Spanish to Catalan audio translator

Yes. Spanish “Fue derrotado” came back as “Va ser derrotat”: Catalan builds its everyday past with va plus the infinitive, which looks like the Spanish “va a” future but means something already done. Our test lines used it throughout, as Catalan does.

Now and then, because the languages are so close. Our test kept the Spanish “a. m.” in “a les 8:46 a. m.”, wrote “ocurrida” where Catalan says “ocorreguda”, and copied the Spanish order in “l’avió primer” (Catalan: el primer avió).

From English, the same thing happened once: a Spanish accent in “dirigirán”, which Catalan writes dirigiran. So read the Catalan for forms that look Spanish, the way an editor in Barcelona would.

Plenty came out as Catalan, not Spanish: country names took their articles, “la Xina, l’Europa de l’Est i el Brasil”, and “un traumatismo agudo en su cabeza” became “un traumatisme agut al cap”.

That’s the match: vostè is Catalan’s polite “you”, tu the familiar one, vosaltres the plural. From English, our Catalan used all three: tu in a question, vosaltres in “ja sabeu”, vostè with “sir”, though that polite line came back as “assegüsi’s”, an odd spelling.

The Catalan way, in our English test lines: “6,5 per cent”, “1.250 $” with the sign after the amount, and “a les 15:30 h” on the 24-hour clock. Spanish transcripts already use the decimal comma, so a figure like 6,5 carries over as it is.

With ten Spanish sentences from a public test set, each beside a professional Catalan translation. The Catalan was clear and about as long as the Spanish, with the few Spanish traces described above.

Not in Catalan; use this page for that. NoteOwl on a Mac does understand Spanish, and transcribes Spanish recordings and meetings with unlimited transcription, every speaker labelled. For a Spanish transcript without translation, use Spanish audio to text.