Translate subtitles to Slovenian

Formal. Every line of our test used vi: “Ali mi lahko pošljete poročilo pred petkom?”, “No, veste…”, “Prosim, sedite, gospod.” For a channel that talks to viewers as friends, change the verbs to ti, such as pošlješ and veš, in the downloaded file.

It did in our test. “Our doctor said she would call back” became “Naša zdravnica je rekla”, the woman kept, and two people leading a session took the dual, the form Slovenian keeps for pairs: “bosta vodila”, not the plural “bodo vodili”.

A mixed group takes the masculine plural, as Slovenian grammar does: “Učitelji so bili utrujeni po izletu.” Slovenian also puts a comma before “da” (“je rekla, da bo…”), and the translation did.

Yes, as a rule. In our test, Slovenian ran about as long as the English it replaced. Each subtitle keeps its time and is laid out again in at most 2 lines; a long one gets fuller lines rather than a third line or an extra subtitle.

Lines break between words, and the layout avoids ending a line on a one-letter word such as “v”, “z”, “s” or “k”, which belongs with the word after it.

Slovenian is among the languages NoteOwl understands on a Mac: it transcribes Slovenian recordings with unlimited transcription, recognises each speaker and saves SRT subtitles with their names. For subtitles straight from Slovenian speech in a video, use the Slovenian subtitle generator.