Hindi auto captions: Devanagari, Hinglish and Hindi to English

Devanagari, Hinglish or English: which Hindi captions do you need?

Pick the script your viewers read before you transcribe anything. Devanagari suits viewers who read Hindi script. Hinglish in Roman letters suits speakers who switch between Hindi and English mid-sentence. Translated English subtitles reach people who don't speak Hindi.

We make mouzeclick, so the Studio steps on this page are ours. The Adobe, CapCut and Whisper details come from their own pages, checked on 3 November 2026.

With Hinglish in Studio, English words in the speech stay in English. Each Hindi word gets a single spelling throughout the transcript, so the same word doesn't appear three different ways in one video. Our guide to Hinglish captions in Premiere Pro goes deeper on that choice.

Can Premiere Pro make Hindi auto captions on its own?

Premiere has its own Speech to Text. The Adobe pages we checked don't publish its language list, though, so open the language menu in your version before you plan a Hindi job around it.

Here is what Adobe does publish:

• Its help page covers generating transcripts and adding captions with Speech to Text in Premiere on desktop.
• The product page says Text-Based Editing transcribes video on import, and you build a rough cut by copying and pasting text.
• Captions can be translated in 18 languages. The page doesn't say which 18.
• Adobe Premiere Pro is now called Adobe Premiere, the name for the desktop and mobile apps together.

On Adobe's US page on 3 November 2026, the single-app plan started at US$22.99/mo, annual, billed monthly. That price is for the first year only and for new subscribers only. There is no perpetual licence. The free trial works on Windows and macOS. There is no charge until it ends, and you can cancel up to 14 days after for a full refund.

Before you commit a Hindi project to Premiere's own tools, run a one-minute clip through the trial or your own copy. For a side-by-side of Adobe's captions against Whisper on your own PC, see auto captions in Premiere Pro, word by word.

How do I make Hindi auto captions in Premiere Pro with mouzeclick Studio?

Install mouzeclick on Windows, add the Premiere bridge, open mouzeclick Studio and pick Hindi or Hinglish under Captions › Language. Whisper writes the captions on your computer. This part runs on Windows 10 and 11 only.

1. Start the free trial: 3 days, no card. The key and download links arrive by email. Install the app and paste the key. There is no driver.
2. On the app's Tool wheel page, press Install Premiere bridge, then restart Premiere Pro. Keep mouzeclick running while you work.
3. In Premiere, open mouzeclick Studio from Window › Extensions and go to the Captions tab.
4. Under Language, pick Hindi for Devanagari script, or Hinglish (Roman letters) for mixed speech. Automatic detection is also in the list, next to 47 languages.
5. Pick a model: Fast (60 MB), Accurate (190 MB) or Best (574 MB). Each downloads once. Hinglish uses Accurate.
6. Run the transcription. Check the underlined words before anything reaches the timeline (see the fixing section below).
7. Choose the output. Premiere's own caption track comes as Subtitles, Short, Social or Word by word, editable in Premiere. Styled on the video gives you 289 looks in 27 families. Save as .srt if you also want a subtitle file.

After a model downloads, your audio never leaves the machine. The app itself still needs an internet connection while it runs, because the licence and profiles live in your account. Every caption option is listed on the Studio feature page, and setup for all the panels is on the extensions page.

How do I turn Hindi speech into English captions?

Use a translate step, not a plain transcription. In Studio that is Translate to English. In Whisper's command line it is --task translate with a multilingual model.

Whisper's README is specific here:

• The turbo model is an optimized large-v3 and the command-line default. It is not trained for translation.
• For translation, use a multilingual model: tiny, base, small, medium or large. Medium or large give the best results.
• The README's example is whisper japanese.wav --model medium --language Japanese --task translate. Swap in your file and language.

Other tools handle it differently. Adobe says Premiere translates captions in 18 languages. CapCut says generated captions can be translated automatically into another language. Neither page lists the languages.

In mouzeclick, the Windows-only workspaces translate too. The Premiere Pro workspace's Caption studio translates to English offline. In the After Effects workspace, the larger models translate to English offline. For a two-language release, one approach is to burn in Hindi or Hinglish captions and keep an English .srt beside the export.

Is there a free Hindi auto caption generator?

A couple of routes cost nothing. CapCut says its web caption feature is free, and Whisper's code and model weights are MIT-licensed. Neither page we checked names Hindi, so test a short clip before you commit a long edit.

CapCut desktop, step by step

1. Open CapCut desktop, start a New Project and click Import.
2. Drag the footage onto the timeline.
3. Open the Text tab in the top menu bar and choose Auto captions in the sidebar.
4. Set the source language, then click Create.
5. To export, click the blue Export button at the top right and set the title, resolution and codec. Make sure Video exporting is ticked, then click Export again.

CapCut doesn't publish whether desktop auto captions need Pro. Our CapCut auto captions guide covers the free-or-Pro question in more detail.

Whisper on the command line

The README's basic command is whisper audio.flac audio.mp3 audio.wav --model turbo, and whisper --help lists every option. For non-English speech, add --language with the language name; the full list is in tokenizer.py. The README says performance varies widely by language, so proofread. For more tools side by side, see the best auto caption generators.

How do I fix wrong words in Hindi captions?

Fix them in the transcript, before they reach the timeline. Correcting caption clips one by one on the timeline is the slow way.

Studio's Captions tab gives you these tools:

• Unsure words are underlined, so you know where to look first.
• Click a caption to jump to that moment, and double-click to correct it.
• Replace all fixes every copy of a word at once.
• Remember this fix carries the correction into every new transcript. Use it for a guest's name, a brand or a city that keeps coming out wrong.
• Spell right is there too, and you can save the result as .srt.

Because Hinglish gives each word one spelling, Replace all has a single form of each word to search for.

If the speaker restarts sentences, deal with that first. Retakes (Windows only) reads the transcript, strikes through every restarted sentence and keeps the last take. Captions made afterwards still line up. The Premiere Pro retake remover guide walks through it.

Which fonts and caption styles work for Devanagari?

Use a font that has Devanagari letters. Studio's own caption fonts include Hind, Mukta and Noto Sans Devanagari, and it can also use every font on your computer.

For the look, start with the Indian & multilingual family. Its Hindi styles include Desi pop and Devanagari bounce. Across the 289 looks you also get:

• word motions such as Pop, Bounce, Drop in, Zoom in, Typewriter and Wipe
• effects such as 3D depth, neon tube and hard shadow
• boxes, keywords drawn bigger, and emoji

Styled captions are drawn as pictures, timed to the words, on a video track above everything. That has two consequences:

• Premiere needs none of the fonts. That helps when you hand the project to an editor whose machine has no Devanagari font installed.
• Because they are pictures, you can't retype the text in Premiere afterwards. The pictures go into their own bin, and one button takes the last set off the timeline. If you expect late text changes, use the caption track output instead.

For more on boxes, fonts and karaoke looks, read Premiere Pro caption styles. For the bold, word-at-a-time look, see Alex Hormozi style captions.

Why are my Hindi auto captions wrong or missing?

Most bad Hindi captions come from the wrong language setting, the wrong model or a panel that isn't connected. Check these in order:

1. Wrong script. Hindi gives Devanagari and Hinglish gives Roman letters. If you know the language, set it yourself rather than relying on automatic detection.
2. Mixed speech in Devanagari. If the speaker uses many English words, switch to Hinglish (Roman letters).
3. Too many misheard words. Move from Fast (60 MB) to Accurate (190 MB) or Best (574 MB). Whisper's README describes its model sizes as a trade between speed and accuracy.
4. No Captions tab. Studio captions are Windows only, so a Mac won't show them. On Windows, check that the Premiere bridge is installed, that you restarted Premiere, and that mouzeclick is running.
5. App not working. mouzeclick needs an internet connection while it runs. The speech models themselves run offline once downloaded.
6. English translation is poor. If you run Whisper yourself, don't translate with turbo. Use medium or large.
7. Workspace models asking for permission. In the Premiere Pro workspace (Windows), the two models for Indian languages may first ask you to accept their publisher's access terms.

For Premiere-side problems, such as captions not showing or tracks not exporting, see Premiere Pro captions not working.

Can I make Hindi auto captions on a Mac?

Not with mouzeclick. Studio captions, Hinglish, Retakes and the two workspaces are Windows only, and the Mac app does not include them.

On a Mac (macOS 12 or newer, Apple Silicon or Intel), mouzeclick still gives you:

• the mouse app, with per-app buttons, gestures and the three wheels
• Studio's Silence, Timeline and Guides tabs
• the Toolbar and Search effects
• the 22 extensions

Installing takes four steps, covered in installing mouzeclick on a Mac.

For Hindi captions on a Mac, CapCut desktop lists macOS 10.14 or above, and Adobe's Premiere trial works on macOS. Whisper's README doesn't publish an official Mac or Windows support statement, only the Python versions it was tested with.

Where mouzeclick fits (we make it)

mouzeclick fits if you edit in Premiere Pro on Windows and want Hindi, Hinglish and English captions without uploading audio. It is one plan: $25 a month, $249 a year, or $499 once for one of the first 100 lifetime keys. Plans are on the pricing section.

The workspaces add two more caption tools, both Windows only:

• The Premiere Pro workspace's Caption studio has 40 language options, Hinglish among them, and 8 models.
• The After Effects workspace's Caption studio has 101 language options and 8 engines, from about 420 MB to about 4 GB. Whisper Large V3 Turbo is the default. It outputs styled caption layers, subtitle layers from an SRT, or JSON. See After Effects auto captions and the workspace overview.

Other tools are the better pick in some cases:

• On a Mac, use CapCut desktop, or Premiere's own Speech to Text once you've checked its language menu covers Hindi.
• If you already pay for Premiere and its language menu covers what you need, there is nothing extra to install.
• If you want a free browser tool, CapCut Web is the simpler start.
• If you are comfortable in Python and want full control of Whisper's model choice, the command line costs nothing.

Questions people ask

Sources

Checked on 2026-11-03. Prices and features change: each link goes to the maker's own page.

1. Adobe Premiere product page (price, name change, translation in 18 languages)
2. Adobe Creative Cloud plans: Adobe Premiere price
3. Adobe Premiere free trial: platforms and refund
4. Adobe help: Speech to Text in Premiere
5. OpenAI Whisper on GitHub (models, translation, licence)
6. CapCut: add subtitles to video (desktop steps, SRT, translation)
7. CapCut: AI caption generator (CapCut Web is free)
8. CapCut desktop video editor (system requirements)

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