Hindi to English audio translator

Because Hindi speaks of a respected person in the plural. In our test, “वे … हार गए थे”, said of one tennis player, came back as “They had recently lost”. When the English says “they”, the Hindi may mean one person spoken of politely.

The same respect is in आप, the polite “you”: English has only “you”, so how formally people addressed each other doesn’t show in the translation. The Hindi transcript, with the same times, keeps it.

By sound. Names written in Devanagari are spelled back into English as they sound, and sometimes wrongly: in our test Raonic came back as “Ronic” and Piquet Jr. as “Picket Junior”. Check every name against the recording before you quote it.

Well enough for the meaning to come through, though Hindi speech into English scored lower than most languages in our test. The transcript makes spelling slips in names and borrowed words, and a word misheard in Hindi is translated as heard.

Hindi puts the verb at the end of the sentence and English near the front. The transcript is translated in batches of neighbouring lines, so a sentence is read whole before it is put into English.

Yes. Copy it into a message, or download a Word file that opens with the recording’s length, “Translated: Hindi → English” and the date, then the English paragraphs with their times. Anyone checking a line can find it in the Hindi by its time.

NoteOwl understands Hindi on your Mac, writes it in Devanagari and keeps up when speakers switch to English mid-sentence. It transcribes with unlimited transcription, labels each speaker and keeps every conversation searchable. For Hindi text only, use Hindi audio to text.