Generate Gujarati subtitles for your Telugu videos

From the Telugu script to the Gujarati script

Telugu is written in the Telugu script and Gujarati in the Gujarati script, so the exported file uses a different writing system from the audio that produced it. The subtitle formats handle that — SRT and VTT are plain text and carry any script — but the font in whatever plays the file has to cover it.

This is the most common reason a Gujarati subtitle track looks correct in an editor and shows boxes or blanks on a device. Test on the target platform before you publish a batch.

How Telugu audio becomes Gujarati subtitles

Audio in Telugu (తెలుగు) is transcribed first, then translated into Gujarati (ગુજરાતી). Because the translation runs on the transcript rather than on the audio, the Gujarati subtitle file keeps the timings of the original Telugu speech — each line appears at the moment it was actually said.

Why translate Telugu video into Gujarati

Telugu is spoken principally in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana; Gujarati in Gujarat, in western India, and a large diaspora. A Gujarati subtitle track is what lets one recording reach both audiences without re-recording, re-editing or dubbing it.

Because subtitles are a separate file rather than part of the picture, you can attach several language tracks to the same video and let viewers pick.

About the Telugu audio

Telugu's two main regional varieties — broadly Coastal Andhra and Telangana — differ enough in everyday vocabulary that a listener can place a speaker within a sentence. Transcription records what was said rather than standardising to either.

About the Gujarati subtitles

The Gujarati script is closely related to Devanagari but drops the horizontal line along the top of each word, which is the quickest way to tell the two apart in a subtitle file. Business and trade recordings mix in English terms heavily, and those are transcribed as spoken rather than translated into Gujarati equivalents.

What a Telugu to Gujarati subtitle file looks like

Four lines of Telugu speech, transcribed and translated, as they come out of the exported SRT. The timings are the Telugu speaker's — translation does not move them, which is why the file drops onto the original video unchanged.

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,240
આવવા બદલ બધાનો આભાર.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
ચાલો પહેલા પ્રશ્નથી શરૂઆત કરીએ.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
તમારા પ્રશ્નો નીચે લખો.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
આવતી વખતે મળીએ.

What to check before publishing

• Names and places, which translation handles less reliably than ordinary prose.
• Idiom — a phrase that is natural in Telugu may need loosening to read well in Gujarati.
• That the Gujarati script renders in your player, not just in the editor you exported from.
• Timing on fast exchanges, where two speakers overlap.