Getting the video in
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.
When the draft is ready, it plays alongside the video. Click a line to hear it again and type over anything that is wrong.
Kazakh Cyrillic, Russian and the Latin switch
The transcript is written in the Cyrillic alphabet used in Kazakhstan today, including the Kazakh letters ә, ғ, қ, ң, ө, ұ, ү, һ and і. Kazakhstan has announced a move to a Latin alphabet, but the model writes Cyrillic; there is no Latin output.
Kazakh has less training data than Russian, so expect a draft that needs careful correction, with Kazakh-specific letters sometimes replaced by their Russian look-alikes. Code-switching is everywhere: many speakers move between Kazakh and Russian within a sentence, and Russian passages may be written in a mixed way. If a video is mostly Russian, select Russian instead.
Kazakh videos people bring
Common uploads:
- News reports and YouTube interviews, for quotes and articles.
- University lectures and online lessons.
- Recorded Zoom meetings and webinars from work.
- Toi celebrations and family videos, to keep speeches and blessings in writing.
- Your own Instagram, YouTube or TikTok videos, for Kazakh subtitles (upload Instagram videos as files).
Kazakh subtitles and documents
Export SRT or VTT for subtitles; the files are UTF-8 and the special Kazakh letters show in YouTube and current video editors. Older fonts may lack ә or ң, so pick a font with full Cyrillic coverage. DOCX, PDF and TXT keep the text for documents, and CSV gives a row per line.
Accuracy tips and translation
Clear single-speaker video gives the best draft; noisy events and overlapping voices give the roughest. Turn on audio repair for loud rooms. Speaker labels are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
The transcript stays in Kazakh. 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 Kazakh audio to text page.