Tamil video to transcript
Drop in the video file without converting it: MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI, 3GP or a screen recording from your phone. The audio is pulled out on our server, so every timestamp still points to the right moment in the video. If the video is online, choose Import from link and paste a public link from YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, Dropbox or Google Drive, or a direct link to the file; only the sound is downloaded.
The transcript opens next to the player and follows playback line by line. Click a line to jump there and correct it; edits save on their own.
Spoken Tamil, written Tamil and Tanglish
Tamil is strongly diglossic. News, speeches and lectures use formal written Tamil, while films, vlogs and interviews use spoken Tamil, which shortens and changes words (வந்துட்டான் rather than வந்துவிட்டான்). The draft may write either form, sometimes both in one video. For subtitles the spoken form usually reads better; for a document, standardise while you review.
English words appear in almost every Tanglish sentence and may come out in English letters or Tamil script. Speech from Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia is recognised with the same setting, with more fixes for local vocabulary.
Tamil videos people bring
Common uploads:
- YouTube interviews, film reviews and vlogs, for subtitles.
- Political speeches and news clips, for quotes.
- Temple discourses and religious talks, to share as text.
- Recorded classes and lectures, for notes.
- Family videos filmed by the diaspora in Canada, the UK and Singapore.
Tamil subtitles
Export SRT or VTT for Tamil subtitles. The files are UTF-8; YouTube displays them correctly, and most modern editors do too. If vowel signs appear detached or as boxes, choose a font with full Tamil support such as Noto Sans Tamil. Film songs with heavy music are hard to transcribe word for word, so expect to retype lyrics. DOCX and PDF keep the script for printing.
Accuracy and English
Tamil has less training data than the major European languages. Clear speech gives a usable draft that needs a careful read; long agglutinated words, names and fast film dialogue are the common errors. Speaker labels are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
The transcript stays in Tamil; there is no built-in translation. 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 audio-only recordings, see the Tamil audio to text page.