Translate subtitles to Danish

Yes. Danish came out about the same length as the English sentences in our test, so most subtitles fill much the same room. Every one keeps its original start and end time and is laid out again in two lines at most.

Lines aim for 42 characters, read at about 17 characters a second. A longer Danish subtitle gets two fuller lines, never a third line and never an extra subtitle.

Because the translation puts a comma before clauses that start with at, der or hvor: “Vores læge sagde, at hun ville ringe tilbage i morgen.” Danish allows that comma or leaves it out, so if your house style drops it, remove it throughout.

Yes, du for one person, as Danish does, and jer for a group: “Tak til jer alle for at komme i dag.” A polite “sir” stayed English in “Sæt dig venligst ned, sir.” On screen, cut the “sir” if Danish viewers would find it odd.

English names of places and institutions can come back in Danish: in a longer test, “Obanazawa Post Office” became “Obanazawa posthus”. People’s names stay as your file spells them.

Very good in our test: translation from English into Danish scored clearly above the dedicated translation system we compared it with. Give the file one read for names and numbers before it goes online.

NoteOwl understands Danish on your Mac: it transcribes Danish recordings with unlimited transcription, labels each speaker and saves SRT subtitles with their names. For subtitles straight from Danish speech, use the Danish subtitle generator.