Uploading a Hausa 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.
Tafsir sessions and long films are split into parts and processed in parallel; the draft then opens next to the player.
A candid note on accuracy
Hausa is widely spoken across northern Nigeria, Niger and West Africa, but the model saw little of it during training. Expect a rough draft with many corrections, particularly in films with music, lively crowds or several speakers. Slow, clear speech from one person is where it works best. A timed draft is still a head start over typing an hour of video.
The transcript is in boko, the Latin-based spelling. Hausa's hooked letters ɓ, ɗ and ƙ, and ʼy, are often written as plain b, d, k and y in the draft, and tone and vowel length are not marked. Ajami (Arabic-script Hausa) is not produced. Arabic phrases in religious talks and English words in news and business may come out in their own spelling.
Hausa videos people transcribe
Common uploads:
- Tafsir, wa'azi and other Islamic lectures.
- Kannywood film scenes and series, for subtitles.
- News and interviews from Hausa-language broadcasters on YouTube.
- Health and community-information videos.
- Family videos and recorded lessons.
Hausa subtitles
Export SRT or VTT for Hausa subtitles. If you add ɓ, ɗ and ƙ while editing, the UTF-8 files keep them; most modern fonts include those letters. Subtitle lines come from the edited transcript.
DOCX and PDF suit printed transcripts. Speaker labels are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
Reading it in English
Correct the Hausa first, including names and Arabic religious terms, because a translation can only follow the text it is given.
The transcript is written in Hausa 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 Hausa audio to text page.