Uploading a Bosnian video
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.
The transcript then opens beside a player. Click a line to hear it, correct it, and the edit is kept.
Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian
Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian are mutually intelligible, and the model knows the three as separate options. With Bosnian selected the text is in Latin script, the usual choice in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with ijekavian forms such as mlijeko and dijete. Vocabulary can drift toward Croatian or Serbian choices (hljeb, kruh or hleb), so if your text has to follow Bosnian norms, read for those words.
Bosnian speech carries loanwords from Turkish and Arabic, such as sevdah, merhamet or avlija, and religious vocabulary in Islamic talks; check those spellings. Diaspora videos from Germany, Austria, Sweden or the US often mix in German, Swedish or English words. Bosnian is a mid-resource language for the model: clear speech gives a usable draft that needs a careful read.
What Bosnian videos get transcribed
Typical uploads:
- News, interviews and podcasts filmed for YouTube.
- Islamic lectures and khutbas, to share as text.
- Testimonies and oral-history interviews about the war, for archives and research.
- Weddings and family gatherings in Bosnia and in the diaspora.
- Lectures and recorded classes from universities in Sarajevo, Tuzla or Mostar.
Bosnian subtitles and exports
Export SRT or VTT for Bosnian subtitles (titlovi); č, ć, đ, š and ž survive because the files are UTF-8. Edit first, since subtitle lines are built from the corrected transcript.
For documents, export DOCX, PDF or TXT, with or without timestamps. Speaker labels are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
Translation and audio files
The transcript is written in Bosnian 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 Bosnian audio to text page.