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Swahili YouTube Transcript

Paste a YouTube link to get its transcript in Swahili (Kiswahili). Videos with Swahili captions show them directly; any other video is translated into Swahili, with the original above each line. Free, no sign-up.

How to get a YouTube transcript in Swahili

  1. 1

    Copy the video link

    Any YouTube video, Short, or finished livestream, in Swahili or any other language.

  2. 2

    Paste it above

    If the video has Swahili captions you get them as they are. If not, the transcript is translated into Swahili automatically.

  3. 3

    Copy, compare, or download

    Turn on Show original to see each line next to its source, then copy the text or download a Swahili TXT or SRT file.

Swahili captions or a Swahili translation

Swahili videos from Kenya, Tanzania, and across East Africa increasingly have auto-captions. When a video has no Swahili track, the tool machine-translates the transcript, which is accurate enough to follow along, study, or search. For publishing, have a Swahili speaker review it.

Learn Swahili with YouTube

Read a video's Swahili captions with your own language underneath, click any line to replay it, and download the bilingual transcript to study offline. Pick videos with creator-uploaded captions for the most accurate text.

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Need transcripts at scale? Use the API

The same transcripts are available through the YouTube Transcript API: timestamped JSON, text, SRT, VTT, CSV, or Markdown, 150+ languages, and AI transcription for videos without captions. Or connect the YouTube MCP server to Claude, Cursor, or Codex and just paste links in chat.

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Common questions

How do I get a Swahili transcript of a YouTube video?

Paste the link above. The tool uses the video's Swahili captions when it has them and translates the transcript into Swahili when it doesn't.

Can I translate an English video into Swahili?

Yes. Any video's transcript can be translated into Swahili. Turn on Show original to read both languages line by line, and download them together as a bilingual SRT or TXT.

Can I download Swahili subtitles?

Yes. After the transcript loads, click SRT or VTT for a Swahili subtitle file with the original timings.

Are Swahili auto-captions accurate?

Swahili videos from Kenya, Tanzania, and across East Africa increasingly have auto-captions. Clear speech with little background noise gives the best results.

Is it free?

Yes. A few videos a day need no account, and signing in with Google raises the limit.