Hinglish · Roman script
A Hinglish subtitle generator that writes what you actually said.
Roman-script captions for Hindi-English speech — “aaj main aapko ek cheez batane wala hoon”. Transcribed, not translated.
Hinglish captions write mixed Hindi-English speech in Roman script the way it is actually spoken, keeping English words as English instead of pushing them through Devanagari. LumaCaption treats Hinglish as its own output rather than as a transliteration setting, so “meeting” stays “meeting” and not “मीटिंग” spelled back into Latin letters.
Hinglish isn’t a language setting on most tools, which is exactly why most tools break on it. Choose Hindi and everything comes back in Devanagari, including the English half of your sentence. Choose English and the Hindi words come back as nonsense that merely sounds similar. Choose either and some tools quietly translate instead of transcribing — you said one thing on camera and the captions say another.
LumaCaption treats code-switching as normal, because for most urban Indian creators it is. Hinglish is tuned end to end here alongside English and Hindi, so speech that flips between two languages mid-sentence comes back in Roman script, timed word by word, ready to style. Your video file is never uploaded.
Roman script, because that’s how Reels get read
Your audience scrolls past captions in Roman letters. “matlab dekho, simple hai” stays exactly that — not translated into English, not pushed into Devanagari.
Code-switching mid-sentence
One line can carry Hindi grammar and English nouns, the way people actually talk, with both halves transcribed as spoken instead of one being forced into the other.
Transcription, never translation
The captions match the audio. Nobody watching hears one thing and reads a tidied-up version of it.
Devanagari on the same video
Pick Hindi instead and you get real हिंदी script from the same clip. Some audiences read Roman faster, some read Devanagari — decide per video rather than per account.
Why generic models fall apart on code-switching
Most Indian short-form is not Hindi and is not English. It is a sentence that switches script-language mid-clause — “toh basically main aapko ye batana chahta hoon ki ye feature kaafi useful hai” — and a model asked for one language has to make a bad choice on every switch. Ask for Hindi and the English words get transliterated into Devanagari and read as gibberish; ask for English and the Hindi becomes a phonetic guess.
The failure is not accuracy in the usual sense. The words can all be recognised correctly and the output still be wrong, because the *script* decision was made once for a sentence that needed it made word by word.
What LumaCaption does instead
Hinglish is a separate output, not a post-processing pass over Hindi. The transcript comes back in Roman script with English words preserved in their normal English spelling, so the caption reads the way your audience writes in comments and messages — which, for a Hinglish-speaking audience, is faster to read than either pure script.
Choose per video rather than once for the account. Most creators posting to an Indian audience need all three across a week: Hinglish for conversational pieces to camera, Devanagari Hindi where the audience reads Hindi, and English for anything aimed wider.
Spelling is a choice, so read it once
Romanised Hindi has no single correct spelling. “kyunki”, “kyonki” and “kyuki” are all in use, and so are “chahiye” and “chahiye”. Any tool has to pick a convention, and it will not always be yours — this is the one place where a quick read of the transcript before export earns its time.
Editing is per word rather than per line, so fixing a spelling convention is a few taps and it re-flows nothing: the timings belong to the words and stay attached to them. Proper nouns are the other thing worth scanning, for the same reason they are in every language.
The same sentence, three ways
| Output | What you get |
|---|---|
| Hinglish | Roman script, English words kept as English — closest to how it was said |
| Hindi | Native Devanagari throughout, including the English words |
| English | English only — the Hindi will be approximated |
All 340 styles, all subtitle downloads and every export option are identical across the three.
How it works
Upload and choose Hinglish
Set the spoken language before transcribing rather than leaving it to auto-detect — mixed speech is precisely the case auto-detect gets wrong.
Read it back
A Roman-script transcript, timed word by word. Romanised spelling has no single standard, so tap any word and spell it your way — the timing doesn’t move.
Style and export
Any of the 290+ styles, including 47 full-frame kinetic typography scenes. Burned-in MP4 for Reels, or SRT/VTT/TXT if you need the file.
Common questions
How is this different from your Hindi caption page?
The Hindi page is for speech that should be written in Devanagari — आज मैं आपको बताने वाला हूँ. This page is for speech that mixes Hindi and English and should be written in Roman letters — “aaj main aapko batane wala hoon”. Same video, two very different-looking captions. Pick whichever your audience reads without thinking.
Why do generic caption tools mangle Hinglish?
They pick one language per file and commit to it. Set Hindi and the English words get transliterated into Devanagari; set English and the Hindi words get guessed at from sound alone. Neither expects a sentence to change language halfway through, which is what Hinglish does in almost every line.
Will it spell romanised words the way I do?
Roman Hindi has no agreed spelling — “kyun”, “kyu” and “kyon” are all in circulation. LumaCaption writes the common form, and every word stays editable, so if your channel spells things a particular way you tap and retype. Word timing is unaffected by changing the text.
What does Hinglish captioning cost?
The free plan includes 20 minutes of Candy Lite and 5 minutes of premium Candy Ultra each month. Ultra is where Hinglish is sharpest, since mixed speech is exactly what a general model fumbles. Exports are free and unlimited on every plan, so restyling and re-rendering never spends a minute.
