How to add Hinglish captions to Reels and Shorts

#What Hinglish captions are

Hinglish captions show Hindi speech in Roman (English) letters instead of Devanagari. "मैं ठीक हूँ" becomes "main theek hoon". It's the spelling most Indian creators and their viewers type every day on Instagram, WhatsApp and YouTube, so it reads faster for many people than Devanagari does.

Mixed speech is normal: most Hindi-speaking creators drop English words into every sentence. With Hinglish (Roman), the Hindi words are written in English letters and the English words are kept as they are, so a line like "yeh feature bahut useful hai" reads naturally.

#Make Hinglish captions, step by step

1. 1Create an account, pick a plan and open New reel.
2. 2Upload your video.
3. 3Open Speech language and choose Hinglish (Roman). The form confirms: "Hindi words are written in English letters."
4. 4Pick a caption style and click Make my reel.
5. 5Read through the captions in the Captions tab and fix any spelling you'd write differently. Find & replace changes a word everywhere at once.
6. 6Click Export to download the MP4, or download the captions as an SRT file.

#How Vireeli writes Hindi in English letters

Speech recognition writes Hindi in Devanagari. For Hinglish, an AI model then transliterates each Devanagari word on its own into the casual Roman spelling creators use. It never translates, never merges or splits words and never drops any, so every word keeps the exact timing it had, and the word-by-word highlight stays in sync with your voice.

• Words already in English letters, such as English words, names and numbers, are left unchanged.
• Words are lowercase, except names and words that were already capitalised.
• The Hindi full stop (।) becomes a normal full stop.

#Fix spellings to match how you write

Hinglish has no single correct spelling: "accha", "acha" and "achha" are all common. If you prefer another spelling, click the word in the Captions tab and type it your way, or use Find & replace for a word that comes up often. Your channel's name and product names are worth checking every time.

If whole sentences look wrong, the audio may be noisy or the speech mostly in another language. Remove background noise in the Audio tab, or use Optimize in the Captions tab to transcribe the video again. More in how to fix wrong words in auto captions.

#Caption tips for Hinglish reels

• Show 2 to 4 words at a time. Romanised Hindi words are longer than English ones, and short chunks are easier to read at a glance.
• Highlight the key word of each line in a second colour. Vireeli picks key words for you; change them by clicking a word.
• Keep captions out of the bottom fifth of the frame, where Instagram and YouTube put their buttons and your caption text. See safe zones.
• Use a bold style with an outline or a box so captions stay readable on busy backgrounds. Browse them in caption styles.

#Questions and answers