Telugu Subtitle Generator

The Telugu script is one of the most beautiful in India and one of the hardest to render. Its rounded letters take conjunct forms when consonants cluster, with secondary forms written below or beside the main letter, and a font without proper shaping draws them as separate pieces or as boxes. The transcript is only half the job; the caption styles here use fonts with full Telugu support so the burned-in text is what a Telugu reader expects.

The language itself is agglutinative. Case, number, tense and person attach to the word as suffixes, and a single Telugu word can express what English needs a phrase for. The audio for two suffixes is often close, and the correct one is chosen from the grammar of the sentence — which is what the model does, and what a phonetic transcriber cannot.

Then there is English, which is part of Telugu as spoken on video. Product names, technical terms and whole phrases are used in English, and the transcript keeps them in Latin script where they occurred rather than producing a Telugu-letter approximation nobody would write. Regional varieties from coastal Andhra to Telangana are handled from the audio, and the export is UTF-8 so the script survives every player.