About Transcribe Bangla Audio
This page is set up for Bangla: the spoken language is Bangla and the larger Whisper base model (77 MB) is selected. It is free, needs no sign-up and runs in your browser, so nothing you enter is uploaded.
Whisper can transcribe Bangla, but the tiny and base sizes used here are small, and Bangla is a language with far less training audio than English. Expect wrong words, merged words and mistakes with names and numbers. Clear audio, one speaker and little noise help a lot.
Treat the output as a rough draft that saves typing, not as a finished transcript. You can also turn on Translate to English to get an English version of Bangla speech, which is often easier to check against what you know was said. Audio stays on your device; only the model downloads from Hugging Face.
How to use Transcribe Bangla Audio
- Choose Audio or video file, or Microphone.
- For a file, drop it on the box, tap to choose it, or paste it. For the microphone, press Start recording and Stop recording when you are done.
- Pick the model (Tiny or Base), the spoken language, and turn on Translate to English if you want English text.
- Press Download model, confirm, and wait for it to load. This is needed once per visit; your browser may keep the file.
- Press Transcribe. Long audio takes longer than short audio, and a computer with WebGPU is faster than a phone.
- Read the transcript, then switch between Text, SRT and VTT and press Copy or Download.
Features
- Whisper tiny and base, multilingual, in your browser.
- Microphone recording, or any audio or video file your browser can decode.
- Language choice including Bangla, English, Hindi, Arabic, Urdu and more, or automatic detection.
- Translate to English with the Whisper translate task.
- Timestamps for every phrase, shown in the list.
- Export as TXT, SRT subtitles or WebVTT.
- Long audio in 30 second windows with a 5 second overlap, up to 60 minutes.
- Model size and licence shown before the download, with a confirm step.
Privacy: how it works
- Your audio and video are decoded and transcribed in your browser. They are never uploaded to Ulkaa or to anyone else, and a microphone recording stays in the tab.
- One download is needed: the Whisper model files come from Hugging Face the first time you confirm. That request does not include your audio.
Tips
- Record close to the microphone in a quiet room. Clean audio changes the result more than the model choice.
- Set the spoken language when you know it. Automatic detection can guess wrong on short clips.
- Use Base if you can wait a little longer and the audio is not English.
- For subtitles, check the timing against the video, because the timestamps are per phrase, not per word.
Frequently asked questions
Is it really free?
Yes. There is no price, no trial and no credit card. Ulkaa Tool does the work with your own device, so there is no server bill to pass on to you.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no sign-up and no login. Open the page and use it. An Ulkaa account is not needed for anything on this tool.
Does it run in my browser?
Yes. Your audio are processed by code running in your browser tab, on your own device.
Is my data uploaded?
No. Your audio are never sent to Ulkaa or to anyone else. You can check this yourself by watching the Network tab in your browser developer tools while you use the tool.
How accurate is Bangla transcription?
Limited. The tiny and base Whisper models make many mistakes in Bangla, so always check the text against the audio.
Should I use tiny or base for Bangla?
Base. It is larger (77 MB) and does better on Bangla than tiny, at the cost of a slower run.
Can it write the Bangla in English?
Turn on Translate to English to get English text from Bangla speech. It is a translation, not a spelling in Latin letters.
More Speech to Text Online pages
- Speech to Text OnlineTranscribe a recording, a video or your microphone with Whisper, then save the text or subtitles.
- Audio to Text ConverterDrop an audio file and get a transcript with timestamps.
- Video to Text ConverterChoose a video and transcribe what is said in it.
- Voice to Text OnlineRecord your voice and turn it into text.
- Speech to Text With Subtitles (SRT)Transcribe a recording and download it as SRT or VTT subtitles.