A visible fault
Boxes, broken shapes, missing characters. Something is obviously wrong, so it gets fixed before publication.
Marathi subtitle generator
Marathi captions that stay Marathi.
Generate an editable Marathi caption track, then check the places a draft quietly drifts toward Hindi, which shares the script but not the rules.
Same script, different rules
Most caption faults in other South Asian languages come down to a character the tool does not have. A Sindhi letter missing from an Urdu keyboard, a Bengali conjunct a font cannot draw. Marathi has the opposite problem, and it is a subtler one.
Marathi is written in Devanagari, the same script as Hindi. Every character a Marathi caption needs is already there. Nothing is missing, nothing renders wrong, and nothing in the file will ever be flagged.
What differs is underneath the letters. The two languages handle the inherent vowel at the end of a word differently, prefer different nasalization marks, and do not use quite the same set of letters in normal writing. A model weighted toward Hindi, which most Devanagari training data is, applies Hindi's habits to Marathi speech. The output is clean, correctly rendered Devanagari that a Marathi reader recognises as not quite Marathi.
Why this is harder to catch
This fault
Perfectly formed Devanagari that reads slightly wrong to a native speaker. Nothing to flag, so it ships.
What to look for, in order
Start with the letter Marathi uses that standard Hindi does not, a retroflex form that appears constantly in ordinary Marathi words. If a whole draft of Marathi speech contains none of it, that is a strong signal the audio was processed as Hindi, and the rest of the file deserves a slower read.
Then word endings. Hindi and Marathi treat the inherent final vowel differently, and getting it wrong is the single thing that makes Marathi text read stilted to a native speaker while remaining perfectly legible.
Then nasalization marks, where the two languages have different preferences, and then names. Places and people in Maharashtra are routinely misheard by a model expecting Hindi names, and those are what viewers write in to correct.
Keep them as separate tracks
Marathi and Hindi are separate languages that happen to share a script, so a viewer selecting Marathi should get Marathi rather than something close to it. YouTube accepts a subtitle track per language, so both can sit on the same upload; the subtitle track upload guide covers that path. Short-form feeds take no subtitle file, so those need captions rendered into the picture, as the delivery guide explains.
For Hindi and mixed Hindi-English video, use the Hinglish caption generator, and see the script choice guide for the Devanagari and Roman decision. For a map of how each South Asian language fails differently, see South Asian language subtitles.
Marathi subtitle questions
Why do Marathi captions come out looking slightly Hindi?
Because Marathi and Hindi share the Devanagari script exactly, a tool has every character it needs and no reason to flag anything. What differs is the rules underneath: how the inherent vowel at the end of a word is handled, which nasalization mark is preferred, and which letters are in normal use. A model weighted toward Hindi applies Hindi's habits to Marathi speech and produces output that is readable and subtly not Marathi.
Is this the same as a font or encoding problem?
No, and that is what makes it harder to spot. Encoding and font faults produce visible damage, boxes or broken shapes. This produces clean, correctly rendered Devanagari that a Marathi reader recognises as off. Nothing in the file is technically wrong.
What is the quickest tell that a draft drifted toward Hindi?
Search the draft for the retroflex letter that Marathi uses and standard Hindi does not. A genuine stretch of Marathi speech will contain it. A draft with none at all was probably processed as Hindi, and that single absence is faster to check than reading the whole file.
What else should I check?
Three things, in order of how often they are wrong. Word endings first, because the two languages resolve the final inherent vowel differently and the result reads stilted rather than incorrect. Then the nasalization marks, where each language has its own habit. Then names, which a model expecting Hindi mishears constantly in Maharashtra.
Do Marathi and Hindi need separate subtitle tracks?
Yes, always. Sharing an alphabet does not make two languages one, and a viewer who picks Marathi should not be served Hindi. Platforms allow one track per language on a single upload, so there is no cost to doing it properly.
What can I export?
Reviewed Marathi captions export as SRT or VTT subtitle files, plain text, or a captioned video. Keep the subtitle file even when you ship a captioned video, since it is the version you can still correct. Open the caption generator.
Start a Marathi caption track
Transcribe, check the endings and the names, then export SRT, VTT, text, or a captioned video.