Russian subtitle generator

Because Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian share most of their letters, and a short stretch whose language is guessed can be spelled the wrong way. Set to Russian, every subtitle uses Russian spelling, even where a speaker’s accent wanders.

A video that switches between Russian and English, or Russian and Ukrainian, for whole stretches belongs on the main subtitle generator, which detects the language of each stretch.

They stay attached. A line breaks only at a space, so “по-прежнему”, “из-за” and “53-летний” are never split, an opening « always sits on the word it opens, and the range in “150-200 копий” stayed on one line in our test.

Style guides ask for a little more. Netflix’s Russian guide wants a long dash (—) between subject and predicate, where our test wrote “Долина Качама – главное направление” with a shorter one; it also spells out one to ten and puts a space in numbers from 10 000 up.

In Netflix’s Russian style guide, each speaker’s line starts with a hyphen and a space, as in “- Удачи!” over “- Спасибо!”. This page writes the words only, so add the hyphens yourself where two people share one subtitle.

The generator’s limits match that guide: 42 characters a line and 17 characters a second for adult viewers. Films on Russian-language cable TV and video were long voiced over by a single translator rather than subtitled.

NoteOwl understands Russian on your Mac: it transcribes Russian recordings there with unlimited transcription, tells who is speaking and saves SRT subtitles with their names, with on-device AI models. Need the Russian words as a document instead? Use Russian audio to text.