Transcribe Malagasy audio with WhisperAI
WhisperAI transcribes Malagasy (Malagasy) audio for the around 25 million speakers who use the language across Madagascar. Built on OpenAI Whisper and tuned for the realities of Malagasy speech, the service produces publication-grade transcripts in Latin alphabet.
Who actually needs Malagasy transcription
Malagasy demand comes from Madagascar government and NGO documentation, Malagasy media, and academic Malagasy-studies.
Dialects and varieties handled
- Standard Malagasy (Merina, Antananarivo)
- Coastal dialects (Sakalava, Betsimisaraka, Antaisaka)
Malagasy as an Austronesian language in Africa
Malagasy is an Austronesian language — a relative of Indonesian and Malay — spoken in Africa, with grammar and vocabulary that share nothing with the African languages around it. Generic ASR has very little Malagasy training data. Whisper handles Malagasy on its own terms.
Standard Merina Malagasy and the major coastal dialects are supported.
How Malagasy speakers actually use WhisperAI
- Madagascar government and NGO documentationAntananarivo offices transcribe Malagasy-language meetings and field interviews.
- Malagasy-language mediaMadagascar broadcasters and newspapers transcribe Malagasy interviews.
- Malagasy academic and cultural workUniversities document Malagasy oral histories.
- Malagasy-language podcastsIndependent Malagasy-language podcasters use transcripts.
What Malagasy transcripts include
Native Latin alphabet
Output in Latin alphabet with all diacritics, tone marks, special characters and script-specific conventions preserved — never transliteration.
Speaker labels
Diarisation that separates and labels speakers in Malagasy interviews, panels and multi-party meetings.
Timestamps and SRT
Word-level timestamps and SRT subtitle export for Malagasy video captioning, with proper line-breaking for the script.
Editor and exports
In-browser editor with PDF, DOCX, TXT and SRT exports. Edit the transcript without leaving the browser, then download the format your downstream workflow expects.
How to transcribe Malagasy audio
Upload your Malagasy recording
Drop in MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4 or similar — files up to 5GB. Long-form Malagasy interviews, lectures and meetings work without splitting.
Whisper transcribes the audio
The model recognises Malagasy speech across the dialects above and outputs Latin alphabet. Code-switched English and other languages in the same recording are handled inline.
Edit, label and export
Open the transcript in the editor, fix any names or terms, label speakers, and export to PDF, DOCX, TXT or SRT. Optional AI summary surfaces the key points and decisions.
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WhisperAI supports Malagasy alongside over 100 other languages with the same accuracy and editor experience.
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