Finnish subtitle generator

Because a guessed language can trip on a short, quiet stretch, and Finnish has close relatives such as Estonian. A subtitle in the wrong language halts the viewer. Set to Finnish, every subtitle is written in Finnish, ä and ö included.

A video that moves between Finnish and Swedish or English for whole passages works better on the main subtitle generator, which identifies the language of each passage itself.

Hyphens left at the end of a line. Finnish shortens “kauppakysymyksistä ja terrorismikysymyksistä” to “kauppa- ja terrorismikysymyksistä”, and in our test the line broke straight after “kauppa-”, which can look like a word split in two. Move “kauppa-” down to the next line if you prefer.

Numbers are worth a look too: our test wrote “30 prosenttia” in words and an ordinal with a full stop, “78. suosituksesta”, both standard Finnish.

With a hyphen and no space on the second speaker’s line only, as in “Se ei ole valmis.” over “-Mikä?”, according to Netflix’s Finnish style guide. The web generator adds no speaker marks; put the hyphen in where two voices share a subtitle.

The guide’s limits are this page’s too, 42 characters a line and 17 a second, though it asks translators for a condensed style. It writes a space in 10 000, a decimal comma and times as “kello 7.45”.

NoteOwl understands Finnish on your Mac: it transcribes Finnish recordings there with unlimited transcription, distinguishes each speaker and saves SRT subtitles with their names, using on-device AI models. For a Finnish transcript to read, use Finnish audio to text.