Generate subtitles for your Maltese videos

About Maltese transcription

Maltese (Malti) is written in the Latin alphabet and spoken principally in Malta. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Maltese, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file.

Maltese is the one Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet: the grammar and core vocabulary are Arabic in origin while much of the rest is borrowed from Italian and English. Speakers switch into English constantly, and that is transcribed as spoken rather than translated back.

What a Maltese subtitle file looks like

Four lines as they come out of the exported SRT, in the Latin alphabet with the timings taken from the speech itself.

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,240
L-għodwa t-tajba lil kulħadd.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Grazzi lil kulħadd talli ġejtu.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Se naqsam id-dettalji fi ftit ħin.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Dak kollox għal-lum.

Getting a better Maltese transcript

• Set the language to Maltese rather than leaving detection on, particularly for clips under a minute where there is little audio to judge from.
• Upload the highest-quality audio you have; compression artefacts cost more accuracy than most people expect.
• Check proper nouns, place names and numbers first — recognition errors concentrate there.
• Read the transcript before exporting. Maltese subtitles are editable up until you download them.

Maltese subtitles in another language

The same Maltese audio can produce subtitles in any of the 76 supported languages instead of in Maltese itself. English is the most common target, but every pair works, and the translated file keeps the original timings so it drops onto the same video unchanged.