How Hindi speech transcribes
Hindi speech transcribes well into Devanagari. Hinglish — switching between Hindi and English mid-sentence — is very common, and the English words in such speech may come out in Devanagari or in Latin letters.
What a Hindi transcript looks like
Hindi transcripts are written in Devanagari. English words spoken inside Hindi sentences may appear either in Devanagari or in Latin letters, depending on how they're pronounced — search for both spellings when you look for a term.
Examples
A civil-services coaching institute transcribes a 60-minute Hindi lecture video into revision notes.
A journalist in Lucknow turns a 20-minute Hindi phone interview into text.
Costs: 60 credits (6¢) and 20 credits (2¢), including a translated transcript if you select another language. Audio files go in the audio to text workspace.
Devanagari output for readers who type in Roman script
The transcript comes back in Devanagari, the standard script for Hindi, which suits print, official documents and most news use. Many Hindi YouTube audiences, WhatsApp groups and Instagram captions, though, use romanized Hindi ("kya haal hai"). The output isn't romanized, so if your readers expect Roman letters, plan a transliteration step after transcription and check names by hand afterwards. Transliteration changes the letters, not the language; translation versus transliteration explains the difference and the main romanization schemes.
Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible in everyday speech and differ mostly in script and formal vocabulary. If a passage ever appears in Perso-Arabic letters instead of Devanagari, treat it as a language-detection problem rather than a spelling one, since Urdu isn't among the 21 languages mydubly offers. Trimming music or silence from the start so the file opens with clear Hindi speech is worth trying before you rerun it.
Nukta dots and Urdu-origin vocabulary
Everyday Hindi is full of words of Persian and Arabic origin: zindagi, zaroorat, fauj, khwahish. Standard spelling marks their sounds with a nukta dot, but many writers drop it and speakers differ in whether they pronounce those sounds at all. A transcript may therefore contain both forms of the same word. Chandrabindu and anusvara pose a similar choice.
- ज़रूरत / जरूरत
- "need": nukta on za
- फ़िल्म / फिल्म
- "film": nukta on fa
- ख़बर / खबर
- "news": nukta on kha
- हँसी / हंसी
- "laughter": chandrabindu or anusvara
When searching, try both forms. When publishing, choose one convention and apply it across the whole file.
Formal vocabulary and everyday Hindustani
Hindi speakers choose between Sanskrit-derived, Persian-derived and English words for the same idea: विद्यालय, मदरसा or स्कूल; धन्यवाद or शुक्रिया; प्रौद्योगिकी or टेक्नोलॉजी. The transcript records the word that was said, which matters when register carries meaning, as in political speeches, religious discourse or a news anchor's formal Hindi. Rare formal words are also the ones most likely to be misheard, because they are less common in everyday speech, so give long Sanskritised terms a second listen in exam-preparation lectures and official addresses. A translation will often map both registers to the same English word, so register analysis should be done on the Hindi.
Hinglish: making the English words consistent
English words in Hindi speech can surface in either script, so decide the rule before you edit. One workable house style keeps established loanwords in Devanagari (स्कूल, मोबाइल, ऑफ़िस) and uses Latin letters only for brand names, acronyms and code (iPhone, GST, UPI). List the English terms that recur in your video, search for each in both scripts, and unify them. When a guest answers at length in English, that stretch will be English text; check that any short Hindi reply in the middle of it is still in Devanagari. Mixed-language videos covers why language switches confuse automatic detection.
Lakh, crore and digit grouping
Hindi and Indian English count large amounts in lakhs (1,00,000) and crores (1,00,00,000). Check how amounts appear in your transcript: as words (पाँच लाख), as digits with Indian grouping, or as digits with Western grouping (500,000). For budgets, vote counts and prices, listen to every figure and standardise. Hindi also has a distinct, irregular word for every number up to a hundred (उनचास for 49, इक्यावन for 51), and speakers often switch to English for numbers mid-sentence, which is one more reason to listen rather than skim.
Example: a 35-minute Hinglish phone review
The creator uploads a 35-minute MP4 with Hindi narration and English spec terms throughout. Transcript mode with Hindi selected costs 35 credits (3.5¢) and yields Hindi SRT and VTT for the upload; a second run with English as the target, another 35 credits, gives English subtitles for viewers outside India. Before publishing, the editor writes camera, battery and processor in Devanagari everywhere and keeps model names in Latin letters.
Devanagari subtitles need a font that renders conjuncts and vowel signs correctly. Modern platforms generally do, but test the file in the player your audience uses; the guide to adding subtitles to a video covers uploading the SRT.
Using the tool on this page
- The spoken language is detected automatically; you select the output language — the spoken language itself for an untranslated transcript, or another language for a translation. Files can be up to 2 hours long.
- Only the audio is sent for processing — the video stays on your device — and audio and text are deleted within 30 minutes of delivery (how files are protected).
- You can download a timestamped transcript, subtitles (SRT and VTT) and plain text. Every output, step and limit is explained on the video to text page.
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Frequently asked questions
Can it transcribe Hinglish?
Yes. Mixed Hindi–English speech is transcribed, but the English words may appear in Devanagari in some places and Latin letters in others. Tidy them up if you need a consistent transcript.
What happens to Bhojpuri or Punjabi lines in a Hindi video?
Hindi is the only Indian language mydubly works with. Lines in another Indian language are likely to come out as approximate Hindi or be mistranscribed, so note their timestamps and have a speaker of that language fill them in.
Can I get the Hindi transcript in Roman letters?
Not directly; the text is in Devanagari. Run it through a transliteration tool afterwards and check personal and place names by hand, because automatic schemes spell them inconsistently.
Should I keep subtitles in Hindi or translate them?
Select Hindi as the language for Hindi subtitles; they come back untranslated. If you pick English, the SRT and VTT come back in English instead, so for both versions run the file twice at 1 credit per minute each time.