Captions in Tanglish
Tanglish captions, beautifully done.
Tamil captions in English letters, with curated fonts, colors, and motion that look designed before you touch a single setting.
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A style for your story
Curated fonts, color, and motion
From spoken words to styled captions
How to add Tanglish captions
01 / Upload
Start with your video
Open the editor and upload the video you want to caption. Choose Tanglish for transcription.
02 / Make it yours
Review and choose a style
Review the generated words, correct the details, and choose a caption style that fits your story.
03 / Share
Export your captioned video
Preview the timing and placement, then export your video with the captions included.
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Tanglish
தமிழ்
For Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts
Transcription and timing
Cloud AI transcribes Tamil speech with word-level timestamps, then the app transliterates each Tamil word into Roman script while keeping the English words your speech already contains.
Getting the script right
Tanglish is Tamil written in Roman letters, produced from a Tamil-script transcript by automatic transliteration.
Beautiful by default
The right words. A look that's yours.
Keep it clean
Let the words do the talking.
Make a statement
Bold type for your biggest moments.
Give words presence
Emphasis that brings your story to life.
Style examples shown in English. Choose a font that supports your video's language.
Why Tanglish Beats Tamil Script on Reels
Tamil speakers read Tamil script fluently on paper and far more slowly on a phone screen moving at reel speed. That is why creators type Tanglish everywhere: comments, captions, WhatsApp, video titles. A line like "enna panra, romba nalla irukku" reads instantly to anyone who speaks the language, while the same sentence set in Tamil script asks a scrolling viewer to slow down and decode conjuncts at small sizes.
Most caption tools give you one of two bad outcomes. Either they transcribe Tamil into Tamil script and leave you to retype every word by hand, or they mishear Tamil as English and produce nonsense that looks like a broken keyboard. VideoCaptions.AI does the thing creators actually want: it hears Tamil, writes Tamil, then converts that Tamil into the Roman spellings people type, with the timing of every single word preserved.
How Roman Tamil Captions Are Produced
The pipeline runs in two stages, and keeping them separate is what makes the result accurate. First, cloud AI transcribes your audio as Tamil, in Tamil script, with a start and end time on every word. Transcribing straight to Roman letters sounds simpler and is much worse, because the model then has to guess at spelling while it is still guessing at sound.
Second, each Tamil word is transliterated into Roman script. This step knows the rules that trip up generic tools: Tamil has no aspirated consonants, the same letter is voiced or unvoiced depending on where it sits in the word, and ழ becomes zh. English words already in your speech, like railway or station or WhatsApp, are left exactly as they are rather than being spelled out phonetically. Word-level timing survives the whole conversion, so nothing drifts, and every word stays editable afterward.
Styling Tanglish Captions That Hold Attention
Because Tanglish captions are Roman text, the entire design system applies to them with nothing held back. Every font in the catalog, every color and gradient, every animated effect, and every template works the same way it does for English. This is the part a Tamil-only caption tool cannot offer: Tamil script has a handful of usable faces, while Roman Tamil opens the whole library.
Karaoke highlighting suits Tanglish particularly well, because it lights each word as it is spoken and keeps fast conversational Tamil easy to follow. Flash drops a whole hook line at once for the opening seconds. Build reveals word by word for storytelling. Spotlight lets you size or color the one word a line turns on. Everything renders in your browser, only the audio track is uploaded for transcription and then deleted, and you export a clean MP4 with no watermark on any plan.
What is Tanglish?
Tanglish is Tamil written in Roman letters instead of Tamil script, often mixed with English words. It is how most Tamil speakers type online, and it is far faster to read on a phone than Tamil script at caption size.
Will my captions come out in Tamil script or Roman letters?
Both are available and you pick before transcription. Roman is the default for Tamil, which produces Tanglish. Choosing Tamil script instead keeps the original தமிழ் text and switches the project to a font that ships Tamil glyphs.
Does it keep the English words I already say?
Yes. Words already spoken in English, such as railway, station, or office, stay in English rather than being respelled phonetically. Only the Tamil words are converted, which is what keeps a naturally code-switched sentence readable.
Can I fix a spelling I do not like?
Every word is editable in the visual editor after transcription. You can respell, split, or merge any word, and the word-level timing stays attached, so correcting a spelling never shifts your caption timing or animation.
Which caption style works best for Tanglish reels?
Karaoke highlighting works best for conversational Tamil because it marks each word as it is spoken. Flash suits a bold opening hook line, and Build suits storytelling. Spotlight emphasizes the one word in a line that carries the point.
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