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Hindi captions in Devanagari or Roman letters
Captik transcribes Hindi speech and times every word to your voice. Show it in Devanagari for viewers who read Hindi, in Roman letters the way people type in chats, or as an English translation.
Free to try, no card. Any video, any size.
सुबह की चाय के साथ शुरू करते हैं
“Let’s start with morning tea.”
How Devanagari looks on screen
Devanagari letters hang from a horizontal headline, the shirorekha, which joins the letters of a word into one shape. Vowel signs sit above, below and beside the consonant they belong to, and a virama folds two consonants into one narrower conjunct. A caption therefore needs real shaping, not just a font with the letters in it, and it needs a little more room above and below the line than Latin text does.
In the width table Captik fits every line with, measured in Chrome on the caption fonts, one Hindi letter takes 0.79 em against 0.59 em for a Latin one. The sample line on this page comes out at 0.79 of the width as the same line in Roman letters.
Noto Sans Devanagari is the default. The Text tab also lists 21: Teko, Google Sans, Kalam, Baloo 2, Yatra One, Modak, Sarpanch, Tillana, Mukta, Hind, Rajdhani, Khula, Biryani, Palanquin Dark, Anek Devanagari, Rozha One, Eczar, Martel, Noto Serif Devanagari, Amita, Alkatra.
Three ways to write it
सुबह की चाय के साथ शुरू करते हैं
Pure Devanagari. English words you say are written in Devanagari too, so “video” appears as “वीडियो” and the line stays in one script. Suits viewers who read Hindi every day.
Subah ki chai ke saath shuru karte hain
Hindi in Roman letters, the way most people type it on their phones. English words you say stay in English.
Let’s start with morning tea
An English translation of what you said, timed sentence by sentence to your speech.
Worth knowing for Hindi
Do not lean on capitals for emphasis
Devanagari has no capital letters, so templates that shout in caps on Latin text have nothing to shout with. Pick a template whose emphasis comes from size or colour: Captik Glow, Highlighted Word or Aura.
Check the shirorekha at small sizes
A thin font at a small size loses the headline first, and the word stops reading as one shape. If a line looks broken on a phone, raise the size or pick a heavier face before you export.
Decide what happens to English words
Viewers who read Devanagari usually accept वीडियो and टाइम. If your talk is full of technical terms, Roman letters may be easier to read at reel speed, and you can compare both on the same line in the preview here.
Templates that hold Hindi
We drew this page’s sample line through the real caption engine in each template and kept the ones where nothing was cut and the words stayed a readable size. Handwritten and serif templates are built around Latin letters, so they look most like themselves in Roman captions.
- Aura
An editorial lockup: a large feature word, an italic serif and small words around it.
- Seedha Saadha
Heavy white capitals with a thick dark outline that holds up over bright footage.
- Captik Glow
The key word lands in large glowing capitals under a small line of context.
- Highlighted Word
A plain white line with the spoken word picked out in a warm colour.
- Captik Word
One clean row that builds as you speak, the current word brightest.
How to caption a Hindi video
Upload and choose Hindi
Any common video format and any size. Captik times each word to your voice, usually in under a minute.
Choose how to write it
Native Script gives you Devanagari. Romanised (Latin) spells it in Roman letters, and English Translation translates each sentence.
Fix, place and export
Correct any word, pick a template, turn on Safe area and drag the caption clear of what the app covers, then export. The render happens on our servers, so it works from a phone.
Cutting in Premiere Pro, After Effects or DaVinci Resolve? The plugin lists Hindi and puts the captions on your timeline. Check where the caption sits with the safe zone checker.
Hindi captions, answered
Are English words written in Devanagari too?
Yes, with Native Script selected. Captik writes the English words you say in Devanagari as well, so “video” appears as “वीडियो” and the caption stays in one script. If you want English words in English letters, choose Romanised (Latin) instead.
Will the exported video show Hindi correctly?
Hindi captions are drawn in Noto Sans Devanagari in the editor, and the render servers load the same face for the export, so vowel signs and conjuncts land where the preview shows them.
Can I fix a word Captik heard wrong?
Tap it and retype it. You can also drag its timing, recolour it or make it the emphasised word. When you correct a single word, Captik remembers the fix on that device for your later Hindi videos in the same script.
Can I download a Hindi SRT file?
Yes. The SRT is written in the script you chose when you transcribed: Devanagari, Roman letters or English.
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What it costs
Free has every feature, with 2 caption minutes and 10 export minutes every 30 days, and its exports carry a small watermark. When the single video option is on offer at checkout, one video can be made clean for ₹20. A week of Starter is ₹99: 7 days, 9 caption minutes and 13 export minutes, with no watermark.
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