Translate subtitles to Dutch

A little. In our test, Dutch translations ran about a tenth longer than the English sentences. A subtitle’s time can’t stretch, so a longer Dutch line gets two fuller lines instead, never a third line and never an extra subtitle.

Lines aim for 42 characters, and viewers get about 17 characters a second to read them. If a Dutch subtitle looks crowded in your player, trim a word or two; the timing itself is already right.

Mostly je. Everyday lines came back informal (“Kun je me het rapport voor vrijdag sturen?”), and only a line with “sir” turned polite: “Gaat u zitten, meneer.” For a company video or a formal talk, search the file for je and switch to u where it fits.

For well-known places, yes: in our test “Timbuktu” became “Timboektoe”. People’s names stay exactly as your file spells them, and so does “Dr. Patel”. If a channel prefers the international spelling of a place, change it once with search and replace.

Strong. In our test, translation into Dutch scored clearly above the dedicated translation system we compared it with. The Dutch is standard written Dutch, the spelling the Netherlands and Flanders share, so read it once for words your own viewers would say differently.

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