Japanese Speech to Text

Turn spoken Japanese into readable text as it is spoken. LiveToka listens through your browser, writes out Japanese with kanji, kana and punctuation, and can show a live translation next to it — useful when you follow Japanese meetings, livestreams or lectures but read English or Chinese faster than you listen.

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Japanese transcription: what to expect

• Output uses normal Japanese script — kanji, hiragana and katakana — with punctuation (、 and 。) added automatically, so the transcript reads like written text.
• Japanese has no spaces between words. Sentences are segmented as they finish, so the translation appears sentence by sentence rather than word by word.
• Katakana loanwords and English terms mixed into Japanese speech (common in IT and business) are transcribed as spoken.
• Polite (keigo) and casual speech are both transcribed; the translation keeps the meaning rather than reproducing the politeness level word for word.

Popular uses

• Following Japanese livestreams, VTuber streams and online events
• Meetings with Japanese colleagues or clients
• Japanese university lectures and seminars for international students
• Practising listening: compare what you heard with the transcript

How to start

1. Click Start Japanese transcription above and sign in with Google.
2. Japanese is pre-selected as the source language. Choose Transcribe Only, or Transcribe + Translate and a target language.
3. Click Start Service and allow microphone access. Text appears as people speak.

Translating a call or livestream playing on your computer? See how to route meeting audio.

Translate Japanese

• Japanese to English live translation
• Japanese to Chinese live translation

Other languages

• Korean speech to text
• Mandarin & English speech to text
• Cantonese speech to text
• All supported languages

Frequently asked questions