# Caption languages

> Captions in English, Indian and world languages: in each language's own script, in Latin letters like Hinglish and Tanglish, or translated.

Captions can be written in 51 languages: English, 14 Indian languages and 36 languages of the world. Speech that mixes in English words, as many people do, is handled too: the English words stay in English.

## Choose a language

In the **Captions** panel, the **Language** box is type-to-find. Type *“Tel”* for Telugu, *“pinyin”* for Chinese or *“hinglish”* for Hindi. It lists **Auto (from the voice)** and **English**, then **Indian languages**, then **World languages**.

**Auto** works out the language from the voice. If you know the language, choosing it first helps the recogniser.

## Choose how it’s written

**Write in** offers, depending on the language:

| Choice | What you get |
| --- | --- |
| **Its own script** | The words as heard, in the language’s script: Devanagari for Hindi, Tamil script for Tamil, Arabic script for Arabic. |
| **Latin letters** | The spelling people type on their phones: Hinglish, Tanglish, Telugish, Pinyin, Romaji and so on. |
| **Translate to …** | The captions translated, phrase by phrase, into any other language on the list. |

With **Auto**, Indian languages are written in Latin letters by default, and other languages in their own script.

**Change your mind at any time.** Changing the language or the writing rewrites the captions at once from what was already heard, without listening again. Words you fixed are kept where the two writings match. One **Undo** takes it back.

## Indian languages

| Language | In its own script | In Latin letters |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Assamese** | অসমীয়া | Yes |
| **Bengali** | বাংলা | Banglish |
| **Gujarati** | ગુજરાતી | Gujlish |
| **Hindi** | हिन्दी | Hinglish |
| **Kannada** | ಕನ್ನಡ | Kanglish |
| **Malayalam** | മലയാളം | Manglish |
| **Marathi** | मराठी | Yes |
| **Nepali** | नेपाली | Yes |
| **Odia** | ଓଡ଼ିଆ | Yes |
| **Punjabi** | ਪੰਜਾਬੀ | Punglish |
| **Sindhi** | سنڌي | Yes |
| **Tamil** | தமிழ் | Tanglish |
| **Telugu** | తెలుగు | Telugish |
| **Urdu** | اردو | Roman Urdu |

Where the table says *Yes*, Latin letters are offered without a familiar name.

## World languages

-   **Arabic** العربية
-   **Bulgarian** Български
-   **Cantonese** 粵語
-   **Catalan** Català
-   **Chinese (Mandarin)** 中文
-   **Croatian** Hrvatski
-   **Czech** Čeština
-   **Danish** Dansk
-   **Dutch** Nederlands
-   **Filipino** Filipino
-   **Finnish** Suomi
-   **French** Français
-   **German** Deutsch
-   **Greek** Ελληνικά
-   **Hebrew** עברית
-   **Hungarian** Magyar
-   **Indonesian** Bahasa Indonesia
-   **Italian** Italiano
-   **Japanese** 日本語
-   **Korean** 한국어
-   **Malay** Bahasa Melayu
-   **Norwegian** Norsk
-   **Persian** فارسی
-   **Polish** Polski
-   **Portuguese** Português
-   **Romanian** Română
-   **Russian** Русский
-   **Serbian** Српски
-   **Slovak** Slovenčina
-   **Spanish** Español
-   **Swahili** Kiswahili
-   **Swedish** Svenska
-   **Thai** ไทย
-   **Turkish** Türkçe
-   **Ukrainian** Українська
-   **Vietnamese** Tiếng Việt

Languages in another script are offered in Latin letters too, using their usual convention: Pinyin and Jyutping for Chinese, Romaji for Japanese, Revised Romanization for Korean, and so on.

## If the voice doesn’t match

If you choose a language and the voice is heard as another one, your captions are kept and the panel offers **Listen again as …**. Nothing is listened to again until you press it.

> **Tip:** Spoken Urdu is often heard as Hindi, and Odia as Bengali. Choose the language yourself and press **Listen again** to get the right script.

## Cost

The first captions job for a recording is 10 credits, and includes its first writing in Latin letters or a translation. Switching later to another Latin-letter writing or translation is another captions job the first time; going back to a writing already made, or to the language’s own script, is free.

You can see real captions in each language on [muvomi.com/languages](https://muvomi.com/languages).