Upload a Maltese 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 Maltese 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 Maltese
For a transcript rather than subtitles, see transcribe Maltese, Maltese audio to text and Maltese YouTube video to text. For subtitles from any YouTube link, YouTube to SRT; for any file, the SRT generator.
Captioning Maltese
Maltese is written in the Latin alphabet with ċ, ġ, ħ and ż, and with the digraphs għ and ie. The dotted letters and ħ are outside the old Western encodings, so keep the downloaded UTF-8 file in UTF-8 and check that your player's font draws them; a decorative font often does not.
The definite article joins the noun with a hyphen and assimilates to some consonants (il-kelb, ix-xemx, iż-żiemel). Keep those forms whole when you break cues: a line that ends on il- reads as broken.
Delivery
<track> element with srclang="mt". 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 $4 for 500 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, which comes to about $0.29 to $0.48 per hour of audio.
| Recording | $4 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-minute news segment | $0.08 | $0.06 | $0.05 |
| 1-hour parish talk | $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 Maltese speech is transcribed in Latin script; read it through, correct any line, and download SRT or VTT from the transcript.
Any font covering Latin Extended-A, which most system fonts do. Check a cue with ħ, ġ and ż before you export the video.
It is written in English, as spoken. Mixed passages are the ones to read through.
Yes. Add Maltese as the subtitle language in YouTube Studio and upload the SRT with timing.
We have not published a benchmark figure for Maltese, so we do not quote one. Judge it on your own recording: the free preview (free preview of the opening minutes) 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
Free preview of the opening minutes. Maltese SRT and VTT from one upload; packs from $4 for 500 minutes.