How well does it handle Welsh?
Accuracy is strong on clear audio; give names and technical terms a quick scan.
Standard Welsh output; ll, dd, ch digraphs and circumflexed vowels (ŵ, ŷ) come out correctly.
North–south dialect differences are handled; English switches mid-sentence are the norm and transcribe cleanly.
What you get
Speaker labels
Every voice in the recording is separated and labelled — works in Welsh the same as in English, because speaker labels follow voices, not words.
Word-level timestamps
Each word is timed to the audio, which is what makes accurate Welsh SRT and VTT subtitle files possible.
Search & quote
The transcript is searchable in Welsh — jump to the exact second something was said and copy it with its timestamp.
Every export
TXT, SRT, VTT, DOCX and JSON on every pack — no format paywall.
Who transcribes Welsh audio here
Senedd and council recordings, chapel services, S4C-adjacent media, oral history.
Transcribe Welsh by recording type
Welsh audio to text · Welsh interview · Welsh lecture · Welsh podcast · Welsh meeting
Questions people ask
Do I need to tell it the audio is Welsh?
No — the language is detected from the first seconds of audio automatically. If a recording mixes Welsh and English, each part is transcribed in the language actually spoken.
Can I get English text from Welsh audio?
No. The transcript comes back in the language that was spoken, so Welsh audio produces Welsh text. Captions and every export stay in the source language; translation is not something Whipscribe does.
Does it work on Welsh video, not just audio?
Yes — upload MP4/MOV/WebM or paste a link; the audio track is extracted automatically and transcribed the same way.
How much does it cost?
A pack from $4 (500 minutes) opens the full transcript. Preview any transcript instantly with no signup; a pack from $4 opens the full transcript, no account needed. After that, one-time credit packs: $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes or $24 for 5,000 minutes, and credits never expire.
Is this live captioning?
No — Whipscribe transcribes recordings, not live speech. Upload a file that already exists and the Welsh transcript is typically ready in about a minute per half hour of audio.
Related: Audio to text · Subtitle generator · Interview transcription · Bulk transcription