Portuguese European Transcription Services

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Professional European Portuguese Transcription Services

European Portuguese is the official language of Portugal and an essential language across business, law, academia, and media in Europe, Africa, and beyond. Unlike Brazilian Portuguese, the European variant maintains a more formal tone, distinct phonetics, and grammatical structures, making transcription a task that demands precision and native expertise. Whether for corporate reports, legal hearings, government documentation, or media production, professional transcription ensures that spoken content is accurately documented and properly formatted.

At GoLocalise, we specialise in European Portuguese transcription services, providing structured, industry-compliant text that respects linguistic nuances and professional standards. Our team of native European Portuguese transcriptionists is skilled in handling formal business Portuguese, technical terminology, and regional dialects, ensuring that transcriptions are clear, accurate, and fully adapted to the European market.

European Portuguese differs significantly from its Brazilian counterpart, particularly in sentence structure, vocabulary choices, and speech rhythms. Automated transcription tools often struggle to recognise these distinctions, which is why human expertise is crucial. Whether your project involves business conferences, legal statements, research interviews, or media projects, our transcriptionists ensure that your message is clearly conveyed and professionally formatted.

By working with GoLocalise, you gain access to native European Portuguese transcription specialists who provide flawless, industry-specific text that enhances clarity and credibility in professional, legal, and corporate communication.

We used GoLocalise to voice several of our films in Vietnamese. The service was friendly and professional. Being able to attend the recording sessions gave me confidence; the sound engineer had taken a lot of time to familiarise himself with our films and scripts, and the voice talents were incredibly competent and good at adapting to any changes in the scripts as we recorded. The whole process was incredibly smooth and I felt in safe hands.

Josie Gallo

Content Co-ordinator at Medical Aid Films

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Custom European Portuguese Transcription Solutions

Every industry has specific requirements, which is why we offer customised European Portuguese transcription services tailored to a range of professional needs. Our transcriptions go beyond simple speech-to-text conversion, ensuring that spoken content is professionally structured for clarity and usability.

Full verbatim transcription captures every word, pause, and sound, preserving the spoken flow of dialogue, making it ideal for court cases, police interviews, and academic research.
Edited transcription refines the text by removing unnecessary pauses, filler words, and hesitations, ensuring readability for business meetings, corporate documentation, and media scripts.
Summarised transcription condenses long discussions, seminars, and government proceedings into concise, structured summaries, making it perfect for executive reports, research analysis, and policy briefings.

For companies working across multilingual regions, we also offer European Portuguese and English transcription, ensuring that content is accurately adapted for international communication.

Our commitment to quality, precision, and industry adaptation guarantees that every transcription is professionally formatted and ready for direct use.

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What Do Our European Portuguese Audio and Video Transcription Services Include?

Verbatim Transcription

A voice-to-text method that captures everything spoken, including interjections, signs of emotion (coughs, sighs, chuckles), false starts, and thought process shifts. It’s useful for reference during editing, but not ideal for finished, polished content.

Word-for-word transcription

This captures the speech exactly as it’s spoken, omitting filler words but without correcting grammar or sentence structure. It’s useful when accuracy is needed, but without polishing the final result.

Grammatically correct transcription

Filler words, false starts, and mispronunciations are eliminated, with grammar corrected. This creates a refined document that reads more like proper text, ideal for publishing or any public-facing material.

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What Are the Benefits of Transcribing Your European Portuguese Audio or Video Content with GoLocalise?

Makes Your Content More Discoverable

Take a podcast, for instance. By providing a text version of your audio content, search engines like Google can easily index and include it in their search results. When people search for keywords related to your subject matter, they’re far more likely to come across your material. This not only boosts your visibility but also significantly increases traffic to your site, expanding your reach and enhancing your online presence.

Increases the Likelihood of Your Content Being Quoted

Journalists, bloggers, and other content creators often rely on quotes and citations to back up their arguments. When faced with two equally credible sources, one of which has already been transcribed, the transcribed version is much more likely to be chosen. Having your content available in written form makes it far easier for others to reference and quote, increasing the chances of your material being used in a variety of publications and discussions.

Repurpose Your Content for Greater Reach

Creating high-quality audiovisual content, whether a podcast or a video, is both time-consuming and expensive. Why restrict it to just one format or platform? With a transcript, you can repurpose your content into a range of new formats, such as blog posts, social media updates, or short teaser clips that can attract new audiences. This process not only drives more traffic to your site but also ensures that your original content continues to serve a variety of purposes, maximising its value and impact.

Makes Your Content Accessible to a Wider Audience

One of the most important benefits of transcription is the increased accessibility it provides, particularly for people with hearing impairments. Without a written transcript, your audio or video content remains completely inaccessible to the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. Providing a transcript ensures that everyone, regardless of their hearing ability, can engage with your content, helping to make your message more inclusive and far-reaching.

Connects You with People Who Speak Other Languages

In the UK alone, there are approximately 550,000 Polish speakers, along with over a million speakers of languages such as Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, and Urdu. For many second-language speakers, especially when the content involves complex topics or colloquial expressions, following along with audio in a non-native language can be challenging. By providing a written transcript, you give these audiences a valuable resource to help them understand and engage with your content more effectively, bridging the gap between language barriers.

And There are Many More Reasons

Creating your audiovisual content, whether that's a podcast or a video of some kind, is often an incredibly time-consuming and expensive process. So why use it for only one purpose? You can use a transcription to repurpose your materials into a blog or social media post, to drive traffic to your website, to use as a teaser to bring people to a full-length podcast, and many more uses too.

Industries Relying on Accurate European Portuguese Transcription

European Portuguese transcription plays a key role across various industries, allowing professionals and businesses to preserve, analyse, and structure spoken content for practical use. We offer industry-specialised transcription services for:

Corporate & Financial Sectors – Transcription helps businesses document negotiations, investment strategies, and internal communications, ensuring that critical discussions are accurately recorded for compliance and strategic planning.
Legal & Government Institutions – Law firms, courts, and government agencies require transcriptions for legal contracts, official statements, and policy documentation, ensuring that records adhere to European and national legal frameworks.
Media & Content Creation – Portugal’s television, film, and digital media industries use transcription for subtitles, production notes, and interview records, ensuring that content is adapted for various audiences.
Education & Research – Universities and research centres rely on transcription for lectures, case studies, and academic interviews, preserving valuable data for future analysis.
Technology & AI Development – Transcription supports the development of voice recognition software, AI-powered speech processing, and automated subtitling, improving digital experiences for European Portuguese speakers.

At GoLocalise, we tailor each transcription to meet the specific formatting and linguistic standards required by different sectors, ensuring reliable, high-quality results.

Every single detail will be analysed, studied and looked after so that you do not need to worry.

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We have achieved ISO 9001 Quality Management certification in recognition of our consistent performance and high standards, and ISO 14001 Environmental Management because we care about our planet!

And if you are still curious and want to know more about us, why not have a look at our studio page.

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Why European Portuguese Transcription Requires Native Expertise

European Portuguese has a highly structured yet flexible grammar, meaning that word order and phrasing vary depending on context. Without native knowledge, transcription errors can change the intended meaning, which can be problematic in legal, corporate, and media applications.

Moreover, pronunciation and phrasing in Portugal differ considerably from those in Brazilian Portuguese, often leading to misinterpretations in automated transcriptions. In Portugal, speech is more rapid and vowel reductions are common, making human expertise essential for capturing accurate transcriptions.

For example, while “Você” is commonly used for formal address in Brazil, in Portugal, the preference is often “O senhor” or “A senhora” in business or legal contexts. Such distinctions must be maintained in transcription to preserve the appropriate level of formality and clarity.

At GoLocalise, our native European Portuguese transcriptionists ensure that each transcript is precisely formatted, linguistically correct, and suitable for professional use, eliminating ambiguities and misinterpretations.

Secure, Efficient, and Reliable European Portuguese Transcription Process

We follow a structured workflow to guarantee security, efficiency, and industry compliance in every transcription project:

Secure File Submission – Clients submit recordings through our encrypted system, ensuring full confidentiality and data protection.
Expert Native Transcriptionists – Our team transcribes content with full awareness of European Portuguese grammar, legal terminology, and industry-specific language.
Comprehensive Editing & Proofreading – Every transcript undergoes rigorous quality control, ensuring consistency, readability, and linguistic accuracy.
Industry-Specific Formatting – We adapt each transcription to meet corporate, legal, media, or academic standards, ensuring that it is ready for immediate application.
Final Delivery in Preferred Formats – Receive your transcription in time-coded, structured, or industry-standard formats, optimised for business, government, legal, and media use.

For large-scale projects, such as government documentation, multilingual business communication, and media transcription, we offer scalable solutions with high-level accuracy.

Why Choose GoLocalise for European Portuguese Transcription?

GoLocalise provides expert European Portuguese transcription, ensuring linguistic precision, industry compliance, and cultural adaptation.

Native European Portuguese Experts – Our transcriptionists ensure accuracy in regional speech patterns, formality levels, and industry terminology.
Customised Transcription Services – We tailor transcriptions for legal, corporate, media, or multilingual needs.
Industry-Specific Precision – Our transcripts adhere to legal, corporate, media, and academic standards, ensuring professional usability.
Reliable & Scalable Solutions – From one-time projects to ongoing transcription needs, we deliver on-time, high-quality results.

Let us help you transform spoken European Portuguese into structured, professional text. Contact us today to discuss your transcription needs.

What our happy customers say

GoLocalise are a joy to work with. Nothing is too much trouble for them and we always appreciate their good advice, flexibility, fairness and professionalism. I would highly recommend them for any project.

Stefanie Smith

Producer at Education First

I really love working with GoLocalise. Their subtitling department takes care of everything and they always deliver the best quality files. I’m also very happy that they’re willing, and capable, to work with all kinds of requests, and are always happy to help me and make the process better. The team is also so very helpful, and very nice to work with. I always recommend their services to everybody.

Patricia Leon-Fedorko

Account Specialist at Advanced Language

They’re reliable, adaptive and obsessed with quality. And while you can never be 100% guaranteed of perfection, you can be sure GoLocalise will go the extra mile to get it right every time. Whether that’s hiring extra resources, hopping on multiple calls or even changing their internal processes, they’ll do what it takes. We’ve worked with them now for over to 5 years and we are truly thankful to have such a strong localisation partner for our business.

Lucas Cole

Sales and Marketing Director at Epipheo

We have used GoLocalise on a regular basis for projects in a number of languages. The service we receive is great. The team is always friendly and professional. The voiceovers we receive are of a very high quality and the turnaround is extremely quick. We are very happy to recommend GoLocalise to other businesses.

Jo Samuel

Animator at Pixel Circus

It was a pleasure to work with David and the team at GoLocalise. David gave me lots of help and advice, guiding me through my first subtitling project. He really knows his stuff! The experience was completely pain-free. I would not hesitate to recommend GoLocalise – outstanding work at a good price.

Kerry Gillies

Director at Synergy Language Services

Golocalise are our supplier of choice for all our subtitling and transcription needs. After years of hassle trying to do it all in-house we have found their service to be a revelation in terms of speed, flexibility and costs. Their team is extremely responsive and can always turnaround requests, in any language, within our short deadlines. We can confidently rely on them to provide any deliverables without ever worrying about the accuracy of the subtitling.

Adam Ruddick

Head of Production at Casual Films

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100% Precise and Human Generated Portuguese European Transcription Services!

GoLocalise offers Portuguese European transcription services for audio and video files for business and individual purposes. Our expert team of transcribers will create a text version of your video or audio file, and we can also translate and/or voice over your transcript.

We are your reliable Portuguese European transcription company!

What Is Transcription?

No, this isn’t a trick question and you might be surprised how many people get this wrong. In simple terms, transcription is the process of listening to audiovisual content and writing down what is heard.

Seems simple enough, so what exactly is the part that confuses people?

Josie Gallo

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Understanding The Difference Between Transcription and Translation

Many people confuse transcription with translation.

If you need a text version of your audiovisual content in a language which is different to the original language of your source material then you need translation (which, by the way, we can also help you with).

If you’re simply in need of a written transcript in the same language as your original audiovisual materials, that is transcription and you’re in the right place.

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What Do Our Portuguese European Audio and Video Transcription Services Include?

Verbatim Transcriptions

A voice-to-text method that captures everything spoken, including interjections, signs of emotion (coughs, sighs, chuckles), false starts, and thought process shifts. It’s useful for reference during editing, but not ideal for finished, polished content.

Word-for-word transcription

This captures the speech exactly as it’s spoken, omitting filler words but without correcting grammar or sentence structure. It’s useful when accuracy is needed, but without polishing the final result.

Grammatically correct transcriptions

Filler words, false starts, and mispronunciations are eliminated, with grammar corrected. This creates a refined document that reads more like proper text, ideal for publishing or any public-facing material.

Let's get started!

What Are the Benefits of Transcribing Your Portuguese European Audio or Video Content with GoLocalise?

There is often confusion between transcription and translation. If you need a version of your audiovisual content in a different language, the you you require translation (which we can also assist with). However, if you simply need a written transcript in the same language as your original content, then transcription is what you need — and you’ve come to the right place.

Makes Your Content More Discoverable

Take a podcast, for instance. By providing a text version of your audio content, search engines like Google can easily index and include it in their search results. When people search for keywords related to your subject matter, they’re far more likely to come across your material. This not only boosts your visibility but also significantly increases traffic to your site, expanding your reach and enhancing your online presence.

Increases the Likelihood of Your Content Being Quoted

Journalists, bloggers, and other content creators often rely on quotes and citations to back up their arguments. When faced with two equally credible sources, one of which has already been transcribed, the transcribed version is much more likely to be chosen. Having your content available in written form makes it far easier for others to reference and quote, increasing the chances of your material being used in a variety of publications and discussions.

Repurpose Your Content for Greater Reach

Creating high-quality audiovisual content, whether a podcast or a video, is both time-consuming and expensive. Why restrict it to just one format or platform? With a transcript, you can repurpose your content into a range of new formats, such as blog posts, social media updates, or short teaser clips that can attract new audiences. This process not only drives more traffic to your site but also ensures that your original content continues to serve a variety of purposes, maximising its value and impact.

Makes Your Content Accessible to a Wider Audience

One of the most important benefits of transcription is the increased accessibility it provides, particularly for people with hearing impairments. Without a written transcript, your audio or video content remains completely inaccessible to the deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. Providing a transcript ensures that everyone, regardless of their hearing ability, can engage with your content, helping to make your message more inclusive and far-reaching.

Connects You with People Who Speak Other Languages

In the UK alone, there are approximately 550,000 Polish speakers, along with over a million speakers of languages such as Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, and Urdu. For many second-language speakers, especially when the content involves complex topics or colloquial expressions, following along with audio in a non-native language can be challenging. By providing a written transcript, you give these audiences a valuable resource to help them understand and engage with your content more effectively, bridging the gap between language barriers.

And There are Many More Reasons

Creating your audiovisual content, whether that's a podcast or a video of some kind, is often an incredibly time-consuming and expensive process. So why use it for only one purpose? You can use a transcription to repurpose your materials into a blog or social media post, to drive traffic to your website, to use as a teaser to bring people to a full-length podcast, and many more uses too.

Can I Use a Transcription As Subtitles?

Yes, and no. GoLocalise specialises in anything audiovisual so of course if you’re in need of a full subtitling service we can absolutely help with that too, and in fact transcription is an integral part of the process when creating a same-language subtitle file.

The main difference here would be that subtitling also requires very precise technological know-how so that the resultant subtitles follow subtitling conventions and don’t prove to be distracting to the viewer.

A transcription by default won’t necessarily follow these guidelines and is better suited for other purposes, such as the ones listed above.

Tap Into Our High Quality Portuguese European Transcription Services Now!

So, whatever your reason for transcribing your audio or video content in Portuguese European, we’re happy to help.

Whether it’s to make your Portuguese European podcast more accessible to people with hearing impairments, for use as a starting point for a video localisation project, or for any other reason, our experience in these fields has made us the top choice for clients all over the world who want to get more out of their audiovisual content.

Our transcriptionists specialise transcribing Portuguese European content, but also other audiovisual content from many other languages, consistently ensuring high-quality results.

Every single detail will be analysed, studied and looked after so that you do not need to worry.

Some would say it’s not too classy to blow our own trumpet… but we just like to point out two very important details.

We have achieved ISO 9001 Quality Management certification in recognition of our consistent performance and high standards, and ISO 14001 Environmental Management because we care about our planet!

And if you are still curious and want to know more about us, why not have a look at our studio page.

Why Choose Us?

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Reach your target market

Don’t leave your important communication to chance. Make sure your message is clearly understood by your audience and choose GoLocalise for your next voice over project. Check out our latest case studies.

We have thousands of passionate and professional voice over artists ready to work with you. Meet some of them in our blog stories.

No matter the type of voice you are looking for, we’ll either have it in our books or find it and source it for you. We’ll organise a casting and ensure you get the perfect voice to suit your needs.

You will also benefit from having your own dedicated project manager – a single point of contact – to guide you through your project, answer any questions you may have and make things a whole lot easier.

Meet your dedicated project manager

Your project will be in the safe hands of one of our multilingual project managers. They will guide you through every step and ensure you understand the process.

Our industry has a tendency to use lots of technical jargon but your dedicated project manager will be on-hand to untangle the mess and explain all you need to know to ensure you only pay for what you need.

If you need help in choosing the right voice over talent to deliver your message then just ask your project manager.

From booking our voice over recording studios to ensuring you project is delivered on time in your chosen media, relax and let your experienced project manager take care of everything.

You will receive unparalleled attention to detail and customer focus at competitive prices. You’ll wish everything was as easy as a GoLocalise voice over agency!

Perfect voice over recording studios

Your most discerning customers will thank you for choosing our modern state-of-the-art recording studios. Every detail has been carefully thought through for your comfort, leaving you to simply focus on what matters most – the voice over session.

Your recordings will sound beautiful and crystal clear thanks to our high-end studio sound-proofing and audio equipment, i.e. ProTools HD and Neumann microphones.

Maximise your budget by reducing the need for retakes with the help of our experienced in-house sound engineers who will professionally capture and edit your audio.

And for those recordings in languages which neither you nor your client speak, we’ll bring a qualified pro to your session to add that essential ingredient.

To make you feel right at home, we provide high-speed Wi-Fi Internet and air-con is available. And last but not least, we have the biggest cookie jar you’ve ever seen, that’ll make your custom brew taste even sweeter!

What our happy customers say

They’re reliable, adaptive and obsessed with quality. And while you can never be 100% guaranteed of perfection, you can be sure GoLocalise will go the extra mile to get it right every time. Whether that’s hiring extra resources, hopping on multiple calls or even changing their internal processes, they’ll do what it takes. We’ve worked with them now for over to 5 years and we are truly thankful to have such a strong localisation partner for our business.

Lucas Cole

Sales and Marketing Director at Epipheo

We have used GoLocalise on a regular basis for projects in a number of languages. The service we receive is great. The team is always friendly and professional. The voiceovers we receive are of a very high quality and the turnaround is extremely quick. We are very happy to recommend GoLocalise to other businesses.

Jo Samuel

Animator at Pixel Circus

I really love working with GoLocalise. Their subtitling department takes care of everything and they always deliver the best quality files. I’m also very happy that they’re willing, and capable, to work with all kinds of requests, and are always happy to help me and make the process better. The team is also so very helpful, and very nice to work with. I always recommend their services to everybody.

Patricia Leon-Fedorko

Account Specialist at Advanced Language

Josie Gallo

We’ve worked with the GoLocalise team on countless video projects and have always had the same consistent, great experience. Not only are they responsive and quick on turnaround, I can always trust the VO will be done right – they are always 100% clear with communication and ensure their talent is prepared to record by asking necessary questions upfront before recording. Highly recommended and will definitely work with them on future projects.

Jonathan Lapps

Account Manager at Epipheo

Golocalise are our supplier of choice for all our subtitling and transcription needs. After years of hassle trying to do it all in-house we have found their service to be a revelation in terms of speed, flexibility and costs. Their team is extremely responsive and can always turnaround requests, in any language, within our short deadlines. We can confidently rely on them to provide any deliverables without ever worrying about the accuracy of the subtitling.

Adam Ruddick

Head of Production at Casual Films

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A Brief History Of Portuguese European

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Romance language and the sole official language of Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe. It also has co-official language status in Macau and East Timor. As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese and Portuguese creole speakers are also found in Goa, Daman and Diu in India; in Batticaloa on the east coast of Sri Lanka, in the Indonesian island of Flores, and in Malacca in Malaysia.

Portuguese is a part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia. With approximately 215 to 220 million native speakers and 260 million total speakers, Portuguese is usually listed as the fifth most natively spoken language, the third most spoken European language in terms of native speakers and a major language of the Southern Hemisphere. It is also the most spoken language in South America and the second most spoken in Latin America after Spanish, and is an official language of the European Union and Mercosul.

Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes once called Portuguese “the sweet and gracious language” and Spanish playwright Lope de Vega referred to it as “sweet”, while the Brazilian writer Olavo Bilacpoetically described it as “a última flor do Lácio, inculta e bela” (the last flower of Latium, rustic and beautiful). Portuguese is also termed “the language of Camões”, after one of the greatest literary figures in the Portuguese language, Luís Vaz de Camões.

In March 2006, the Museum of the Portuguese Language, an interactive museum about the Portuguese language, was founded in São Paulo, Brazil, the city with the greatest number of Portuguese language speakers in the world. The Museum is the first of its kind in the world.

Dialects

Modern Standard European Portuguese (português padrão) is based on the Portuguese spoken in the area including and surrounding the cities of Coimbra and Lisbon, in central Portugal, while modern Standard Brazilian Portuguese (português neutro) is based on the Portuguese spoken in the area including and surrounding the city of Rio de Janeiro, in south-eastern Brazil, which if vanished from its stereotypical traits i.e. its strong European flavour in phonology and prosody, is linguistically a halfway between Brazilian dialects and accents. Standard European Portuguese is also the preferred standard by the Portuguese-speaking African countries. As such, and despite the fact that its speakers are dispersed around the world, Portuguese has only two dialects used for learning: the European and the Brazilian.