Upload a Urdu video or audio file, or paste a link, and download timed subtitles in Perso-Arabic script, right to left: 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 Urdu 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 Urdu
For a transcript rather than subtitles, see transcribe Urdu, Urdu audio to text and Urdu YouTube video to text. For subtitles from any YouTube link, YouTube to SRT; for any file, the SRT generator.
Captioning Urdu
Urdu readers expect Nastaliq, the sloping, stacked calligraphic style used in Urdu newspapers and books. Most video players and editors fall back to a Naskh font, the upright style used for Arabic, which every Urdu reader can read but which looks foreign. The text in the file is the same either way. For subtitles that look like Urdu, set a Nastaliq font such as Noto Nastaliq Urdu or Jameel Noori Nastaleeq in your editor, and allow extra line height: Nastaliq is taller than Naskh.
Urdu runs right to left, and numbers or English words inside a line run left to right. The file stores reading order and the player lays it out, so punctuation that jumps to the wrong end in an old editor is a rendering problem; YouTube, VLC and browsers handle it.
Delivery
<track> element with srclang="ur". How to attach it.Before you rely on it
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 vlog | $0.12 | $0.09 | $0.07 |
| 1-hour bayan | $0.48 | $0.36 | $0.29 |
| 3-hour mushaira | $1.44 | $1.08 | $0.86 |
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 Urdu speech is transcribed in Perso-Arabic script, right to left; read it through, correct any line, and download SRT or VTT from the transcript.
The player or editor is using a Naskh font. Set a Nastaliq font such as Noto Nastaliq Urdu and the same text appears in the style Urdu readers expect.
Yes. Mixed Hindi-Urdu speech comes back in Urdu script.
Yes. Poetry recitation and bayans transcribe well when the audio is clean; review names and Arabic or Persian quotations.
We have not published a benchmark figure for Urdu, 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
Urdu SRT and VTT from one upload; packs from $6 for 500 minutes, credits never expire.