English to Italian audio translator

Italian paragraphs in the order of the recording, each marked with the time it was spoken. Saved as Word, it opens with the recording’s length, the line “Translated: English → Italian” and the date, ready to file or share.

Untick “Times in the text” for clean paragraphs to paste into an email or a report. Keep them while you check the translation: a time leads you straight back to the English words in the recording.

Tu, unless the English signals respect. The casual “Well, you know, it’s kind of a big deal” became “Beh, sai, è una cosa piuttosto importante”, with tu, while “Please sit down, sir” became “Per favore si sieda, signore”, with Lei.

For a formal interview, read the Italian for tu forms and change the ones that should be Lei. Spoken fillers come through as Italian ones (“beh”, “sai”) rather than vanishing, so a quote keeps the speaker’s hesitations; trim them if you are quoting for print.

Because Italian needs a gender that English often only hints at. In our test, “Our doctor said she would call back tomorrow” became “Il nostro medico ha detto che richiamerà domani”: masculine, with the “she” gone. Fix such lines when you know who was meant.

Well. In our test of translation from English, Italian scored above the dedicated translation system we compared it with. The weak spots are the ones above: gender, tu or Lei, and any word the English transcript misheard.

A misheard English word is translated as it was heard, so if an Italian sentence makes no sense, switch to the English transcript, find the same time and listen to that moment.

NoteOwl transcribes Italian and English recordings on your Mac with unlimited transcription, labels each speaker and keeps every conversation searchable. For English speech as English text only, the audio to text tool does that.