Spanish to German audio translator

Because German joins nouns that Spanish links with “de”. In our test, “fuentes de ingresos” became “Einnahmequellen”, “lluvia de meteoritos” “Meteoritenschauer”, and “un traumatismo agudo en su cabeza” “ein akutes Schädel-Hirn-Trauma”. Fewer words, yet a little more text overall than the Spanish.

Names take German endings too: “los vientos de Fred” became “Freds Winde”, with the possessive s on the storm’s name.

No: German moves its verbs, and the translation does too. “Para que la banda tocara frente a una multitud” became “damit die Band vor einer Menge spielen konnte”, with both verbs at the end. The transcript is translated in batches, so each line is read with its neighbours.

Spanish already shows the choice, since tú and usted match du and Sie. Our English test lines all came back with Sie, even “you know” (“wissen Sie”), so in a relaxed Spanish conversation between friends, look for a Sie that should be du.

German also needs er or sie where Spanish names nobody: “Llegó tarde” could be a man or a woman. The surrounding lines usually say which; if not, the time beside the paragraph takes you back to the recording.

Words whose meaning depends on the story. “Expulsaron a Piquet Jr.”, which meant he was let go, became “wurde Piquet Jr. verstoßen”, an odd word (disowned), where the human German says “gefeuert”. Times took German form: “8:46 Uhr morgens”.

With ten Spanish sentences from a public test set, each with a professional German translation beside it. Apart from that one odd verb, the German read clearly, with the compounds and word order of written German.

NoteOwl understands Spanish and German on your Mac. It transcribes recordings and meetings in both with unlimited transcription, labels each speaker and keeps every conversation searchable. For a Spanish transcript only, use Spanish audio to text.