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Generate Swahili subtitles from any video or audio file. Speech is transcribed into the Latin alphabet with word-level timings, editable before you export it as SRT, VTT or plain text.
Swahili (Kiswahili) is written in the Latin alphabet and spoken principally in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and the wider East African region. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Swahili, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file.
Swahili is highly regular in its spelling and transcribes cleanly as a result. Kenyan and Tanzanian usage differ in vocabulary, and urban speech mixes in English heavily, particularly in Nairobi.
Four lines as they come out of the exported SRT, in the Latin alphabet with the timings taken from the speech itself.
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00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,240
Habari za asubuhi nyote.
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00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Asanteni nyote kwa kuja.
3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Mnanisikia vizuri?
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00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Nitashiriki maelezo baada ya muda mfupi.| English | Swahili subtitle |
|---|---|
| Good morning, everyone. | Habari za asubuhi nyote. |
| Thank you all for coming. | Asanteni nyote kwa kuja. |
| Can you hear me clearly? | Mnanisikia vizuri? |
| I'll share the details in a moment. | Nitashiriki maelezo baada ya muda mfupi. |
Swahili builds meaning by stacking endings onto a stem, producing few words but long ones. Lines come out dense rather than wordy.
Shorter subtitle blocks read better as a result, and splitting one across two events costs nothing — the timings come from the speech either way.
The Swahili material that comes through most often is news, educational content, sermons and vlogs. All of it works the same way — upload the file, check the transcript, export the subtitle track.
The same Swahili audio can produce subtitles in any of the 76 supported languages instead of in Swahili itself. English is the most common target, but every pair works, and the translated file keeps the original timings so it drops onto the same video unchanged.
Transcribe Your Video/Audio Automatically, then add the subtitles to your video or export them as SRT/VTT/text.
76 Languages supported (See List)
Translate Video/Audio into Subtitles in Any Supported Language, Automatically. Burn them into the video or download them as SRT/VTT/text.
76 Supported Languages (See List)
Translate or transcribe audios recorded in a noisy environment with great accuracy.
Have video where multiple speak different languages? No problem!
Different people from different places speak the same language differently, our AI can work through it seamlessly.
Accuracy depends mostly on the recording. Clear Swahili speech with little background noise transcribes well enough to publish after a read-through; heavy noise, crosstalk and strong regional accents all reduce it. The transcript is editable before export for exactly that reason.
Yes — that is translation rather than transcription. Choose Swahili as the spoken language and English as the target, and you get an English subtitle file that keeps the original timings.
SRT and VTT for timed subtitle tracks, and TXT for a plain transcript with no timecodes. All three come from the same job.
No. The transcript is generated from the audio in Latin. You only need to type if you decide to correct something in the editor before exporting.