From video to Marathi draft
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 next to the player. Click any line to replay it and correct the text; the editor saves as you go.
Marathi, Hindi and English in the same video
Marathi is written in Devanagari, the same script as Hindi, with letters like ळ that Hindi does not use. Because the model knows Hindi much better, auto-detect can label a Marathi video as Hindi and the draft can slide into Hindi words or spellings. Keep Marathi selected; it is preselected on this page for that reason.
Expect a draft that needs a careful read rather than a finished text: verb endings, long compound words and names are the usual fixes. Mumbai and Pune speech mixes in a lot of English and Hindi, and those words may come out in Devanagari or in Latin letters. Regional speech from Vidarbha, Marathwada or the Konkan coast is transcribed with lower accuracy than standard Pune Marathi.
Marathi videos people transcribe
Typical uploads:
- News channel clips and political speeches, for quotes.
- Kirtan and pravachan recordings.
- MPSC and school exam-prep lectures, for notes.
- Your own YouTube videos and Instagram reels (uploaded as files), for Marathi subtitles.
Marathi subtitles
Export SRT or VTT after editing. YouTube displays Devanagari correctly from the UTF-8 file; in desktop editors, use a Devanagari font such as Noto Sans Devanagari or Mukta so conjuncts render properly. DOCX and PDF are there for written copies, and CSV for a row per line.
Accuracy tips and English
A close microphone and no background music help most; turn on audio repair for crowd noise at rallies or events. Speaker labels are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
The transcript stays in Marathi. 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 Marathi audio to text page.