Bengali video in, Bangla text out
Drop in the video file without converting it: MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI, 3GP or a screen recording from your phone. The sound is pulled out on our server, and every timestamp points to the same moment in the original video. If the video is online, use Import from link: public YouTube, TikTok and Vimeo videos, Dropbox and Google Drive share links and direct file links all work. Only the audio is fetched, one video per link, and several links can wait in the queue.
Waz, natok episodes and talk shows can run long; long videos are split into parts and processed in parallel, then opened next to a player for checking.
Bangladesh, West Bengal and Banglish
Standard Bangla from Dhaka or Kolkata transcribes best. Regional speech such as Sylheti or Chittagonian is very different from the standard and is often written as the nearest standard words, so treat those videos as rough drafts. Sylheti is common in British Bangladeshi family videos.
Bengali on YouTube is full of English: office, class, problem, whole sentences in a tech review. Those words may come out in Latin letters or in Bangla script, sometimes both in one video. Islamic talks include Arabic phrases that may be written in Bangla script or in Arabic. Bengali is a mid-resource language for the model: clear speech gives a usable draft, but names and religious terms need a careful read.
Bengali videos people transcribe
Common uploads:
- Waz mahfil and other Islamic talks, and Hindu religious discourses.
- Natok scenes, short films and comedy sketches, for subtitles.
- News, talk shows and interviews, for quotes.
- Recorded classes, admission-test coaching and university lectures.
- Family videos from relatives in Bangladesh, India, the UK or the Gulf.
Bangla subtitles and fonts
Export SRT or VTT for Bangla subtitles. YouTube renders Bengali script correctly from the UTF-8 file. If a video editor shows broken conjuncts or boxes, choose a font with full Bengali support, such as Noto Sans Bengali or Hind Siliguri. The danda (।) may be missing in places; add it while editing.
DOCX and PDF keep the script for printing and sharing. Speaker labels for talk shows and interviews are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
Reading it in English
The transcript is written in Bengali as it was spoken; nothing is translated. To read it in English, open the Google Translate link on the transcript, or use the AI prompt export to hand the text to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. For recordings without video, see the Bengali audio to text page.