Upload a Kannada video or audio file, or paste a link, and download timed subtitles in Kannada script: SRT for YouTube and video editors, VTT for web players.
How it works
Drop a file, or paste a public link from YouTube, Google Drive or a podcast feed. Files over 500 MB continue on the upload page, up to 10 hours or 5 GB.
Read the first Kannada cues against the audio. Correct a line on the transcript and the subtitle file carries the correction.
SRT for YouTube Studio and video editors, VTT for web players. TXT, DOCX and JSON come from the same transcript.
What to expect with Kannada
For a transcript rather than subtitles, see transcribe Kannada, Kannada audio to text and Kannada YouTube video to text. For subtitles from any YouTube link, YouTube to SRT; for any file, the SRT generator.
Captioning Kannada
Kannada writes the second consonant of a cluster as a small subscript form under the first (ottakshara), and an r before a consonant can appear as the arkavattu after it. A player or font without Kannada shaping draws those as full letters in a row, and the cue looks broken. Pick a font that covers Kannada, such as Noto Sans Kannada or Tunga on Windows, and check a dense cue on screen.
Kannada script is tall, with marks above and below each letter, so leave line spacing generous and keep cues to two short lines.
Spoken and written Kannada differ in their verb endings. A lecture or a news reading stays close to the written standard, while everyday Bengaluru speech shortens the forms: written ಮಾಡುತ್ತೇನೆ (I will do) is said ಮಾಡ್ತೀನಿ. A captioner has to choose which the cue should show, so settle that in the first few cues and hold it across the video.
Delivery
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Each cue is a phrase from the transcript with its start and end time. Most run a few seconds. A passage spoken without a pause can come out as one long cue of up to about half a minute, so split those in your editor if your platform wants two short lines at a time.
Cue times are taken from the recording itself, so the file lines up with the video or audio you uploaded. If you trim the start of the video afterwards, shift the cues by the same amount in your editor.
Open the transcript, correct a misheard name or number on its line, and the SRT and VTT you download carry the correction with the timing unchanged.
You get the subtitle file. Fonts, colours, position and captions drawn into the picture are done in your video editor or player, which reads this file.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per recording. The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; larger ones continue on the upload page. 99+ languages, detected automatically.
Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters. The cues in the subtitle file carry the words and their timing only.
Pricing
The preview is free. When the full transcript needs a pack, one-time packs are $6 for 500 minutes, $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, which comes to about $0.29 to $0.72 per hour of audio.
| Recording | $6 or $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15-minute YouTube video | $0.12 | $0.09 | $0.07 |
| 1-hour startup meeting | $0.48 | $0.36 | $0.29 |
| 2-hour pravachana | $0.96 | $0.72 | $0.58 |
Figures are the share of a pack each recording uses. A button opens secure checkout for that pack. Every export format is included; full details on the pricing page.
FAQ
Upload the video or paste its link in the box on this page. The Kannada speech is transcribed in Kannada script; read it through, correct any line, and download SRT or VTT from the transcript.
The editor or font is not shaping Kannada. Use a font such as Noto Sans Kannada and an editor with complex-script support.
That is a captioning choice. Lectures and news are close to written Kannada; casual speech uses shortened colloquial forms. Pick one register for the video and correct the cues on the transcript before you download.
No. The scripts look alike but are separate in Unicode, and a Telugu-only font shows Kannada text as boxes. Use Noto Sans Kannada or Tunga.
We have not published a benchmark figure for Kannada, so we do not quote one. Judge it on your own recording: the free preview (first 20 minutes free) shows the text before you pay.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. Files over 500 MB continue on the upload page rather than in the box on this page.
Every page in this set uses the same upload box and the same export. All subtitle pages
First 20 minutes free. Kannada SRT and VTT from one upload; packs from $6 for 500 minutes.