Upload a Afrikaans video or audio file, or paste a link, and download timed subtitles in Latin script: SRT for YouTube and video editors, VTT for web players.
How it works
Drop a file, or paste a public link from YouTube, Google Drive or a podcast feed. Files over 500 MB continue on the upload page, up to 10 hours or 5 GB.
Read the first Afrikaans cues against the audio. Correct a line on the transcript and the subtitle file carries the correction.
SRT for YouTube Studio and video editors, VTT for web players. TXT, DOCX and JSON come from the same transcript.
What to expect with Afrikaans
For a transcript rather than subtitles, see transcribe Afrikaans, Afrikaans audio to text and Afrikaans YouTube video to text. For subtitles from any YouTube link, YouTube to SRT; for any file, the SRT generator.
Captioning Afrikaans
Afrikaans has a spelling rule English tools get wrong: the indefinite article 'n is always lowercase, even at the start of a sentence, and the next word takes the capital: 'n Man het gebel. A subtitle editor's automatic sentence case turns that into 'N man, which is an error. Afrikaans also uses ê, ë, ô and û (sê, môre, brûe), and they carry meaning.
Afrikaans grew from Dutch and keeps much of its spelling, but it is not Dutch: verbs do not change for person (ek is, hy is, ons is), and the past is built with het and a ge- form. A Dutch spell check in your subtitle editor marks correct Afrikaans as wrong, so review against Afrikaans rules. Spoken numbers put the unit first, as in Dutch (een-en-twintig, twenty-one); digits fit a short cue better than words.
Short endings carry a lot in Afrikaans: diminutives end in -ie, -jie or -tjie (hondjie, mannetjie) and plurals in -e or -s (boeke, seuns). They are the sounds most easily swallowed in quick speech, so they are the endings to check when you read the cues against the audio.
Delivery
<track> element with srclang="af". How to attach it.Before you rely on it
Each cue is a phrase from the transcript with its start and end time. Most run a few seconds. A passage spoken without a pause can come out as one long cue of up to about half a minute, so split those in your editor if your platform wants two short lines at a time.
Cue times are taken from the recording itself, so the file lines up with the video or audio you uploaded. If you trim the start of the video afterwards, shift the cues by the same amount in your editor.
Open the transcript, correct a misheard name or number on its line, and the SRT and VTT you download carry the correction with the timing unchanged.
You get the subtitle file. Fonts, colours, position and captions drawn into the picture are done in your video editor or player, which reads this file.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per recording. The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; larger ones continue on the upload page. 99+ languages, detected automatically.
Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters. The cues in the subtitle file carry the words and their timing only.
Pricing
The preview is free. When the full transcript needs a pack, one-time packs are $6 for 500 minutes, $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, which comes to about $0.29 to $0.72 per hour of audio.
| Recording | $6 or $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-minute interview | $0.08 | $0.06 | $0.05 |
| 1-hour church service | $0.48 | $0.36 | $0.29 |
| 2-hour radio programme | $0.96 | $0.72 | $0.58 |
Figures are the share of a pack each recording uses. A button opens secure checkout for that pack. Every export format is included; full details on the pricing page.
FAQ
Upload the video or paste its link in the box on this page. The Afrikaans speech is transcribed in Latin script; read it through, correct any line, and download SRT or VTT from the transcript.
That is the Afrikaans rule: 'n is never capitalised, and the following word takes the capital. Switch off automatic sentence case in your subtitle editor.
Yes. Code-switching is handled; names and English place names are the parts worth checking.
Yes, the file is UTF-8 and keeps them.
We have not published a benchmark figure for Afrikaans, so we do not quote one. Judge it on your own recording: the free preview (first 20 minutes free) shows the text before you pay.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. Files over 500 MB continue on the upload page rather than in the box on this page.
Every page in this set uses the same upload box and the same export. All subtitle pages
First 20 minutes free. Afrikaans SRT and VTT from one upload; packs from $6 for 500 minutes.