Danish subtitle generator

Because Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are close relatives, and a short stretch whose language is guessed can come back in a neighbour’s spelling. Fixed to Danish, every subtitle is written in Danish, from the first line to the last.

Where people switch to English for long passages, as in an international meeting, the main subtitle generator is the right tool: it decides the language of each passage by itself.

Apostrophes in names. Our test wrote the genitive the English way, “Singapore's”, twice, where Danish adds the s without an apostrophe: “Singapores”. Names are worth reading closely in the preview for that reason.

Percentages came back without a space (“30%”) and a range with a hyphen (“1-3”); leave them, or match your house style when you edit the file.

With a hyphen and no space at the start of each speaker’s line, as in “-Nej?” over “-Nej!”, following Netflix’s Danish style guide. The web generator writes the words alone, so add the hyphens where two voices share a subtitle.

That guide shares this page’s limits, 42 characters a line and 17 a second, and asks for a condensed style in translation. In Denmark, as across the Nordic countries, films and series for adults are subtitled and usually only children’s programmes are dubbed.

Danish is among the languages NoteOwl understands on a Mac. It transcribes Danish recordings there with unlimited transcription, keeps the speakers apart and saves SRT subtitles with their names. For a Danish transcript rather than subtitles, use Danish audio to text.