Upload a Sinhala video or audio file, or paste a link, and download timed subtitles in Sinhala 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 Sinhala 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 Sinhala
For a transcript rather than subtitles, see transcribe Sinhala, Sinhala audio to text and Sinhala YouTube video to text. For subtitles from any YouTube link, YouTube to SRT; for any file, the SRT generator.
Captioning Sinhala
Sinhala marks a consonant with no vowel with the al-lakuna (්), and some consonant pairs take joined forms (rakaransaya, yansaya) that depend on an invisible joiner character. A player or font without Sinhala shaping shows them as separate letters with a stray mark. Use a Sinhala font such as Noto Sans Sinhala or Iskoola Pota, and check a cue with a joined form.
Everyday Sri Lankan speech moves between Sinhala, English and sometimes Tamil. Those switches are where the text needs review, and they are the reason to treat the output as a fast first draft.
Sinhala is also diglossic. Written Sinhala, used in news bulletins, official speeches and print, keeps verb agreement and forms that spoken Sinhala drops, so a news reading and a vlog read very differently on screen. A captioner decides which register the cues should show. Sinhala once had its own digits, but modern writing uses Western digits, and a subtitle should too.
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
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. In some countries the free preview is not offered and the box asks for a pack first; the smallest is $6 for 500 minutes.
| Recording | $6 or $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15-minute interview | $0.12 | $0.09 | $0.07 |
| 1-hour bana sermon | $0.48 | $0.36 | $0.29 |
| 2-hour broadcast archive | $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 Sinhala speech is transcribed in Sinhala script; read it through, correct any line, and download SRT or VTT from the transcript.
The editor is not shaping Sinhala, or the font lacks the joined forms. Use a Sinhala font with full shaping and a player with complex-script support.
Yes, with a review pass. Mixed Sinhala, English and Tamil passages are where errors gather.
Follow the recording: news and formal speeches are close to written Sinhala, everyday talk is colloquial. If you need one register for the whole video, edit the cues on the transcript before you download.
We have not published a benchmark figure for Sinhala, so we do not quote one. Test a short file first: the smallest pack is $6 for 500 minutes.
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
Sinhala SRT and VTT from one upload; packs from $6 for 500 minutes, credits never expire.