Captions in 51 languages.

51 languages: English; 14 Indian languages, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese, Nepali and Sindhi; and 36 languages of the world, Arabic, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Each is heard with the English words people mix into it.

Language starts on Auto, which takes the language from the voice, and the Captions tool says what it heard: “Heard Kannada with English: Kanglish.” or “Heard Japanese: Japanese in kanji and kana.” You can choose the language yourself before or after. Spoken Urdu may first be heard as Hindi, and Odia as Bengali; choosing the language offers to listen again as that language, for one more request.

Yes. Write in: Latin letters writes the Indian languages the way people type them (Hinglish, Banglish, Telugish, Tenglish, Tanglish, Gujlish, Roman Urdu, Kanglish, Manglish, Punglish), with the English words kept as they were said.

Yes. On Auto a language of the world is written in its own script; choose the language, and Write in: Latin letters writes it the usual way: Pinyin with its tone marks for Chinese, Jyutping for Cantonese, Romaji for Japanese, the Revised Romanization for Korean, RTGS for Thai, translit for Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian, latinica for Serbian, Greeklish for Greek and Finglish for Persian.

Yes, for each of them with a script of its own: Devanagari for Hindi, Marathi and Nepali, the scripts of Bengali, Assamese, Gujarati, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Odia, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu, and Sindhi, Urdu, Arabic, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Chinese (Mandarin), Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, Serbian, Thai and Ukrainian in theirs. All 87 caption looks draw them with English words mixed in. Languages written in Latin letters, such as Spanish and Vietnamese, are written as they are said.

No. Chinese, Japanese and Thai are written without spaces between words, and so are their captions. Each word still keeps its own time, so a look that follows the voice marks every word as it is said.

Yes, from any of them: Write in: Translate to English, then Translate to picks the language, English first and 50 others. It is translated phrase by phrase, each phrase shown while it is said.

Konkani, Maithili, Sanskrit, Kashmiri, Dogri, Manipuri, Bodo and Santali are not offered: the speech recognizer does not list them. Nor are languages whose script the caption looks do not draw, such as Georgian, Armenian and Burmese, or those the recognizer rates below good, such as Amharic and Khmer.