diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index 2f5e88e..88cb135 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -333,6 +333,18 @@ size_t curl_write(char* buffer, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void* data) {
   return size * nmemb;
 }
 
+std::string clean_transcript(std::string transcript) {
+  // Qwen3-ASR prefixes transcripts with the detected language and this marker.
+  constexpr const char* kLanguagePrefix = "language ";
+  constexpr const char* kTextMarker = "<astext>";
+  if (transcript.compare(0, std::strlen(kLanguagePrefix), kLanguagePrefix) != 0) {
+    return transcript;
+  }
+  const size_t marker = transcript.find(kTextMarker, std::strlen(kLanguagePrefix));
+  if (marker == std::string::npos) return transcript;
+  return transcript.substr(marker + std::strlen(kTextMarker));
+}
+
 bool transcription_request(const std::string& url, const std::string& key,
                            const std::string& model, const std::string& path,
                            const std::string& prompt,
@@ -402,7 +414,7 @@ bool transcription_request(const std::string& url, const std::string& key,
     g_object_unref(parser);
     return false;
   }
-  *transcript = json_object_get_string_member(object, "text");
+  *transcript = clean_transcript(json_object_get_string_member(object, "text"));
   g_object_unref(parser);
   return true;
 }