Adding the video
Drop in the video file unchanged: MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI, M4V, 3GP or a phone screen recording. The sound track is pulled out on the server, so there is no convert-to-MP3 step, and every timestamp still matches the picture. If the video is online, paste its public link under Import from link: YouTube, Shorts, TikTok, public Vimeo, Dropbox or Google Drive share links, or a direct link to a video file. Only the audio is downloaded. Playlists and channels are refused, so queue videos one link at a time, and sign-in-only posts such as Instagram need to be downloaded and uploaded.
The draft is then tied to the player. Click a line to replay it and fix it in place; changes save on their own.
Maltese, English and Italian in one clip
Maltese is a Semitic language written in the Latin alphabet, with a large vocabulary from Italian, Sicilian and English. Its letters ċ, ġ, għ, ħ and ż and the digraph ie are kept in every export. With a small speaker base and limited training data, the model gives a rough draft: expect missing dots and bars on letters, wrongly joined articles such as il- and l-, and words to rewrite.
Code-switching with English is everywhere in Malta, often within a single sentence, and English passages usually come out more accurately than Maltese ones. If a video is mainly English with some Maltese, select English and fix the Maltese lines. Maltese communities in Australia, the UK and Canada often mix in more English still.
Maltese videos people transcribe
Examples:
- Local news clips and political interviews.
- Parliament sittings and council meetings.
- Village festa videos, speeches and religious services.
- Family videos and interviews with older relatives.
- Your own TikTok or YouTube videos, for Maltese subtitles.
Maltese subtitles
After editing, export SRT or VTT; the UTF-8 files keep ħ and għ intact in YouTube and video editors. DOCX and PDF suit minutes and reports, and TXT is plain text for anywhere else.
Better drafts and English
Clear speech from one speaker and a close microphone work best; turn on audio repair for windy outdoor clips or band music at a festa. Speaker labels are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
The transcript stays in Maltese. For an English reading, open the Google Translate link on the transcript, or use the AI prompt export to hand the text to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. For audio-only recordings, see the Maltese audio to text page.