Upload a Welsh 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 Welsh 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 Welsh
For a transcript rather than subtitles, see transcribe Welsh, Welsh audio to text and Welsh YouTube video to text. For subtitles from any YouTube link, YouTube to SRT; for any file, the SRT generator.
Captioning Welsh
Welsh writes w and y with a circumflex (ŵ, ŷ). Those two letters are not in Latin-1 or Windows-1252, so an old tool or a careless re-save turns them into question marks or drops the accent. The download is UTF-8; keep it so, and check the font in your player shows ŵ and ŷ.
Welsh words change their first letter after certain words (Caerdydd, i Gaerdydd, yng Nghaerdydd). A misheard place or person name therefore appears in several forms, and a search-and-replace for one form misses the rest. Correct each form when you review.
Delivery
<track> element with srclang="cy". 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15-minute vlog | $0.12 | $0.09 | $0.07 |
| 1-hour lecture | $0.48 | $0.36 | $0.29 |
| 2-hour Senedd-style meeting | $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 Welsh speech is transcribed in Latin script; read it through, correct any line, and download SRT or VTT from the transcript.
The file was opened or saved in an old encoding without those letters. Re-open the download as UTF-8 and use a font that covers Latin Extended-A.
Yes. North and south dialect differences are handled, and the text keeps each speaker's own words.
Yes. Make the Welsh file here, then add it to the video as its own track beside any English one; YouTube Studio and HTML5 players take one file per language.
We have not published a benchmark figure for Welsh, 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. Welsh SRT and VTT from one upload; packs from $4 for 500 minutes.