Generate subtitles for your Kazakh videos

About Kazakh transcription

Kazakh (Қазақ тілі) is written in Cyrillic and spoken principally in Kazakhstan. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Kazakh, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file.

Kazakh is transcribed here in Cyrillic, the script in general use, though a Latin orthography is being phased in. It is Turkic and agglutinative, with vowel harmony shaping its endings, and urban recordings switch into Russian often enough that mixed-language passages are normal.

What a Kazakh subtitle file looks like

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

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,240
Бәріңізге қайырлы таң.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Бірінші сұрақтан бастайық.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Мені анық естіп тұрсыздар ма?

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Бүгінге осы.

Line length in Kazakh

Kazakh builds meaning by stacking endings onto a stem, producing few words but long ones. Lines come out dense rather than wordy.

Shorter subtitle blocks read better as a result, and splitting one across two events costs nothing — the timings come from the speech either way.

Getting a better Kazakh transcript

• Set the language to Kazakh 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. Kazakh subtitles are editable up until you download them.

Kazakh subtitles in another language

The same Kazakh audio can produce subtitles in any of the 76 supported languages instead of in Kazakh 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.