Generate subtitles for your Hindi videos

About Hindi transcription

Hindi (हिन्दी) is written in Devanagari and spoken principally in northern India, and widely as a second language across the subcontinent. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Hindi, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file.

Everyday spoken Hindi borrows heavily from English and from Urdu, often inside a single sentence, and recognition has to follow those switches rather than force everything into one vocabulary. Transcription keeps the Devanagari script; if you want the Roman-script form people write informally, translate to English instead of transcribing.

What a Hindi subtitle file looks like

Four lines as they come out of the exported SRT, in Devanagari with the timings taken from the speech itself.

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,240
सभी को सुप्रभात।

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
आइए पहले सवाल से शुरू करते हैं।

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
आज के लिए इतना ही।

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
अगली बार मिलते हैं।

What people caption in Hindi

The Hindi material that comes through most often is YouTube videos, lectures and coaching classes, interviews and film and serial clips. All of it works the same way — upload the file, check the transcript, export the subtitle track.

Getting a better Hindi transcript

• Set the language to Hindi rather than leaving detection on, particularly for clips under a minute where there is little audio to judge from.
• Upload the highest-quality audio you have; compression artefacts cost more accuracy than most people expect.
• Check proper nouns, place names and numbers first — recognition errors concentrate there.
• Read the transcript before exporting. Hindi subtitles are editable up until you download them.

Hindi subtitles in another language

The same Hindi audio can produce subtitles in any of the 76 supported languages instead of in Hindi itself. English is the most common target, but every pair works, and the translated file keeps the original timings so it drops onto the same video unchanged.