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What makes Persian hard to transcribe

Persian is written right to left in a script adapted from Arabic, and like Arabic it normally omits short vowels — the written consonant skeleton often matches more than one spoken word, so context does real work in resolving which one was meant. Dari (Afghanistan) and Tajik (Tajikistan, written in Cyrillic rather than Perso-Arabic script) are close enough to be mutually intelligible with Iranian Persian but differ in vocabulary and pronunciation, so a transcript reflects whichever variety was actually spoken.

What your Persian transcript looks like

Transcripts are written in Perso-Arabic script with right-to-left rendering handled automatically, and short vowels are inferred the way a native reader infers them, rather than left as an ambiguous consonant string.

An illustration of how Persian transcripts are formatted — script, punctuation and timestamps. Not the output of any particular recording.

How accurate to expect

Studio-quality Iranian Persian transcribes well. Accuracy drops with heavy background noise and with Dari or Tajik vocabulary mixed into otherwise Iranian speech, since short-vowel omission in the script leaves more ambiguity for the model to resolve from context alone.

What usually needs fixing

1. 1 Short vowels omitted from the script mean the same written consonant skeleton can be read as more than one word — rare context-dependent misreads happen here.
2. 2 Dari (Afghanistan) vocabulary rendered with Iranian spelling conventions when auto-detected as standard Persian.
3. 3 Poetry and classical literary Persian, where formal metre and archaic vocabulary differ from everyday speech.

Getting better results

• → Specify Persian rather than leaving language on auto-detect if the recording mixes Dari or Tajik vocabulary — it keeps proper nouns from being normalised toward Iranian spelling.
• → Recited poetry and formal literary Persian transcribe differently from casual conversation; note which one you're working with if accuracy matters for that specific register.

Who transcribes Persian