Translate Video to Hindi

What to expect when translating into Hindi

Hindi translations are written in Devanagari. Everyday Hindi mixes in many English words (Hinglish), while machine translation tends to produce more formal Hindi — technical terms can read as stiff, so consider keeping the English words your audience actually uses.

From English to Hindi

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.

Cost: 800 credits (80¢) with a Hindi voice, or 16 credits (1.6¢) for Hindi subtitles only. English is detected automatically; you only choose Hindi.

The Hindi voice track

Hindi dubbing has a large, established audience — international films and shows are routinely released in Hindi. The Hindi voice suits explainers, courses and product videos.

Voice, MP4, subtitles and transcripts: 800 credits (80¢). Subtitles and transcripts only: 16 credits (1.6¢).

Hindi subtitles

Hindi subtitles need a font with Devanagari support, which every modern phone, browser and player has. Conjunct letters display correctly because the files are plain UTF-8 text.

Hindi (हिन्दी) is written in the Devanagari.

Switch Full translation output off for subtitles only: 12 credits (1.2¢). If the video is already in Hindi, select Hindi as the language instead and the subtitles come back untranslated — see Hindi transcription.

Translating audio files into Hindi

Podcasts and recordings go through the audio translator, which returns a Hindi M4A and transcripts: 1,900 credits ($1.90) with voice, 38 credits (3.8¢) as text only.

Who translates into Hindi

Hindi is spoken in India, and widely understood across North India and the Indian diaspora. It's used by Indian edtech companies and coaching institutes, YouTubers expanding into Hindi, and businesses training staff across India.

Verb gender when the speaker says "I"

Hindi verbs and many adjectives agree with the gender of the subject. "I went" is "मैं गया" from a man and "मैं गई" from a woman, and English gives the translation no clue which one is needed. Machine translation has to guess, and the guess is often masculine. When a woman narrates a video in English and the Hindi version has her saying गया, Hindi-speaking viewers notice at once.

Two things help. Preview the eight stock voices and choose the one that best fits the person on screen; the article on choosing an AI voice covers what else to listen for. Then search the Hindi subtitles for first-person verb endings (गया/गई, रहा/रही, सकता/सकती) and correct them. Corrections to the SRT don't change the dubbed audio, so for a long, first-person narration by a woman, consider whether Hindi subtitles serve the audience better than a dub.

When the speaker addresses viewers, Hindi with आप normally takes masculine plural verb forms ("आप कर सकते हैं"), and most audiences read that as neutral.

Lakh, crore and the rupee sign

India groups large numbers differently: 1,00,000 is one lakh (a hundred thousand) and 1,00,00,000 is one crore (ten million). A Hindi line may say "दस लाख" for "one million", or keep "मिलियन", depending on how the sentence was translated. Both are understandable, but viewers in India think in lakh and crore, so finance, property and salary videos read more naturally with them. Check every large figure against the English transcript, because converting between the two systems by hand is where zeroes go missing; the guide to numbers in transcripts has a method for checking them.

A dollar price stays a dollar price in translation. If you want rupee figures, add them in the subtitles or the video description. Hindi subtitles may also end sentences with the purna viram "।" instead of a period, which is correct Hindi punctuation rather than a display error.

Hindi is not every Indian viewer's language

Of India's many languages, Hindi is the only one mydubly offers. It is widely understood across the north and in the diaspora, but large audiences in states such as Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal and Karnataka watch mostly in their own languages or in English. For a pan-India release, a common pattern is a Hindi dub alongside the original English video with English subtitles, rather than one Hindi version for every region.

Spoken Hindi and Urdu share most everyday grammar, so many Urdu speakers can follow a Hindi dub. The written side differs: Urdu uses a Perso-Arabic script, so Devanagari subtitles won't help Urdu readers, and the formal, Sanskrit-derived vocabulary machine translation tends to choose can drift away from everyday Urdu.

Pricing a Hindi course

A course adds a decision single videos don't have: terminology has to stay identical from lesson to lesson. Each file is translated as its own job, so "formula", "cell" or "pivot table" may come out as a Hindi word in one lesson and stay in English in the next. Make a short glossary after lesson one and check later lessons against it. The online course translation workflow covers the rest of a course release.

Checks before a Hindi upload

• First-person verb endings match the gender of the person speaking.
• Large numbers are in lakh and crore, or consistently in million and billion, never a mix within one video.
• Technical terms are the same in every file of a series.
• Devanagari conjuncts and vowel signs render correctly in the player or editor you will use; some older desktop editors shape Devanagari incorrectly even though phones display it fine.
• Names of people and companies are spelled the way they write themselves in Devanagari, or left in Latin letters if that is how your audience knows them.
• For a pan-Indian audience, decide whether the Hindi dub should sit alongside an English-subtitled version.

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.