Italian subtitle generator

Because a guessed language can slip on a short or noisy line, and a run of subtitles in the wrong language under Italian speech is useless to the people watching. With the page set to Italian, every cue is written in Italian, whatever the accent.

If the video moves between Italian and English, the main subtitle generator suits it better: it works out the language of each stretch of speech on its own.

As digits, nearly always: “15 metri”, “10 agenti”, “5 volte”. Clock times come with a full stop, as in “alle 23.35” and “tra le 6.30 e le 7.30”. A house style may ask for something else, and the file is easy to change.

Netflix’s Italian style guide, for one, spells out the numbers one to ten and writes times with a colon. Edit those words in the SRT or VTT with any text editor; the timing lines stay exactly as they are.

On length and speed, yes. Netflix’s Italian guide allows 42 characters a line and 17 characters a second for adult viewers, the same limits this page uses, with 2 lines at most and no dots when a sentence runs into the next subtitle.

One convention is yours to add: when two people share a subtitle, each line starts with a hyphen and a space (“- Arrivi?” / “- Tra un minuto.”). The web generator writes the words only, with no speaker marks.

NoteOwl understands Italian on your Mac: it transcribes Italian recordings there with unlimited transcription, tells the speakers apart and saves SRT subtitles with their names, using on-device AI models. Want a plain Italian transcript instead? Use Italian audio to text.