Swedish subtitle generator

Because Swedish, Norwegian and Danish sound close, and a short stretch whose language is guessed may come back spelled as a neighbour. Set to Swedish, every subtitle is spelled as Swedish, start to finish.

If a speaker switches to English for whole passages, run the video through the main subtitle generator instead: it works out the language of every passage itself.

For your own video, usually yes: the generator writes what is said. Translated Swedish subtitles are condensed, though: Netflix’s Swedish guide requires a condensed style and asks for subtitles to be merged where one speaker runs on.

If a fast speaker makes a subtitle hard to read at 17 characters a second, cut a repeated phrase in the SRT or merge two short subtitles into one; the reading is easier and the timing still follows the speech.

With a hyphen and no space at the start of each speaker’s line, “-När?” over “-Aldrig!”, in Netflix’s Swedish guide. The web generator doesn’t mark speakers, so add the hyphens yourself where a subtitle holds two voices.

Swedish viewers are used to reading: as across the Nordic countries, films and series for teenagers and adults are subtitled, and only children’s programmes are usually dubbed. The same guide writes one to ten in words, where our test kept digits, as in “19 av de skadade”.

NoteOwl understands Swedish on your Mac: it transcribes Swedish recordings there with unlimited transcription, tells the voices apart and saves SRT subtitles with each speaker’s name, using on-device AI models. Need a Swedish transcript to read? Use Swedish audio to text.