Turkish subtitle generator

Because a guessed language can misfire on a short or noisy line, Azerbaijani being close to Turkish, and a subtitle spelled the wrong way is jarring for viewers. Set to Turkish, every subtitle follows Turkish spelling, ı and İ included.

If speakers switch to English or German for long stretches, the main subtitle generator handles it better, because it detects the language of each stretch on its own.

Mostly at full stops and pauses. Our Turkish test had 60 full stops but only 17 commas, so there were few clause marks to cut at, and just one of 80 two-line subtitles had a top line ending in punctuation. Lines are balanced in length instead.

Netflix’s Turkish style guide asks for the same restraint: no comma before a conjunction unless it prevents a misreading, and no colons or semicolons. It also warns against leaving one short word, such as “Henüz”, alone on a line, which is worth checking when you proofread.

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

The same guide sizes the font so 42 characters fit across the screen and allows 17 characters a second for adults, the limits this page uses. It writes one to nine in words, while our test wrote digits such as “2 yıl”.

Turkish is one of the languages NoteOwl understands on your Mac. It transcribes Turkish recordings there with unlimited transcription, labels each voice and saves SRT subtitles with the speakers’ names. For a Turkish transcript rather than subtitles, use Turkish audio to text.