Hindi voice to text, free

Hindi voice typing on a phone keyboard stops every time you pause, and fixing its mistakes in Devanagari takes longer than typing. Here you record the whole thing in one go, or upload a voice note someone already sent you, and get a clean paragraph back.

Everyday Hindi is full of English words: order, delivery, payment, visit. Spoken inside a Hindi sentence, they are usually written in Devanagari too (ऑर्डर, डिलीवरी), which is how most Hindi readers expect to see them.

How to use it

1. Pick the language that is spoken (Hindi is already selected), or leave it on Auto-detect.
2. Press Record and speak, or Choose audio file to open a voice note you saved. Recording stops by itself after 30 seconds.
3. Press Convert to text. The text appears in the box below, ready to copy.
4. Need it in English? Press Translate to English. The same recording is translated.

Tips for Hindi

• Choose Hindi rather than Auto-detect for short clips: a few seconds of Hindi and Marathi can sound alike, and picking the language removes the guesswork.
• Nuqta sounds (ज़, फ़) may come back with or without the dot depending on how they are spoken; both spellings are read the same way.
• For names of shops or people, say them slowly once. Unusual names are the words most likely to need a quick fix.
• Need the meaning for someone who does not read Hindi? Press Translate to English and the same recording is translated, not re-typed.

What the text looks like

आज मैंने तीन दुकानों पर विज़िट किया और बीस डिब्बों का ऑर्डर मिला।

“Today I visited three shops and got an order for twenty boxes.”