Uploading Burmese 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.
Dhamma talks and long interviews are fine; long videos are split and processed in parallel. The draft opens next to a player for correcting.
Expect a rough draft
Burmese has little training data in the model. Expect many corrections: misheard words, missing spaces or sentence breaks, and names guessed. Slow, clear speech from one speaker, such as a monk giving a talk or a teacher, works best. Correcting a timed draft is still faster than typing from the start, and the timing is ready-made for subtitles.
Burmese is written without spaces between words, so line breaks in the transcript follow pauses in speech rather than grammar. The sentence mark ။ may be missing; add it while editing. English words, common in news and tech videos, may come out in Latin letters.
Unicode, not Zawgyi
The transcript and all exports are in standard Unicode Burmese. Older phones and some readers still use the Zawgyi font encoding, and on those devices Unicode text looks scrambled. If your audience uses Zawgyi, convert the exported text with a Unicode-to-Zawgyi converter. For subtitles in desktop editors, choose a Unicode font that covers Myanmar script, such as Noto Sans Myanmar or Pyidaungsu.
Burmese videos people transcribe
Common uploads:
- Dhamma talks and Buddhist teachings, to share as text.
- News and interviews from Burmese media, often in exile.
- Testimonies recorded for documentation and research.
- Family videos from relatives in Myanmar, Thailand or abroad.
- YouTube and TikTok videos that need Burmese captions.
English and audio-only files
Export SRT or VTT for subtitles and DOCX or PDF for documents. Speaker labels are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
The transcript is written in Burmese 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 Burmese audio to text page.