# Uzbek speech to text: why global engines fail and what actually works

Global engines miss every third Uzbek word. sezish is built for Central Asian languages: a Telegram bot, an offline Mac app and an iPhone app.

Canonical: https://sezi.sh/en/uzbek-speech-to-text/

Try dictating Uzbek to Siri or running an Uzbek voice message through a generic transcription service. The result is usually a word salad. Global speech engines are trained mostly on English and a handful of major languages; Uzbek, Kazakh and Kyrgyz are agglutinative, data-poor and heavily accented across regions, so error rates climb above 30% - every third word is wrong.

sezish is a speech-to-text service built specifically for Central Asian languages. Its model is trained for the region and holds around a 9% word error rate on Uzbek, while also recognizing Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian and English.

## Three ways to use it

**Telegram bot.** Forward any voice message to [@sezishbot](https://t.me/sezishbot) and get text back. Free for 10 minutes a day. Add the bot to a group chat and it transcribes every voice message automatically. Each transcript comes with translation buttons for six languages, including Karakalpak - a language most translation services simply do not cover, despite its two million speakers.

**Desktop app.** The Mac app does system-wide dictation and meeting transcription. Everything runs locally: the model is a 225 MB download and works fully offline. Meeting recordings never leave your computer - no cloud, no third parties.

**Mobile.** The iPhone app is live on the [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/app/sezish/id6797380577) (free), with live conversation translation, dictation and meeting notes. The Android version is landing on Google Play now.

## Privacy

Audio sent to the server travels over TLS, gets transcribed in memory and is not stored: the server returns text and forgets the audio. Nothing is used for model training. For fully offline work, use the desktop app. Details are in the [privacy policy](/privacy) on sezi.sh.

You can test the recognition right on the sezi.sh home page - press the record button and say something in Uzbek.