Speech to text · मराठी
Upload a voice note, a call recording or a video and get Marathi text back. It is free for files up to 2 minutes without an account (3 files a day); longer files need a free account. Download the result as text, Word or subtitles. The transcript keeps Marathi grammar rather than sliding into Hindi, in Devanagari, with English words written in Devanagari too.
Upload a voice note, call recording or video in Marathi, or record yourself. Free up to 2 minutes a file, 3 files a day, no account.
Upload MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC, AMR, a WhatsApp voice note (.opus or .ogg) or an MP4 or MOV video, or record up to 2 minutes from your microphone. Switch between Devanagari, Roman script and an English translation (made by Vyas, our language model, when you open the tab), then copy the text or download TXT or DOCX, plus SRT subtitles for uploaded files. No account needed for files up to 2 minutes, 3 a day.
Drop in an audio or video file and get Marathi text back in Devanagari. It reads MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC and AMR audio, WhatsApp voice notes (.opus and .ogg) and MP4 or MOV video, and the file is decoded on our server, so it works the same on an iPhone. You can also record from your microphone. There is no language menu: Valmiki STT, the speech recognition model behind it, works out that the speech is Marathi, including English words in the middle of a sentence.
Copy the transcript, or download it as a TXT file or a Word document. For an uploaded file you also get an SRT subtitle file to load into YouTube Studio or a video editor. Long recordings after sign-up cost $0.00525 per minute of audio, billed by the second, the same for every language.
Real transcripts
Each clip was rendered by Pāṇini TTS and streamed to Valmiki STT twice: as a clean recording and as an 8 kHz phone-quality copy. The transcripts are shown exactly as they came back, errors included. Tested 24 October 2026. These are synthetic clips, not recorded calls.
Same transcript in both phone-quality runs.
The clean run wrote the time as 10:00.
No public benchmark includes Valmiki STT, so we do not publish a table comparing it with other services. Judge it on audio like yours instead. Play each clip above and compare what was said with what came back, word by word. Then upload a recording of your own that is close to what you will really transcribe: the same kind of phone line or microphone, the same speakers, the same mix of Marathi and English. Count the words that changed meaning, not the spelling variants, and try the 8 kHz case if your audio comes from calls.
About Marathi
Marathi and Hindi share Devanagari and many words, so a transcriber that guesses Hindi quietly rewrites Marathi. In every run of our test clip, Valmiki STT kept the Marathi sentence (मला उद्या ... मिळेल का?) and wrote the English word appointment in Devanagari as अपॉइंटमेंट.
Times can come back either way: दहा वाजता (at ten o'clock) stayed a word in both phone-quality runs and became 10:00 वाजता on the clean recording. Small grammar slips happened too: डॉक्टरांची came back as डॉक्टरची or डॉक्टरांशी.
Dialects and mixing
Our test sentence is standard Pune and Mumbai Marathi. Varhadi in Vidarbha, Ahirani in Khandesh and Malvani on the Konkan coast change verb endings and everyday words, and Valmiki STT treats all of them as Marathi; we have not tested them. If your callers are from one region, test their recordings.
Mumbai speech pulls Hindi and English into Marathi all the time (मला ते confirm करायचंय). Valmiki STT detects the switch without a setting, but because the two languages share a script, a sentence that is half Hindi can come back spelled the Hindi way. Check names and rare words on your own audio.
Use cases
Voice notes from family, a society secretary or a supplier. Upload the .opus file and read the Marathi, or open the English tab to pass it on.
Marathi kirtans, farming advice channels, cooking and news. For your own channel, download the MP4 from YouTube Studio and use the SRT file as a start on Marathi captions.
Gram sabha and society meetings, interviews and research recordings in Marathi. Upload parts of up to 10 minutes after a free sign-up and download a Word file.
Clinic and service bookings in Maharashtra, where the caller gives a date and time. Read what was booked from the text instead of replaying the call.
Voice typing
Voice typing is a different job from transcribing a file: you speak and the words appear as you go. Sonex Labs has no voice-typing keyboard or app, so for that, use the tools already on your phone or computer.
1. Android phone (Gboard)
Install Gboard, add Marathi (मराठी) under Languages in its settings, then tap the microphone on the keyboard and speak.
2. iPhone
Add the Marathi keyboard in Settings, then General, Keyboard, Keyboards. If your iPhone offers dictation for Marathi, a microphone key appears on that keyboard.
3. WhatsApp
To type a message by voice, tap the microphone on your keyboard, not the voice-note button in WhatsApp; the keyboard writes the words into the chat box. WhatsApp can also show a transcript under a received voice message in some languages (Settings, then Chats, then Voice message transcripts). If Marathi is not offered there, save the voice note and upload it above.
4. Microsoft Word
Word's Dictate lists Marathi (India) as a preview language, which Microsoft says may be less accurate and add less punctuation.
5. Windows
Windows 11 voice typing lists Marathi. Switch the keyboard input to Marathi (Windows key + Space), press Windows key + H in a text box and speak.
For recordings longer than a minute, use the uploader above.
API
Send a recording to POST /v1/transcribe and read the Marathi text from the reply. There is no language parameter. $0.00525 per minute of audio, billed by the second.
1# pip install requests2import requests34with open("marathi-call.wav", "rb") as audio:5 r = requests.post(6 "https://api.sonexlabs.com/v1/transcribe",7 headers={8 "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",9 "Content-Type": "audio/wav", # audio/mpeg, audio/ogg (WhatsApp notes), audio/mp4 ...10 },11 data=audio,12 )13r.raise_for_status()14result = r.json()15print(result["text"]) # नमस्कार, मला उद्या सकाळी दहा वाजता ...16print(result["duration_seconds"], "seconds of audio")About ₹0.50 a minute (₹29.93 an hour of audio), at exchange rates from open.er-api.com, 25 October 2026. Live streaming, limits and error codes are on the speech to text API page, and plans are on pricing.
FAQ
Yes, for short files. The uploader on this page turns Marathi audio into text with no account for files up to 2 minutes, 3 files a day. For longer files, sign up free and transcribe files of up to 10 minutes and 10 MB each in the dashboard or through the API; that costs $0.00525 a minute, billed by the second, so a 10-minute recording costs about 5.25 US cents.
There is no app to install. The uploader works in the browser on a phone too: open this page on Android or iPhone, pick a voice note, recording or video from your files, and read the Marathi text. For typing by voice as you speak, use your phone keyboard's microphone, as described in the voice-typing steps above.
Yes. It runs in a current browser: Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari on a Windows PC or a Mac, and Safari or Chrome on an iPhone or Android phone. Files are decoded on our server, so an iPhone voice memo, a WhatsApp .opus note or a MOV video works the same as on a PC. There is nothing to install.
Long-press the voice note in WhatsApp and share or export it to your files; on Android, received voice notes are also kept as .opus files in WhatsApp's media folder. Upload the .opus or .ogg file here and the Marathi text appears. Notes up to 2 minutes need no account.
Upload the audio, then open the English tab above the transcript. Vyas, our language model, translates the Marathi transcript when you open the tab, and you can copy it or download it like the transcript. Check names, amounts and dates against the Marathi text, because a word misheard in Marathi carries into the English.
Yes. The uploader's Roman script tab shows the transcript in English letters, as people type Marathi in chats. The API returns Devanagari, as in every run of our sample.
On our test sentence every run kept Marathi grammar, with one small slip in each (डॉक्टरांची came back as डॉक्टरची or डॉक्टरांशी) and the time written as a word in two runs and as 10:00 in one. That is one sentence, not a benchmark; test recordings like yours.
Without an account, 2 minutes per file and 3 files a day. With a free account, up to 10 minutes and 10 MB per audio file in the dashboard or the API, billed by the second. For anything longer, split the recording into parts of 10 minutes or less and send each one; the API takes the same limit.
Marathi. In every run of our test clip the transcript kept Marathi words and grammar, such as मला, उद्या and मिळेल का. Hindi and Marathi share a script, so check names and rare words on your own audio.
Related
Need the reverse? Turn Marathi text into speech with Pāṇini TTS, free to try without an account.
Answering Marathi phone calls rather than transcribing them? See Marathi voice agents.
Free for files up to 2 minutes without an account. Longer files, with a free account: $0.00525 per minute of audio, billed by the second.