APPLICATION
Chitralekha
Chitralekha is an open-source tool for video transcription with optional translation support with a focus on Indian languages. With a proliferation of video content, we need tools to transcribe them efficiently and also to make the transcriptions accessible in other languages. And given that transcription and translation tasks are tedious we want to meaningfully support them with open-source AI models.
Features
Import from YouTube
- Chitralekha supports importing videos and optional subtitles from YouTube. It also enables export of the subtitles in standard formats which can be used to update videos on YouTube.
Transcription Support
- Chitralekha supports transcribing the input video with IndicASR for English and 9 Indian languages. This automatically creates timestamped transcription cards which can be edited.
Translation Support
- Chitralekha supports translating the transcription into English and 12 Indian languages supported by IndicTrans.
Transliteration Support
- Chitralekha supports editing the transcriptions both in the source and target language in Roman characters with IndicXlit support.
Partners
NPTEL
- We are working with NPTEL to help their language contributors provide transcriptions for NPTEL's videos on higher education in various Indian languages.
Project BIRD
- We are working with Project BIRD from IIM Ahmedabad to provide same language subtitling for improving literacy in Indian languages.
Chitralekha v1 has been Released Publicly on 28th July