Upload a Malay video or audio file, or paste a link, and download timed subtitles in Latin script (Rumi): 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 Malay 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 Malay
For a transcript rather than subtitles, see transcribe Malay, Malay audio to text and Malay YouTube video to text. For subtitles from any YouTube link, YouTube to SRT; for any file, the SRT generator.
Captioning Malay
Malay and Indonesian are close enough to read each other but differ in spelling and vocabulary: kerana and karena, wang and uang, kereta (car) and mobil. Subtitles for a Malaysian audience should read as Malaysian Malay, and the text is standard Malaysian Malay. For Indonesian there is a separate page.
Malay is written in Rumi (Latin script) day to day and in Jawi (Arabic script) in religious and some official contexts. The file is in Rumi. English and Arabic loanwords, common in Malaysian speech and in khutbahs, come through as spoken.
Malay builds words by adding prefixes and suffixes to a root: mengajar (teach), belajar (learn), pelajar (student) and pelajaran (lesson) all come from ajar. A wrong affix still looks like a real word, which makes it the error a reader of Malay subtitles notices and a skim misses. Casual speech also shortens words (tak for tidak, nak for hendak); decide whether the cues keep the casual or the full form.
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20-minute khutbah | $0.16 | $0.12 | $0.10 |
| 1-hour meeting | $0.48 | $0.36 | $0.29 |
| 2-hour lecture | $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 Malay speech is transcribed in Latin script (Rumi); read it through, correct any line, and download SRT or VTT from the transcript.
Malaysian Malay. Indonesian has its own page, and the spelling differs (kerana and karena, wang and uang).
No. The text is in Rumi, the Latin script.
Yes. English and Arabic loanwords come through as spoken.
We have not published a benchmark figure for Malay, 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. Malay SRT and VTT from one upload; packs from $6 for 500 minutes.