About Zulu recordings
Zulu (isiZulu) is written in the Latin alphabet, with c, q and x for its click sounds. Urban South African speech often switches between Zulu and English, which stays in English on auto-detect.
Zulu subtitles generator
Turn a Zulu video or recording into a ready-to-use SRT subtitle file: upload the file or paste a link, see its exact length and price, pay once ($1 up to 60 minutes, $3 up to 10 hours) and download Zulu subtitles with timings, plus the plain-text transcript. Need subtitles in English or another language too? Add a translation and get a second SRT with the same timings. No account, no subscription.
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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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- Length
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Price for this file
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Apple Pay
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One payment for this file. No subscription, no account. Local tax added at checkout where it applies.
- Automatic refund if it fails
- Media deleted after processing
- You pay on Stripe’s secure page and come straight back here.
- We transcribe your file. You see the real progress and can leave the page.
- You download TXT and SRT. If we cannot finish it, you get a full refund automatically.
Example
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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Zulu transcription at a glance
- Native name
- IsiZulu
- Writing system
- Latin
- Writing direction
- Left to right
- Spoken in
- South Africa (mainly KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng), and in Eswatini, Zimbabwe and Lesotho
- Price
- $1 up to 60 minutes, $3 up to 10 hours, per file
- You get
- Full transcript as TXT, TXT with timestamps and SRT subtitles
- Translation
- Into any of 141 other languages, included in the price
- Language code
- zu
How to make Zulu subtitles
- Upload the video or audio (up to 5 GB) or paste a link from YouTube, TikTok, Facebook or another platform.
- Keep Zulu as the spoken language (or auto-detect), add a translation if you also want subtitles in another language, and pay once.
- Download the Zulu SRT file and add it to your video in YouTube Studio, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, CapCut, VLC or any player that reads SRT.
What the Zulu SRT file contains
Numbered subtitle blocks, each with a start time, an end time and the Zulu text spoken in between. It is plain UTF-8 text, so you can open it in any text editor, correct a name or a word and upload it again. You also get the full transcript as TXT, with and without timestamps.
Subtitles in Zulu and in a second language
Choose a translation language before paying and you get two SRT files with identical timings: the original Zulu subtitles and the translated ones. One translation is included in the price, so bilingual or translated captions for YouTube, courses and social video take no extra work.
Captions for YouTube, social video and editing
YouTube Studio accepts SRT files directly under Subtitles. Most video editors import SRT as a caption track that you can style and burn into the picture; for TikTok, Reels or Shorts you can paste the text into the app's own caption tool. The file is yours to edit and reuse, with no watermark.
An honest note on accuracy
Automatic speech recognition has seen far less recorded Zulu 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.
Questions
How do I add the Zulu SRT to a YouTube video?
In YouTube Studio open the video, go to Subtitles, add Zulu as a language, choose Upload file, select "With timing" and pick the SRT file. The captions appear once YouTube has processed them.
Are the subtitle timings accurate?
Each subtitle block starts and ends with the speech it contains, based on the timing of the recognised words. Long silences, music and overlapping voices can shift a line slightly; you can adjust any time in a subtitle editor or a plain text editor.
Can I get Zulu subtitles translated to English?
Yes. Pick English (or any of 141 other languages) as the translation language before paying. You get the Zulu SRT and a English SRT with the same timings.
How much do Zulu subtitles cost?
$1 for a file up to 60 minutes and $3 up to 10 hours, the same for every language. You see the exact price after the file is checked and before you pay, and there is no subscription.
Is Zulu supported as well as English?
It is supported, but less recorded Zulu 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
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