translator is perfect to turn any Japanese audio into text in English.
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With our uploader, you can import your file from anywhere, whether it's on your laptop, Google Drive, Youtube, or Dropbox. The first 10 minutes are free and there's no file limit.
We currently support translating from Japanese to English, Spanish, French, German, Mandarin, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Japanese, and Polish.
To translate your audio, we first need to transcribe it.
Our automatic transcription software is lightning fast and 85% accurate. With our human service, your file will be transcribed and proofread by an expert and native speaker and delivered with 99% accuracy.
Our automatic transcription software will convert your file to text in just a few minutes (depending on the length of your file). If you choose our human service, your transcript will be ready within 24 hours.
Our audio translator will generate the English translation of your transcript within a minute.
It's that easy to get translate your Japanese audio to English.

Our automatic transcription software transcribes the Japanese audio and our audio translator will translate it into English
If you want to translate an audio recording from Japanese to English, you can use HappyScribe's transcription and translation services. First, choose a transcription service to convert the Japanese audio to text. Once you have received the transcript, you can translate the transcript to English from the editor.
Translating your Japanese audio to text in English has multiple applications. For instance, if you are trying to learn the language, it might help you understand the text better. Another interesting application of translating audio files is that you can create closed captions and subtitles in other languages much faster.
There are plenty of free iPhone and Android apps that can translate Japanese speech into English. However, live audio translation might lack precision. Even though we don't offer live speech translation, if you are looking for an affordable, accurate, and fast Japanese to English audio translator, HappyScribe is the best alternative.
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"Generally good, though not so accurate when there is background noise"
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"I am amazed at the quality of transcription. There are some words that are phonetically similar that need to be corrected but for the most part the speech-to-text is excellent."
"A very helpful tool, although could do with more free minutes."
"Excellent transcription, fantastic tool, works very well in French, very useful, I have made film interviews and transcriptions for writing a book. Gain of time"
"Generally good, though not so accurate when there is background noise"
"Great tool, very powerful and takes the pain out of having to do it manually in Premiere Pro. Only charges by the length of the video you upload!"
"Reliable and quick with nice features for exports and review. I was super pleased with the results and quality. It wasn't perfect, but I was dealing with recordings that weren't particularly high quality themselves."
"HappyScribe made me an almost word-perfect transcription of a long German conversation when the audio was not of the best quality. Impressive!"
"I am amazed at the quality of transcription. There are some words that are phonetically similar that need to be corrected but for the most part the speech-to-text is excellent."
"A very helpful tool, although could do with more free minutes."
"A very helpful tool, although could do with more free minutes."
"I am amazed at the quality of transcription. There are some words that are phonetically similar that need to be corrected but for the most part the speech-to-text is excellent."
"HappyScribe made me an almost word-perfect transcription of a long German conversation when the audio was not of the best quality. Impressive!"
"Reliable and quick with nice features for exports and review. I was super pleased with the results and quality. It wasn't perfect, but I was dealing with recordings that weren't particularly high quality themselves."
"Great tool, very powerful and takes the pain out of having to do it manually in Premiere Pro. Only charges by the length of the video you upload!"
"Generally good, though not so accurate when there is background noise"
"Excellent transcription, fantastic tool, works very well in French, very useful, I have made film interviews and transcriptions for writing a book. Gain of time"
"A very helpful tool, although could do with more free minutes."
"I am amazed at the quality of transcription. There are some words that are phonetically similar that need to be corrected but for the most part the speech-to-text is excellent."
"HappyScribe made me an almost word-perfect transcription of a long German conversation when the audio was not of the best quality. Impressive!"
"Reliable and quick with nice features for exports and review. I was super pleased with the results and quality. It wasn't perfect, but I was dealing with recordings that weren't particularly high quality themselves."
"Great tool, very powerful and takes the pain out of having to do it manually in Premiere Pro. Only charges by the length of the video you upload!"
"Generally good, though not so accurate when there is background noise"
"Excellent transcription, fantastic tool, works very well in French, very useful, I have made film interviews and transcriptions for writing a book. Gain of time"