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Turn Swahili video or audio into English subtitles. The speech is transcribed, then translated into English, and exported as SRT, VTT or plain text with the original timings intact.
Audio in Swahili (Kiswahili) is transcribed first, then translated into English (English). Because the translation runs on the transcript rather than on the audio, the English subtitle file keeps the timings of the original Swahili speech — each line appears at the moment it was actually said.
Both languages are written in the Latin alphabet, so the file needs nothing from your player beyond that script.
Swahili is spoken principally in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and the wider East African region; English in worldwide. A English subtitle track is what lets one recording reach both audiences without re-recording, re-editing or dubbing it.
Because subtitles are a separate file rather than part of the picture, you can attach several language tracks to the same video and let viewers pick.
Swahili is highly regular in its spelling and transcribes cleanly as a result. Kenyan and Tanzanian usage differ in vocabulary, and urban speech mixes in English heavily, particularly in Nairobi.
English has a wider spread of accents than any other language here, and the gap between spelling and pronunciation means recognition leans on context rather than sound alone. Names and technical terms are where errors concentrate, because those are exactly the words context cannot predict.
Four lines of Swahili speech, transcribed and translated, as they come out of the exported SRT. The timings are the Swahili speaker's — translation does not move them, which is why the file drops onto the original video unchanged.
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00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,240
Thank you all for coming.
2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
I'll share the details in a moment.
3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
That's all for today.
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00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
See you next time.| Swahili | English subtitle |
|---|---|
| Asanteni nyote kwa kuja. | Thank you all for coming. |
| Nitashiriki maelezo baada ya muda mfupi. | I'll share the details in a moment. |
| Hayo ndiyo yote kwa leo. | That's all for today. |
| Tutaonana wakati ujao. | See you next time. |
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Upload the video, set the spoken language to Swahili and the subtitle language to English, then export the result as SRT and upload it alongside your video. Nothing is burned into the picture, so the subtitles stay switchable.
Yes. Translation happens on the transcript, so every English line inherits the timing of the Swahili words it came from. The file will sync with the same video without adjustment.
Yes. Transcribing Swahili into Swahili subtitles is a separate job on the same recording, and gives you the original-language track alongside the English one.
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