How to add Nepali and Hindi captions to a video correctly
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Use a tool that detects language per phrase rather than per file, and pick romanized letters if your audience reads Hindi or Nepali in Latin script online. The most common failure is a tool choosing one language for the whole video and converting the other into plausible-sounding words in the wrong language.
If you talk the way a lot of the world actually talks — a sentence of English, a phrase of Nepali, a Hindi punchline — most caption tools fall apart. They lock onto the majority language and turn everything else into confident nonsense. TailorClip was built to keep up with how you really speak.
Language is detected span by span
Instead of guessing one language for the whole video, TailorClip figures out the language span by span. So a clip that flips between English and Nepali (or Hindi, Spanish, Tagalog, Chinese, and more) gets captioned correctly across the switch — not garbled the moment you leave English.
Three ways to show non-English speech
- ✦Romanized (default) — non-English words in readable Latin letters with word-by-word karaoke timing, so a global audience can read along even if they can't read the script.
- ✦Native script — proper Devanagari and other scripts, rendered correctly, when your audience reads the language.
- ✦Translated — English captions over the original audio, for reach.
It's one choice per video, switchable in a tap — the same line shown romanized, in script, or translated.
It learns your spelling
Romanization is personal — you might write it "chhaina" where someone else writes "chaina." When you correct a word in the transcript, TailorClip remembers your preferred spelling and uses it next time. Your captions end up looking like you wrote them, because you did.
Everything else still works, in any language
Word-level karaoke highlights, editable titles, the taste profile, smart reframe, music that ducks under your voice — none of it is English-only. Whatever language you speak, you get a finished 9:16 or 16:9 edit with captions that are actually right.
Frequently asked
Why are my Nepali or Hindi auto-captions completely wrong?
Almost always because the tool assigned one language to the entire file. Once that choice is made, speech in the other language is forced through the wrong model and comes out as the nearest-sounding words rather than as a visible error, which is why it reads as confident nonsense.
Should Hindi captions use Devanagari or Latin letters?
It depends on the audience. Viewers who read and type Hindi in Latin letters online generally read romanized captions faster on a phone, while native Devanagari is better for audiences comfortable with the script and for long-form video.
How do I stop captions from misspelling names and places?
Correct them once in the transcript rather than accepting them each time. Proper nouns are the hardest words for any transcription system because they carry little surrounding context, so a tool that remembers your corrected spelling saves the most repeated effort.