Translate subtitles to Turkish

Turkish puts the verb last, so the two halves are translated together and then shared back between the two subtitles, each at its own time. The Turkish half may not mirror the English half word for word, but the pair reads as one sentence.

You can see the order change in a single line from our test: “The teachers were tired after the trip” became “Geziden sonra öğretmenler yorgundu”, with “after the trip” moved to the front and “were tired” to the very end.

Siz, in every line of our test: “gönderebilir misiniz?” for “can you send”, “bilirsiniz” for “you know”, and “Lütfen oturun, efendim” for “Please sit down, sir”. That fits lessons, interviews and company videos; for a chatty vlog, switch lines to sen in the downloaded file.

Usually without trouble. In our test, Turkish ran about the same length as the English it came from. Each subtitle keeps its time and is laid out again in at most 2 lines of about 42 characters, broken between words.

If one translation does come out long, that subtitle simply gets two fuller lines; it never gains a third line or borrows time from the next subtitle.

In our test, translation from English into Turkish scored clearly above the dedicated translation system we compared it with. Turkish letters such as ı, ş and ğ come out in place, and names keep their spelling: “Dr. Patel ve Maria Lopez”.

Turkish has no separate words for he and she, so “Our doctor said she would call back” became “Doktorumuz yarın geri arayacağını söyledi”, which leaves the doctor’s gender open, just as a Turkish speaker would say it.

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