Who transcribes Spanish content?
Broadcast and digital newsrooms across Spain and Latin America, U.S. courts and law firms handling Spanish-language testimony, and market researchers running Spanish focus groups all transcribe Spanish audio regularly. Academic researchers, podcasters, and healthcare and government teams serving Spanish-speaking communities rely on it as well.
Spanish dialects and accents
Spanish spans two broad families: Peninsular Spanish (Spain) and Latin American Spanish, with notable regional varieties such as Mexican, Caribbean, Andean, and Rioplatense. The most audible differences for speech recognition are Spain's "th" sound for c/z (distinción), the softened or dropped syllable-final "s" in Caribbean speech, and the "sh"-like ll/y of Argentina and Uruguay.
Where Spanish is spoken
Spanish is spoken in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
