Adding your Kannada video
Drop in the video file unchanged: MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI, M4V, 3GP or a phone screen recording. The sound track is pulled out on the server, so there is no convert-to-MP3 step, and every timestamp still matches the picture. If the video is online, paste its public link under Import from link: YouTube, Shorts, TikTok, public Vimeo, Dropbox or Google Drive share links, or a direct link to a video file. Only the audio is downloaded. Playlists and channels are refused, so queue videos one link at a time, and sign-in-only posts such as Instagram need to be downloaded and uploaded.
The draft opens with a synced player. Clicking a line replays it, so checking a word means listening to just that moment instead of scrubbing through the video.
Kannada script and Kanglish
Output is in Kannada script with its vowel signs and conjunct consonants. The model has much less Kannada than Hindi or English behind it, so treat the result as a first draft: expect wrong vowel lengths, split or merged words, and names that need fixing. Slow, clear speech gives the best start.
Bengaluru speech in particular mixes English freely, often whole phrases, and some videos switch into Tamil, Telugu or Hindi. English words may appear in Kannada letters or in English; decide on one style while editing. Regional speech from north Karnataka or the coast differs from the Mysuru-Bengaluru standard and may come out less accurately.
Kannada videos people transcribe
Typical sources:
- Kannada news channel clips and YouTube interviews, for quotes.
- Classroom lectures and exam-prep videos, for written notes.
- Devotional talks and pravachana recordings.
- Film and web-series dialogue clips, and your own YouTube videos for subtitles.
- Interviews recorded for research projects and dissertations at Karnataka universities.
Kannada subtitles
Export SRT or VTT once the text is corrected. Files are UTF-8, and YouTube shows Kannada correctly. In desktop editors, choose a font with Kannada support, such as Noto Sans Kannada, or conjuncts may display as separate pieces. DOCX and PDF keep the text for documents.
Improving results and translation
Turn on audio repair for crowd noise, and avoid songs or background music under speech. Speaker labels for interviews and debates are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack. Long videos are split into parts that run in parallel, so a ten-minute clip usually takes a minute or two, which leaves time for a proper listen-through.
The transcript stays in Kannada. For an English reading, open the Google Translate link on the transcript, or use the AI prompt export to hand the text to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. For audio-only recordings, see the Kannada audio to text page.