Generate subtitles for your Urdu videos

About Urdu transcription

Urdu (اردو) is written in Perso-Arabic, in the Nastaliq style and spoken principally in Pakistan and northern India. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Urdu, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file. The script runs right to left, which subtitle files carry correctly and mainstream players render without extra setup.

Urdu and Hindi are close to identical in speech and quite different on the page — the same sentence transcribes into Nastaliq here and Devanagari under Hindi. Pick by the script you need the subtitle file in, not by how the audio sounds. Nastaliq is right-to-left, and most players handle it correctly from an SRT without any extra configuration.

What people caption in Urdu

The Urdu material that comes through most often is news and current affairs, dramas, religious lectures and vlogs. All of it works the same way — upload the file, check the transcript, export the subtitle track.

Getting a better Urdu transcript

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

Urdu subtitles in another language

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