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Thanks for joining. Today we go through next quarter’s plan. Before we start, can everyone hear me clearly? Yes, loud and clear. Let’s begin with the budget.
1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,200 Thanks for joining. Today we go through next quarter’s plan. 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:05,900 Before we start, can everyone hear me clearly? 3 00:00:06,300 --> 00:00:09,000 Yes, loud and clear. Let’s begin with the budget.
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Thanks for joining. Today we go through next quarter’s plan. Before we start, can everyone hear me clearly? Yes, loud and clear. Let’s begin with the budget.
1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,200 Thanks for joining. Today we go through next quarter’s plan. 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:05,900 Before we start, can everyone hear me clearly? 3 00:00:06,300 --> 00:00:09,000 Yes, loud and clear. Let’s begin with the budget.
A short example. Your files contain everything said in your own recording.
Cards issued in some countries are often declined for international payments. If yours is declined, try another card or a wallet like Apple Pay or Google Pay.
Swahili is written in the Latin alphabet with standard spelling. A verb is written as one word that carries the person, tense and object (ninakupenda, "I love you"), so one misheard syllable changes who did what; check verbs in passages that matter. Tanzanian Swahili and formal speech are usually closest to the written standard.
Automatic speech recognition has seen far less recorded Swahili than English or Spanish, so expect more mistakes in names, place names and specialist terms, especially in noisy recordings. Clear speech close to the microphone gives the best result. If a paid file cannot be transcribed at all, you are refunded automatically.
Choose a translation language before paying and you get two versions: the original Swahili transcript and a line-by-line translation, both as TXT and as SRT with the same timings. That makes it easy to check the translation against the original, or to publish subtitles in both languages.
Sheng and English mixed into Kenyan Swahili are transcribed as spoken, but slang is harder than standard Swahili. Tanzanian Swahili and formal speech give the cleanest results.
Yes, but expect more corrections than for Tanzanian or Kenyan Swahili: Congolese and Ugandan Swahili use different vocabulary and mix in French or English. Leave the language on auto-detect if long passages switch to French or English.
Usable for clear speech, with more corrections than in English or Spanish. Speech models have heard far less Swahili, so names, place names, numbers and specialist terms are where to look first. Background music, overlapping voices and phone-line audio make it harder still.
Yes. Pick English (or any of 141 other languages) as the translation language before paying. You get the original Swahili transcript and the translation, both as TXT and SRT.
Leave the spoken language on auto-detect. Each part is written in the language it is spoken in, so English sentences stay in English instead of being forced into Swahili.
It is supported, but less recorded Swahili exists for training speech models, so the transcript usually needs more checking than an English one. The price is the same, and a file that fails entirely is refunded automatically.
Last updated October 27, 2026