Translate subtitles to Catalan

Yes. Pick Spanish under From, or let the page detect it, and the subtitles go straight into Catalan at their original times. In our test, “Fue derrotado, hace poco” became “Va ser derrotat, fa poc”, and countries gained Catalan articles: “l’Índia i el Pakistan”.

One habit to watch: the Spanish “a. m.” stayed in “a les 8:46 a. m.”. Catalan subtitles usually write the hour on its own or with “del matí”, so tidy those after a Spanish file.

No, and the translation didn’t add them: “Em pots enviar l’informe abans de divendres?” and “Això és increïble!” end with the mark only, as Catalan normally writes. The punt volat stays too, as in col·lisió.

A little: Catalan ran about a tenth longer than English in our test. Every subtitle keeps its original time, so a longer translation gets two fuller lines, never a third.

Lines aim for 42 characters and break between phrases. The layout avoids ending a line on a short word such as “i”, “de” or “la”, and never splits an apostrophe pair like l’informe or d’octubre.

All three appeared, following the English: tu in “Em pots enviar…?”, vosaltres for a group in “ja sabeu”, and vostè with “sir”. That polite line came back in an unusual verb form, so read any vostè lines before publishing.

Titles and Spanish spellings. Our test kept “La nostra doctora” for a woman doctor, but also made Dr. Patel a woman (“La Dra. Patel”) and wrote “dirigirán” with a Spanish accent. Numbers came out Catalan style: “6,5 per cent”, “1.250 $”, “a les 15:30 h”.

Overall, translation from English into Catalan scored above the dedicated translation system we compared it with in our test.

NoteOwl understands Spanish and English on your Mac: it transcribes recordings with unlimited transcription and saves SRT subtitles with speaker names, ready to translate into Catalan here. It doesn’t transcribe Catalan; for Catalan speech, use the Catalan subtitle generator.