Telugu video to text
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.
When processing finishes, the draft opens beside a player. Click a line to hear it, type the fix, and move to the next one.
Tenglish, dialects and the draft
Telugu videos are full of English: tech talk, college slang and whole phrases. These words may be written in English letters or in Telugu script, and the same word can appear both ways in one transcript. Telangana and Andhra speech, and the Rayalaseema accent, are all recognised, though dialect words drift towards standard spellings.
Telugu has less training data than Hindi, and the draft needs real editing: long words split wrongly, vowel signs on the wrong consonant, names misheard. A clear speaker with a good microphone gives a usable starting point that is still faster to fix than typing from nothing.
Telugu videos people transcribe
Common uploads:
- YouTube interviews, film reviews and vlogs, for subtitles.
- Political speeches and news clips, for quotes.
- Devotional talks and pravachanams, to share as text.
- Recorded classes and coaching videos, for notes.
- Family videos filmed by Telugu families in the US and the Gulf.
Telugu subtitles
Export SRT or VTT once the draft is corrected. The files are UTF-8; YouTube displays Telugu correctly, and if an older editor shows boxes or broken conjuncts, choose a font with full Telugu support such as Noto Sans Telugu. Tollywood songs over loud music are hard to recognise, so plan to retype lyrics. DOCX and PDF keep the script for printing.
Speakers, English and the audio page
Speaker labels for interviews and panel discussions are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack. Rename a speaker once and every line updates, which helps with long talk-show style videos where two hosts and a guest take turns.
The transcript stays in Telugu; 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 Telugu audio to text page.