English to Finnish audio translator

A Finnish transcript in paragraphs, each with the moment it was said. Paste it into a memo, or save a Word document headed “Translated: English → Finnish”. The English transcript, with identical times, is saved on its own.

Keep the times when you pass the Finnish on. If a reader doubts a sentence, the time points straight to the English words in the recording.

Yes, because Finnish has one word for both: hän. “Our doctor said she would call back tomorrow” became “Lääkärimme sanoi, että hän soittaa takaisin huomenna”. A Finnish reader learns nothing about the doctor’s gender, so add it in the text if it matters.

The upside: nouns carry no gender either, so “The teachers were tired after the trip” became a plain “Opettajat olivat väsyneitä retken jälkeen”, with no choice to get wrong.

It moves between the two. A plain request used sinä (“Voitko lähettää minulle raportin ennen perjantaita?”), while “you know” became the plural-polite “tiedättehän” and “sir” brought out “Istukaa alas, herra”. For a document, pick one form and edit the rest to match.

Well: in our test, translation from English into Finnish scored above the dedicated translation system we compared it with. The Finnish ran about the same length as the English, so expect a transcript of roughly the original’s size.

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