Welsh video to transcript
Drop in the video file without converting it: MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI, 3GP or a screen recording from your phone. The audio is pulled out on our server, so every timestamp still points to the right moment in the video. If the video is online, choose Import from link and paste a public link from YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, Dropbox or Google Drive, or a direct link to the file; only the sound is downloaded.
The transcript opens next to a player that highlights the current line. Click any line to hear it again and correct it in place.
Mutations, accents and English
Welsh initial mutations change the first letter of a word (cath, ei gath, fy nghath, ei chath), and the model sometimes writes the unmutated form or the wrong mutation. Circumflexes on ŵ and ŷ, and digraphs like ll, dd and ch, are kept, but check them. North and South Welsh accents, and words like nawr and rŵan, are both recognised.
Welsh videos switch to English all the time, from single words to whole answers in an interview. With Welsh selected, English sentences usually come out in English. If a video is mostly English with a little Welsh, select English instead and fix the Welsh lines.
Welsh videos people transcribe
Typical uploads:
- Lectures and seminars from Welsh-medium courses, for notes.
- Interviews filmed for research, oral history or journalism.
- School and community videos, for Welsh subtitles.
- Council meetings and public events recorded on video.
- Your own YouTube or TikTok videos, for Welsh captions.
Welsh subtitles and exports
Export SRT or VTT for Welsh subtitles (isdeitlau). The files are UTF-8, so ŵ and ŷ show correctly in YouTube Studio, Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Organisations that publish in both languages can produce a Welsh track from the transcript and an English track separately from an English recording. Correct mutations and place names before exporting, because the subtitle file is cut from the edited text. DOCX and PDF suit records and reports.
Accuracy and English
Welsh has far less training data than English. Clear speech gives a usable draft that needs a careful read, especially for mutations, place names and code-switched sentences. Speaker labels are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
The transcript stays in Welsh; there is no built-in translation. To read it in English, 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 Welsh audio to text page.