Gujarati audio to text: an honest view
The speech model has much less Gujarati training data than it has for English, Spanish or German, and less than for Hindi. The output is a rough first draft that needs a full review. Expect corrections throughout, and check every name, place and technical term.
One clear speaker near the microphone in a quiet room gives the most usable draft: a talk, a lecture, a pravachan recorded close to the speaker, or someone dictating. Phone calls, family conversations, several people at once, and speech over music or bhajans give much weaker output. For those, the timestamps mainly help you find your place while you type the correct text.
Reviewing a draft is still faster than typing Gujarati from scratch. Play the file, follow the highlighted line, click a line to hear it again and fix it in place. Have important text checked by a Gujarati speaker.
Gujarati, Hindi and auto-detect
Gujarati and Hindi share a lot of vocabulary, and many Gujarati speakers also use Hindi words. If you leave the language on auto-detect, the model can label Gujarati speech as Hindi and write the whole transcript in Devanagari, which is no use if you need Gujarati. Auto-detect can also misjudge short voice notes and recordings that open in English.
This page preselects Gujarati to avoid that. If you get a transcript in Devanagari, check the language setting and run the file again with Gujarati selected. Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi and other Indian languages are separate options in the same list, so pick the one actually spoken.
Gujarati script in the transcript
The transcript is written in Gujarati script (ગુજરાતી લિપિ), which looks like Devanagari without the line along the top. These are the points to check during review.
- Short and long vowel signs, such as િ and ી or ુ and ૂ, are easy to confuse because speech often does not mark the difference.
- The anusvara (ં) for nasal sounds may be missing or added in the wrong place.
- English words may stay in Latin letters or be written in Gujarati script, sometimes both in one file.
- Numbers can appear as Gujarati digits, Western digits or words.
- Regional speech, such as Kathiawadi or Surti forms, may be written closer to standard Gujarati than it was spoken, or misheard.
Gujarati-English mixing and the diaspora
Business and family conversations in Gujarati often mix in English words and phrases, especially among younger speakers and in the diaspora. Common English words come through, though their spelling varies. Choose the language by what dominates the recording. If a call is mostly English with a few Gujarati sentences, choose English for that file.
Gujarati communities in the UK, the US, Canada and East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania) bring a lot of family recordings: grandparents describing life in Gujarat or Africa, wedding and family videos, and phone calls with relatives. Other common uploads are satsang and religious talks, business calls, research interviews, and YouTube videos that need Gujarati subtitles.
Uploading and what to do next
WhatsApp voice notes, phone recordings and MP4 or MOV videos upload as they are, with no conversion step. The transcript is split into paragraphs with timestamps, and the player highlights the current line as it plays. For a long recording, fix the parts you plan to quote or share first, and use the timestamps to come back to the rest later.
TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, VTT and CSV exports keep the Gujarati script as written. To read the content in English, open the Google Translate link on the transcript, or use the AI prompt export to ask ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini for a translation, summary or notes. Speaker labels are available on paid plans or with a Minute Pack. Your files are never used to train AI models.