Upload a Tamil video or audio file, or paste a link, and download timed subtitles in Tamil 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 Tamil 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 Tamil
For a transcript rather than subtitles, see transcribe Tamil, Tamil audio to text and Tamil YouTube video to text. For subtitles from any YouTube link, YouTube to SRT; for any file, the SRT generator.
Captioning Tamil
Tamil is diglossic: the formal written language and everyday spoken Tamil differ in word endings and vocabulary. News, lectures and devotional talks are close to the written form, and that is where the text is strongest. Fast colloquial speech, the kind in vlogs and film interviews, needs the most correction, and a captioner also has to decide whether the cue should read as spoken or as written Tamil.
The Tamil script marks a vowel-less consonant with a dot above it, the pulli (்), and the dot changes the word. Loanwords from Sanskrit and English use the Grantha letters ஜ, ஷ, ஸ and ஹ. A font that lacks them, or a tool that drops combining marks, produces a cue that looks complete and reads wrong.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-minute vlog | $0.08 | $0.06 | $0.05 |
| 1-hour lecture | $0.48 | $0.36 | $0.29 |
| 2.5-hour devotional recording | $1.20 | $0.90 | $0.72 |
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 Tamil speech is transcribed in Tamil script; read it through, correct any line, and download SRT or VTT from the transcript.
The text follows the speech, and formal speech transcribes best. Colloquial Chennai or film-style Tamil needs a closer review, including any choice you make about written forms.
The pulli (்) is a combining mark. If it disappears, a tool in your chain has dropped combining characters or the font lacks it; the downloaded file is UTF-8 and keeps it.
Sri Lankan and Indian Tamil are both transcribed. Names, place names and dialect words from either are the parts worth checking.
We have not published a benchmark figure for Tamil, 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. Tamil SRT and VTT from one upload; packs from $6 for 500 minutes.