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AI transcription engineered for Turkish morphology
Turkish is an agglutinative language where suffixes stack to create words that carry the meaning of entire sentences: Avrupalılaştıramadıklarımızdan means "from those whom we could not make European." Every suffix must obey vowel harmony, with 8 vowels organized into 4 front/back pairs (a-e, ı-i, o-ö, u-ü) that govern which variant of each suffix appears. The dotted/undotted I distinction (İ/i vs I/ı) is unique to Turkish and notoriously mishandled by generic tools. Consonant mutations change word-final stops at morpheme boundaries: kitap (book) becomes kitabı (his book). Vocova's AI navigates all of these patterns to produce correctly spelled Turkish text.
How it works
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AI decodes Turkish morphology and phonology
Our engine resolves agglutinative word structures, applies vowel harmony rules, and handles consonant mutations to produce correctly spelled Turkish with all special characters.
- Vowel harmony maintained across long suffix chains
- Dotted İ/i and undotted I/ı correctly distinguished
- Speaker diarization for multi-person recordings
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Features
Agglutinative word recognition
Turkish builds words by stacking suffixes: ev (house) → evler (houses) → evlerimiz (our houses) → evlerimizdeki (the one in our houses). Our AI correctly segments and transcribes these chains, even for novel combinations the model has never seen in training, by understanding Turkish morphological rules.
Vowel harmony compliance
Every Turkish suffix has variants governed by vowel harmony: the plural is -ler after front vowels (evler) but -lar after back vowels (odalar). With 8 vowels in 4 pairs, this creates complex suffix selection patterns. Our AI enforces these rules to produce orthographically correct output.
Dotted and undotted I distinction
Turkish has four I-like letters: İ/i (dotted) and I/ı (undotted). Confusing them changes meaning — sıkı (tight) vs siki (vulgar), kır (countryside) vs kir (dirt). This "Turkish I problem" breaks many tools. Our AI maintains the distinction in both lowercase and uppercase.
Consonant mutation accuracy
Turkish voiceless stops mutate to voiced when followed by vowel-initial suffixes: kitap → kitabı (book → his book), renk → rengi (color → its color), amaç → amacı (goal → its goal). Our AI applies these morphophonological rules consistently.
Label Turkish speakers
Automatically detects and labels different speakers in your recording, making interviews, meetings, panel discussions, and broadcast content easy to follow.
Why choose Vocova
Transcribe Turkish business meetings
Capture every detail from Turkish-language negotiations, team meetings, and client calls. Get properly spelled written records with correct vowel harmony and morphology.
Create subtitles for Turkish video
Export transcripts as SRT or VTT files with the dotted/undotted I distinction preserved. Add accurate Turkish captions to YouTube, broadcast, or corporate video content.
Process Turkish media content
Convert Turkish news programs, talk shows, podcasts, and documentary narration into searchable text for media analysis, journalism, and content strategy.
Support education and research
Transcribe Turkish lectures, conference talks, research interviews, and oral histories into text for academic analysis, student accessibility, and digital archives.
Who can benefit
Businesses operating in Turkey
Transcribe Turkish meetings, stakeholder calls, and training sessions into documented records with correct agglutinative forms and special characters for compliance and team use.
Turkish content creators and YouTubers
Generate subtitles and written content from Turkish-language videos and podcasts with every İ, ı, ş, ğ, ç, ö, and ü rendered correctly.
Researchers and academics
Convert Turkish interviews, oral histories, and conference recordings into text for qualitative analysis, linguistic study, and scholarly documentation.
Translators and journalists covering Turkey
Use accurate Turkish transcripts with correct morphology as the foundation for translation workflows, reporting, and cross-language content production.
Frequently asked questions
How does Vocova handle vowel harmony in long agglutinated words?
Turkish vowel harmony governs every suffix: the 8 vowels form 4 front/back pairs (a-e, ı-i, o-ö, u-ü), and each suffix selects its variant based on the preceding vowel. In a word like yaşamadıklarımızdan, each suffix (-ma, -dık, -lar, -ımız, -dan) follows the harmony chain from yaşa-. Our AI tracks this harmony through arbitrarily long suffix chains to produce correctly spelled output.
Does it get the dotted/undotted I right?
Yes. Turkish has four distinct letters: İ/i (dotted, front vowel) and I/ı (undotted, back vowel). Mixing them up is the infamous "Turkish I problem" that breaks many software systems. Our AI maintains the distinction in all positions: dışarı (outside, undotted), diğer (other, dotted), İstanbul (capital İ, dotted), and correctly uppercases i → İ (not I) and lowercases I → ı (not i).
Can it handle novel agglutinated words it hasn't seen before?
Yes. Turkish's productive morphology means speakers regularly create new word forms by combining suffixes in ways that may never appear in any dictionary. Our AI understands Turkish morphological rules rather than relying solely on a fixed vocabulary, so it correctly transcribes formations like Avrupalılaştıramadıklarımızdan even if that exact word wasn't in the training data.
How does it handle ğ (soft g)?
The Turkish ğ (yumuşak ge) is never word-initial and functions more as a vowel lengthener than a consonant — dağ (mountain) is pronounced closer to [daː], and soğuk (cold) as [soːuk]. Because ğ has no audible consonant sound of its own, it's particularly challenging for speech recognition. Our AI uses morphological and contextual knowledge to correctly place ğ where it belongs.
Does it handle consonant mutations at morpheme boundaries?
Yes. Turkish voiceless stops (p, t, k, ç) voice to (b, d, g, c) before vowel-initial suffixes: kitap → kitabı (book → his book), renk → rengi (color → its color), kanat → kanadı (wing → its wing). Our AI applies these morphophonological alternations consistently, producing the correct spelled form for each suffixed word.
Which Turkish regional accents are supported?
Vocova handles standard Istanbul Turkish, the Black Sea (Karadeniz) accent with its distinctive intonation and vowel qualities, Aegean speech patterns, Southeastern Anatolian varieties influenced by Kurdish and Arabic contact, and Central Anatolian pronunciation. The AI adapts to regional phonetic features while producing standard orthographic output.
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