Convert Malay speech to text with high accuracy, low latency, and enterprise-grade scalability. Deepgram delivers real-time and batch transcription through a developer-first speech-to-text API.
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Get real-time Malay speech-to-text in under 300 ms while maintaining high accuracy in noisy, accented, or overlapping conversations.

Speakers: 33 million native speakers
Regions: Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore, parts of Thailand and southern Philippines
Dialects: Northern dialect (Bahasa Malaysia), Southern dialect (basis for Indonesian), Riau Malay, Sumatra varieties, Borneo/Kalimantan varieties, Banjarese
Writing system: Latin alphabet (Rumi script), historically Jawi (Arabic-based script)
Language family: Austronesian language family, Malayo-Polynesian branch
Malay is widely used across Southeast Asia as both a native language and lingua franca, making it a key language for call center analytics, customer support AI, media captioning, healthcare voice documentation, multilingual voice agents, and e-learning platforms across Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Brunei.

Deepgram includes everything required to produce accurate, readable, and secure Malay transcripts out of the box.
Automatically detect and label who is speaking in multi-speaker Malay conversations.
Apply automatic capitalization, paragraphing, and clean transcript structure for Malay text.
Instantly find words or phrases inside long Malay recordings without reprocessing audio.
Segment streaming Malay audio into real-time sentence-level units for voice agents.
Add accurate punctuation and capitalization to Malay transcripts for easy reading.
Automatically remove sensitive data like credit cards, phone numbers, and PII from Malay transcripts.

Keyterm prompting for Malay
Boost recognition of brand names, product terms, and domain-specific vocabulary in Malay audio to improve keyword recall and transcript accuracy.

Automatic language detection
Identify when audio is spoken in Malay and transcribe it without pre-selecting a language. For mixed-language datasets, sources, and batch transcription pipelines.
Start with Malay speech-to-text, then expand to 45+ languages using the same API, models, and tooling.
Start transcribing Malay audio with Deepgram's speech to text API. It is fast, accurate, and built for real-time applications.