Who transcribes Thai content?
Thai broadcasters, video production teams, and subtitlers transcribe interviews, news segments, and dramas for captioning and localization. Market researchers, tourism and hospitality companies, and academics doing fieldwork in Thailand also rely on Thai transcripts for analysis and documentation.
Thai dialects and accents
Standard Thai, based on the Central Thai spoken in and around Bangkok, dominates broadcasting, education, and most recorded media, and it is the variety speech recognition models target. Regional varieties — Northern Thai (Kham Mueang), Northeastern Thai (Isan, closely related to Lao), and Southern Thai — differ noticeably in tones and vocabulary, so heavily dialectal recordings typically need more editing.
Where Thai is spoken
Thai is spoken in Thailand and parts of China, Myanmar, and Vietnam.