Translate English Video to Hindi

What you get back

• A Hindi transcript next to the original English transcript, plus a timestamped version.
• Hindi subtitles as SRT and VTT files.
• With Full translation output on: a Hindi voice track in which each person (up to 8) speaks in a copy of their own voice, the translated audio as M4A, and an MP4 that keeps your original picture, music and effects.
• English is detected automatically. The tool above is already set to Hindi, so you only drop in the file.

English to Hindi at a glance

English to Hindi is one of the fastest-growing localisation paths for Indian audiences. The translation leans formal; for tech, finance and education content, consider restoring the English terms your audience uses in everyday Hinglish.

Indian audiences are used to English terms mixed into Hindi, especially for technology, finance and education. A fully formal Hindi translation can sound bookish next to everyday speech, so review key terms and decide which should stay in English — 'software', 'loan' or 'exam' are often clearer than their formal Hindi equivalents.

The translation is written in Devanagari. If your audience reads Hindi in Latin letters (Romanised Hindi on social media), the subtitles won't match that habit, but the voice track works for everyone.

How the Hindi talks to your viewers

Every Hindi sentence that addresses the viewer has to pick a "you": आप (respectful), तुम (familiar) or तू (intimate). English gives no hint, so the translation normally chooses आप, which suits teachers, brands and companies. A creator whose English is casual and jokey may find the Hindi version more polite than they are. That isn't wrong, but it changes the personality of the video.

Imperatives follow the same choice: "click here" becomes "यहाँ क्लिक करें" in the polite form. If your channel speaks to its audience as तुम, the subtitles can be edited line by line, but the dubbed audio keeps the wording of the translation, so decide before you publish whether the polite register works for your channel.

Hindi takes longer to say

For the same idea, Hindi usually needs more syllables than English: postpositions, auxiliary verbs (रहा है, सकते हैं) and polite verb endings all add length. In the dub every line is placed where the English line was spoken and sped up by at most 1.15× when it needs room, so the Hindi voice stays in step with the picture. Fast English narration with no pauses is where Hindi sounds rushed.

• Pauses between sentences give the Hindi room; a presenter who breathes between points dubs better than one who never stops.
• Dense slide-by-slide explainers dub better if you trim filler ("so, basically, what we're going to do") from the English edit first.
• Lists of numbers and terms, such as specs or prices, take the longest in Hindi; listen to those passages in the preview.

The article on text expansion in translation explains why some language pairs grow and how translators handle it.

Words your audience already says in English

In tech, finance and education, Hindi speakers use English terms every day: "software update", "EMI", "interest rate", "chapter", "exam". Machine translation tends to reach for formal Hindi (ब्याज दर for interest rate), which is correct but can sound like a textbook. For subtitles, replace those terms with the English word your viewers use. For a dub, test a short clip with a few viewers from your audience; if the vocabulary feels stiff, Hindi subtitles under the English original can be the better format for that audience.

Who dubs English video into Hindi

YouTube creators

A Hindi audio track for an English channel, uploaded as an extra audio language in YouTube Studio where available, or published as a separate Hindi video

Edtech and coaching

English explainers and lessons dubbed for students who learn better in Hindi

Companies in India

Onboarding, safety and product training for teams whose first language is Hindi

Software and consumer brands

Product demos and how-to videos for customers in Hindi-speaking states

For a channel, YouTube multi-language audio explains how an extra audio track works and who has access to it.

Hindi dub or Hindi subtitles?

Hindi subtitles cost 1 credit per minute and keep the original speaker's English, which many urban viewers prefer. A dub costs 50 credits per minute and reaches people who would rather listen than read. Dubbed films and shows are a familiar format for Hindi audiences, so a dubbed explainer doesn't feel unusual. The subtitles vs dubbing guide has a fuller decision list.

Costed examples

Cost: 800 credits (80¢) for the Hindi dub, which includes the subtitles and both transcripts, or 16 credits (1.6¢) for Hindi subtitles and transcripts without a voice.

Cost: 700 credits (70¢) for the Hindi dub, which includes the subtitles and both transcripts, or 14 credits (1.4¢) for Hindi subtitles and transcripts without a voice.

Cost: 300 credits (30¢) for the Hindi dub, which includes the subtitles and both transcripts, or 6 credits (0.6¢) for Hindi subtitles and transcripts without a voice.

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 translated video that keeps your music and effects, the translated audio as M4A, a transcript and subtitles (SRT and VTT). Every output, step and limit is explained on the video translator page.