How a Georgian video gets transcribed
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.
When processing ends, the transcript appears beside the player. Click a line to replay it and correct it in place.
Script, consonants and Russian
The text is in Mkhedruli, the Georgian alphabet, which has no capital letters. Georgian has long consonant clusters and ejective sounds (ტ, კ, პ, ყ, წ, ჭ) that the model sometimes confuses with their plain pairs (თ, ქ, ფ, ც, ჩ). Those are the letters to watch while reviewing.
Older speakers and many videos from Tbilisi mix in Russian words; younger speakers and tech content mix in English. Those may come out in Cyrillic or Latin letters, or transliterated into Georgian. Megrelian and Svan are separate languages and are not supported; videos in them will produce a poor Georgian-looking draft. Georgian is a lower-resource language for the model: clear speech gives a usable draft that needs a careful read.
Georgian videos people transcribe
Typical uploads:
- News, political talk shows and interviews, for quotes and monitoring.
- Sermons and talks from the Georgian Orthodox Church.
- Supra toasts and family celebrations, to keep the words.
- University lectures and online lessons.
- YouTube and TikTok videos that need Georgian captions.
Georgian subtitles and fonts
Export SRT or VTT for Georgian subtitles. YouTube shows Mkhedruli from the UTF-8 file. In desktop editors, pick a font that covers Georgian, such as Noto Sans Georgian or BPG fonts, if you see boxes. Edit the transcript first; subtitle lines follow it.
DOCX and PDF keep the script for printing. Speaker labels are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
Translation and audio-only files
The transcript is written in Georgian 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 Georgian audio to text page.