Transcribe Nepali audio with WhisperAI
WhisperAI transcribes Nepali (नेपाली) audio for the around 30 million speakers who use the language across Nepal, parts of India (especially Sikkim and Darjeeling), and the Nepali diaspora. Built on OpenAI Whisper and tuned for the realities of Nepali speech, the service produces publication-grade transcripts in Devanagari.
Who actually needs Nepali transcription
Nepali demand comes from Nepali media in Kathmandu, NGO documentation in Nepal, Nepali-diaspora community work, and academic Himalayan-studies.
Dialects and varieties handled
- Standard Nepali (Kathmandu)
- Eastern Nepali
- Western Nepali
Nepali Devanagari and Nepali-English code-switching
Nepali shares Devanagari with Hindi and Marathi but is a distinct language with its own vocabulary and grammar. Whisper handles Nepali as a separate language and the Nepali-English code-switching common in Kathmandu professional contexts.
Standard Kathmandu Nepali and the major regional varieties are supported.
How Nepali speakers actually use WhisperAI
- Nepali mediaKathmandu-based Nepali newspapers and broadcasters transcribe interviews for publication.
- Nepal NGO documentationInternational and Nepali NGOs transcribe Nepali field interviews for reporting.
- Nepali-diaspora community workNepali community organisations in the US, UK and Gulf transcribe oral histories.
- Nepali academic interviewsUniversities transcribe Nepali qualitative research with native Devanagari preservation.
What Nepali transcripts include
Native Devanagari
Output in Devanagari with all diacritics, tone marks, special characters and script-specific conventions preserved — never transliteration.
Speaker labels
Diarisation that separates and labels speakers in Nepali interviews, panels and multi-party meetings.
Timestamps and SRT
Word-level timestamps and SRT subtitle export for Nepali video captioning, with proper line-breaking for the script.
Editor and exports
In-browser editor with PDF, DOCX, TXT and SRT exports. Edit the transcript without leaving the browser, then download the format your downstream workflow expects.
How to transcribe Nepali audio
Upload your Nepali recording
Drop in MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4 or similar — files up to 5GB. Long-form Nepali interviews, lectures and meetings work without splitting.
Whisper transcribes the audio
The model recognises Nepali speech across the dialects above and outputs Devanagari. Code-switched English and other languages in the same recording are handled inline.
Edit, label and export
Open the transcript in the editor, fix any names or terms, label speakers, and export to PDF, DOCX, TXT or SRT. Optional AI summary surfaces the key points and decisions.
Transcribe in 100+ languages
WhisperAI supports Nepali alongside over 100 other languages with the same accuracy and editor experience.
Other widely-used pages: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Hindi, Italian, and 80+ more languages including Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Malay, Filipino and beyond.
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