Hindi audio to text in Devanagari
With Hindi selected, the transcript is written in Devanagari and split into paragraphs with timestamps. The player highlights each line as it plays, so you can listen and correct at the same pace. There is no option for romanised Hindi output.
Formal Hindi in news clips, lectures and speeches comes out cleanest. Fast conversation, people talking over each other and phone-call audio are harder. Hindi results depend more on clear audio than results for the languages with the most training data. Expect to correct some names, place names and technical terms before you use the text.
Sanskrit-heavy vocabulary in religious or literary talks, and very colloquial regional speech, need the most checking. A practical way to review is to play the file and follow the highlighted line, stopping to fix a word in place when you hear a mismatch.
Hinglish and English words in Hindi speech
Most everyday Hindi includes English words, and many speakers switch whole phrases into English. The transcript handles this, but not always consistently. An English word may come out in Latin letters in one sentence and written in Devanagari in the next, as in "meeting" and मीटिंग. If consistency matters for your document, plan a quick pass to bring those words into one form.
Choose the language by what dominates the recording. If people speak mostly Hindi with English mixed in, keep Hindi. If it is an English call with a few Hindi sentences, choose English for that file. You can pick the language per file, so a batch of mixed recordings can use different settings.
Hindi, Urdu and auto-detect
Everyday spoken Hindi and Urdu are very close. If you leave the language on auto-detect, the model can label Hindi speech as Urdu and write the whole transcript in Urdu script. This page preselects Hindi to avoid that. Auto-detect can also misjudge short voice notes and recordings that open in English.
If you do want Urdu script, choose Urdu in the language picker. Marathi, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu and other Indian languages are separate options in the same list. Pick the one being spoken rather than Hindi.
Recordings people bring
People use Hindi transcription for interviews with family members recorded on a phone, client and vendor calls with teams in India, academic research interviews, religious talks and bhajan introductions, podcasts, and YouTube videos that need Hindi subtitles. Students upload recorded lectures to search and quote them later.
A few habits make a clear difference. Put the phone or microphone close to the person speaking. Turn off the TV or fan if you can. Ask people not to talk over each other in interviews you plan to transcribe. These steps do more for Hindi accuracy than any setting.
You do not need to convert anything first. WhatsApp voice notes, phone recordings in M4A or AMR, and MP4 videos from a phone camera all upload as they are, and the audio is pulled out of video files on our side. For a recording saved in Google Drive or Dropbox, paste the link instead of downloading it.
What to do with the Hindi transcript
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT and CSV keep every Devanagari character. The direct PDF option supports Western European characters only, so for Hindi it opens a print-ready page and you save it as a PDF from your browser. Speaker labels are available on paid plans or with a Minute Pack, which helps with interviews and multi-person calls.
To read the content in English, open the Google Translate link on the transcript. For a summary or a list of action items from a long call, use the AI prompt export and paste the result into ChatGPT or Claude.