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Malay audio to text
Use this free converter for Malay audio to text: it is set to Bahasa Melayu, writes Malaysian spellings such as kerana and bahawa, and puts a time at the start of each paragraph.
- Free
- Set to Bahasa Melayu
- Nothing is stored
Drop your Malay recording here, or Choose your Malay recording
MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG or WebM. Up to 30 minutes of each file, 3 free files a day. Spoken language: Malay.
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How it works
How do you transcribe Malay audio?
Upload the recording and the page does the work: it splits the sound into short pieces wherever there is a pause, writes each one in Malay and lists the paragraphs with their times. Copy or download once it finishes.
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Upload a Malay recording
A WhatsApp voice note saved to your phone, a ceramah, a class or an interview, as audio or video.
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Malay, piece by piece
Every piece is written in Bahasa Melayu, for up to 30 minutes of the recording.
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Keep a copy
Copy the transcript, or download Word, plain text, or SRT and VTT subtitles.
Does it use Malaysian or Indonesian spelling?
Malaysian, almost everywhere: kerana, bahawa, muzik, Ogos, tetamu and jambatan came back as a Malaysian reader would write them. A handful of Indonesian forms slipped in, bagian for bahagian and film for filem, so search for those two when you tidy up.
- kerana, bahawa
- What came backKept
- Ogos, Perancis
- What came backKept
- bahagian
- What came backUsually kept; bagian or sebagian twice
- filem
- What came backfilm once
| Malaysian form | What came back |
|---|---|
| kerana, bahawa | Kept |
| Ogos, Perancis | Kept |
| bahagian | Usually kept; bagian or sebagian twice |
| filem | film once |
What happens to English words in Malay speech?
They come back in English spelling, the way Malaysians drop them in: mood, mayfly, T-shirt and National Treasure all stayed English. Once, the Malay fiksyen sains came back as English, Fiction Science, so check borrowed terms both ways.
This page writes every piece as Malay, which fits Malay with English words mixed in. For a recording that changes to English or Mandarin for long stretches, the main converter detects the language of each piece instead.
Why do some sentences run together?
Because many pieces end without a full stop: about two in three in the Malay recordings we checked. Commas are mostly in place, and reduplicated words keep their hyphen (kanak-kanak, undang-undang), so adding full stops is most of the clean-up.
What should you check in the numbers?
Ranges and figures said close together. “10-60 minit” came back as “10 ke 60 minit”, which is fine, but “50 kilometer (31 batu)” ran together into “50,361 batu”. Numbers said as words, such as tiga puluh, often stay as words.
FAQ
Malay audio to text: questions
Does the Malay converter cost anything?
No. It handles 3 Malay recordings a day, up to 30 minutes each, with no account to create and every format free to download.
Can it write Jawi?
No. The Malay transcript comes back in Rumi, the Latin alphabet used for everyday Malay in Malaysia and Singapore. To get Jawi, run the text through a Rumi-to-Jawi converter afterwards.
Is my recording kept?
No. Short pieces of the sound go, over a secure connection, to a cloud AI transcription service, which transcribes each one and discards it. NoteOwl stores no audio and no text.
Is there an Indonesian version?
Yes, a separate page is set to Bahasa Indonesia and writes Indonesian spelling. Use this page for Malay as it is written in Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore.
Can I make Malay subtitles from a video?
Yes. Drop the MP4 or MOV in, then download SRT or VTT; each caption has its start and end time. Add full stops first so the captions break at the end of sentences.
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