Upload a Javanese 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 Javanese 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 Javanese
For a transcript rather than subtitles, see transcribe Javanese, Javanese audio to text and Javanese YouTube video to text. For subtitles from any YouTube link, YouTube to SRT; for any file, the SRT generator.
Captioning Javanese
Javanese has speech levels: ngoko between equals and krama for respect, with different words for the same thing (mangan and nedha, to eat). The text keeps whichever level the speaker used, which is what a subtitle should show. Indonesian switches mid-sentence are near-universal in modern Javanese speech and are handled.
Standard Javanese spelling writes the sound heard as o in many words with an a: Jawa is said "Jowo", sega (rice) is said "sego". Casual writing on social media often spells it as heard. Subtitles read better in one consistent spelling, so pick one and hold it across the file. The text is in Latin script, not Aksara Jawa.
Javanese has retroflex consonants that standard spelling writes with an h: dh and th, as in gedhe (big) and bathik. Casual writing drops the h (gede), and Indonesian, which has no such sounds, never uses it, so a cue written in Indonesian habits loses the distinction. Decide whether your subtitles follow standard Javanese spelling and correct those words on the transcript.
Delivery
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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
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. In some countries the free preview is not offered and the box asks for a pack first; the smallest is $6 for 500 minutes.
| Recording | $6 or $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15-minute vlog | $0.12 | $0.09 | $0.07 |
| 1-hour pengajian | $0.48 | $0.36 | $0.29 |
| 3-hour wayang recording | $1.44 | $1.08 | $0.86 |
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 Javanese speech is transcribed in Latin script; read it through, correct any line, and download SRT or VTT from the transcript.
Latin script. Aksara Jawa is not produced.
Both speech levels are transcribed as spoken, and Indonesian switches inside sentences are handled.
We have not published a benchmark figure for Javanese, so we do not quote one. Test a short file first and review every cue.
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
Javanese SRT and VTT from one upload; packs from $6 for 500 minutes, credits never expire.