Autrans
Use Case

Family History & Oral History Transcription

Transcribe recorded conversations with grandparents and elders into written family history, preserving names, stories, and language exactly as spoken.

The stories your grandmother tells about growing up in the village, or the family history your uncle knows and nobody's written down, usually exist in one place: a phone recording that sits untouched because turning an hour of conversation into readable text feels like a weekend project nobody has time for. Autrans transcribes that recording, whether it's in Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Nigerian English, or Pidgin, into text you can actually organize into a family document, complete with speaker labels if more than one relative is talking. One-tap translation means a story told in Yoruba can be shared with cousins abroad who never learned the language, without losing the original transcript. This is for the family member who finally hit record during Christmas visiting and now has forty minutes of gold sitting in their phone doing nothing.

Benefits

  • Transcribes Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Nigerian English, and Pidgin, covering how most families actually talk
  • One-tap translation lets you share family stories with relatives abroad who don't speak the original language
  • Speaker labels separate voices when multiple relatives are in one recording session
  • AI summary and key quotes highlight the most memorable parts of a long conversation
  • Exports to DOCX or PDF, ready to compile into a family history document or book
  • Audio is never used to train AI, which matters when the content is deeply personal

How it works

  1. 1Record a conversation with a grandparent, parent, or elder relative, or use an existing recording
  2. 2Upload it to Autrans, selecting the language they spoke in, or let it detect a mix
  3. 3Review the transcript with speakers labeled if more than one person was talking
  4. 4Use one-tap translation if you want to share the story with relatives who speak a different language
  5. 5Export the finished transcript to DOCX or PDF to compile into a family record

Frequently asked questions

Can Autrans transcribe a conversation in Yoruba, Igbo, or Hausa?

Yes, all three are among Autrans's eight supported languages, alongside Nigerian English, Nigerian Pidgin, Arabic, French, and Spanish, so family conversations in any of these are transcribed directly.

Can I share the story with family members who don't speak the original language?

Yes, one-tap translation lets you translate the transcript, so a story told in Igbo, for example, can be shared with relatives who primarily speak English, without losing the original transcript alongside it.

Is my family's recording ever used to train AI models?

No, audio is never used to train AI under any circumstance. That's a fixed policy, which matters given how personal and private family history recordings usually are.

Can it handle a recording where two or three relatives are talking at once, switching languages?

Speaker labels separate distinct voices in the recording, and Autrans supports code-switching between its eight languages, so a conversation that moves between, say, Yoruba and English is transcribed as spoken rather than forced into one language.

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