
Transcription · Marathi
Marathi transcription services
Native Marathi transcribers for corporate video, eLearning and legal proceedings. Verbatim and clean read, time-coded, with noun gender checked rather than assumed. Part of a full Marathi language service: transcripts, subtitles, voice over, and translation of any content you need.
About Marathi transcription
Where Marathi is spoken and how it is written
Marathi is spoken by around 83 million people (2011, via Wikipedia), and is the official language of the Indian state of Maharashtra, including the Mumbai–Pune business corridor, with sizeable communities across central and southern India. It is written in the Balbodh style of Devanagari, the same script family as Hindi with several letters and conventions of its own.
Standard Marathi, as taught in Maharashtra's schools and used by its courts and broadcasters, sits alongside regional varieties spoken from the Konkan coast to Vidarbha.
At GoLocalise, we work with professional Marathi transcribers who are native speakers, and we manage every step — file intake and brief, transcription, time-coding, formatting and final delivery — so the transcript you receive is accurate to the audio and ready for its intended use.

Choose your format
Three ways to transcribe the same recording
The right one depends on what the transcript is for. If you are not sure, tell us the use case and we will recommend it.
Full verbatim
Every wordCaptures every utterance, pause and non-standard pronunciation exactly as spoken, including false starts and overlap.
Best for
Legal proceedings, research interviews, compliance content
Clean read
EditedRemoves filler words, false starts and repeated phrases for readability, while keeping meaning and speaker intent intact.
Best for
Corporate video, interviews for publication, content to be translated
Summarised
Key pointsCondenses the discussion into structured key points rather than a full record of the conversation.
Best for
Executive briefings, legal summaries, research documentation
What's included
What comes with every Marathi transcript
Marathi, English, or both
A source transcript, an English translation, or the two side by side. The translation is produced from the original audio, not from the transcript alone.
Timecodes
Stamped at the interval you need — per speaker turn, per paragraph or at fixed intervals, matched to your edit or subtitle workflow.
Speaker identification
Every turn attributed, by name where you supply them or by role where you don't — including through overlap.
Proofreading pass
A second native Marathi linguist reads the transcript against the audio before it reaches you.
Terminology kept
Legal, medical or technical vocabulary rendered to the convention your sector uses, not paraphrased.
Your format
Plain text, Word, PDF, SRT, VTT or a client-specific template — tell us the next step.
How it works
One project manager, from brief to delivery
A structured workflow, built so accuracy and confidentiality are verified at each stage rather than assumed at the end.
File intake and brief
We review your audio or video, confirm the transcript type (verbatim, clean read, time-coded), and note any terminology, speaker labels or formatting you need.
Transcriber assignment
We match your content to a native Marathi transcriber with the right background, whether legal, medical, corporate or media.
Transcription and QA
The transcriber works directly from your files. A second linguist reviews the transcript against the audio for accuracy, speaker identification and consistency.
Delivery
Formatted transcripts in your chosen format, whether plain text, SRT, VTT or a client-specific template, on budget and on time.
For multi-speaker research, hearings or archive projects, we assign a coordinated team and agree milestones up front.
Who we work with
Industries that rely on Marathi transcription
A written record is a compliance requirement in some sectors and an accessibility one in others. These are the Marathi briefs we see most.
Legal & compliance
Hearings, depositions and arbitration, transcribed verbatim and formatted to requirement.
Automotive & electronics
Technical briefings, supplier negotiations and training material.
Broadcast & media
Interviews, documentaries and archive footage, with subtitle-ready templates.
Market research
Focus groups and interviews, including sessions with heavy speaker overlap.
Business & shared services
Client calls, process documentation and training material.
Academic & research
Lectures, field interviews and research material.
Confidentiality
Who hears your Marathi audio
Marathi transcription often means board material from a head office in the head office, arbitration, pre-release production audio or research interviews recorded on the understanding they stay private. So who hears it matters as much as how accurately it is captured.
Your files are uploaded through an encrypted system, handled by a named Marathi transcriber under NDA, and never fed into public speech-to-text tools. We will sign your own confidentiality agreement, follow your retention rules, and delete everything on delivery if your policy requires it.
Encrypted upload
No loose files over email.
NDA as standard
Yours or ours, before we start.
No public AI tools
Your audio never trains anything.
Deletion on request
Files removed on delivery if you need it.
Marathi specifics
In Marathi, the noun decides the verb's ending, and there is no rule for the noun
Marathi keeps three grammatical genders — masculine, feminine and neuter — where most other Indo-Aryan languages settled on two. For a person or an animal the gender usually tracks sex, but for everything else it does not track anything a transcriber can predict. A peer-reviewed study of Marathi's nominal morphology puts it directly: gender for inanimate nouns is 'arbitrarily selected and not associated with readily identifiable phonological or semantic features.' There is no ending, no sound and no meaning that reliably tells you which of the three a given word takes. It has to be known.
And it is not a private fact about the noun — it surfaces in every sentence around it. The same study shows gender 'reflected primarily through agreement of the noun with phrasal elements such as adjectives, demonstratives and verbs,' with an example where the adjective and the demonstrative both shift to feminine endings to match a feminine noun. Change the noun's gender and the endings on the words next to it have to change with it, or the sentence is simply wrong Marathi.
That is the exposure in a transcript: a speaker names a product, a company or a technical term the transcriber has not met before, and the verb or adjective attached to it in speech only makes sense once the noun's gender is known. Guess wrong and the sentence reads as a grammar mistake, not a stylistic one. Which is why the file goes to a transcriber who knows the vocabulary of the subject, not just the sound of the recording, and a second linguist checks agreement holds through the whole document.
Transcription rates
Professional Marathi transcription
Best for clean read transcripts of corporate video, interviews and internal communications.
- Native Marathi transcriber
- Verbatim or clean read
- Speaker identification
- Proofreading pass
A complete managed service for legal proceedings, multi-speaker research and longer-form content requiring verbatim, time-coded or translated deliverables.
- Everything in Standard
- Subject-specialist linguist
- Timecodes and speaker IDs
- Marathi and English in one pass
Priced by runtime, audio quality, number of speakers and turnaround, and backed by our Price Match Promise. Send us a sample for an exact, no-obligation quote.
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Most common questions
Why does Marathi noun gender matter for a transcript?
Because it is not decorative. Marathi has three genders, and the gender of a noun sets the ending of the verb and adjective that agree with it in the same sentence. Get the noun's gender wrong and the surrounding words are wrong too, which reads as a grammar mistake rather than a stylistic choice, in a document you are paying to be accurate.
How do you know the gender of an unfamiliar Marathi word?
For people and animals it usually follows sex, but for most other nouns there is no reliable rule: a peer-reviewed study of Marathi morphology describes gender assignment for inanimate nouns as arbitrary, unconnected to sound or meaning. It has to be known rather than derived. That is why we assign a native transcriber familiar with the subject vocabulary, not just the audio.
Can automatic transcription get Marathi gender agreement right?
Not reliably. A speech tool hears sounds, not the identity of a noun, so it has no way to know which of three genders an unfamiliar word carries and therefore how the verb or adjective attached to it should end. A native Marathi transcriber recognises the word and applies the agreement a fluent reader expects, and a second linguist checks it through the file.
The recording is poor and several people talk over each other. Is that a problem?
It is normal work. Phone audio, site noise, focus groups and meetings where three people speak at once all get transcribed here; what changes is how long it takes and how much of it a second pass has to resolve. Where a passage is genuinely inaudible we mark it rather than guess, with a timecode so you can check it yourself.
Can you tell me in advance what you will be able to capture?
Yes. Send a sample first and we listen to it before quoting, then tell you straight what we expect to get and what we do not. That is a better conversation before you book than after the transcript arrives.
Can I get the transcript and an English translation?
Yes, as a source transcript, an English translation, or the two side by side. The same native transcriber produces the source text and a separate qualified translator works from the original audio rather than from the transcript alone, which is what keeps a mishearing from travelling into the translation.
Should I ask for verbatim or clean read?
Clean read suits corporate video, interviews for publication and anything heading for translation: filler words and false starts come out, the meaning stays. Verbatim is what legal proceedings, compliance material and research interviews need, because every utterance and pause is on the record. Your project manager confirms the choice against your end use before work starts.
Is my audio kept confidential?
Yes. Files are uploaded through an encrypted system, handled by a named transcriber under NDA, and never fed into public speech-to-text tools. We can sign your own confidentiality agreement, work to your retention rules and delete everything on delivery.
How much does transcription cost?
Every file is quoted on its own terms. Runtime, audio quality, how many people are speaking, the turnaround you need and whether you also want a translation all move the figure, so there is no flat per-minute rate that would be honest across all of them. Send us a sample and we will come back with an exact, itemised number, backed by our Price Match Promise.
How quickly can you deliver?
Most short files come back within 24 to 48 hours. Length, audio quality and whether you need time-coding or full verbatim all affect it, and a large multi-speaker project is scheduled rather than rushed. Your project manager confirms the timeline before work starts, not after.
How will the finished Marathi transcript be delivered?
In whatever the next step needs: plain text, Word, PDF, Excel, SRT, VTT or your own template, with timecodes and speaker labels set the way you want them. Tell us what happens to the transcript after we send it and we format it for that, rather than handing you a file you have to rework.
What do you need from us to quote Marathi transcription?
Less than people expect: the recording, or even a few minutes of it, its total running time, roughly how many people are speaking, and whether you want verbatim or clean read. Poor audio does not stop a quote, it only changes it, so send it as it is rather than trying to clean it up first. A named project manager comes back with an itemised quote, normally within four working hours.
How quickly will we hear back, and who will we be dealing with?
More than half of enquiries get a reply within thirty minutes during office hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm UK time), and the itemised quote normally follows within four working hours. After that you have one dedicated project manager who owns the job from brief to final file — not a ticket queue, and not a different name on every email. If it is easier, call +44 207 095 5730 and ask for them by name.
We are still pitching and the budget is not signed off. Can we still get a Marathi quote?
Yes, and it is one of the commonest reasons people get in touch. Tell us it is for a pitch and you get a figure you can put in front of your own client, itemised so it stands up to being picked apart, with no obligation and no follow-up sales calls if the pitch goes elsewhere. If it lands, the quote still holds and we already know the project.
What if we find a cheaper Marathi quote somewhere else?
Send it over. Our Price Match Promise covers like-for-like work, and because our quotes are itemised you can see exactly what is being compared — which is usually where the gap turns out to be, in a revision pass, a licence or a delivery format that the cheaper figure quietly left out. If it really is the same work for less, we match it.
Can we start with one file before committing the whole Marathi project?
Yes, and we would often suggest it. One episode, one module, one commercial tells you more about whether we are a fit than any showreel, and it prices the rest of the run properly instead of by estimate. Bigger projects are then planned in clear milestones, so you are signing off the transcripts as they arrive rather than all of them at the end.
Ready to transcribe your Marathi audio?
Send us the files and tell us where the transcript will end up — we'll come back with an exact, itemised quote.
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