Dutch to English video translator

Well enough to follow, with a careful look before publishing. The Dutch is transcribed cleanly, yet in our speech-to-English test Dutch scored lower than most languages, though the meaning came through. Play the video once with the English on and fix what reads oddly.

Often a few. Dutch ran about a tenth longer than English in our test, so the same speech usually needs a little less English. The English is cut into its own subtitles, at most 2 lines of 42 characters, each readable at 17 characters a second.

That means the English subtitles needn’t pair up one for one with the Dutch subtitles under Original. Both sets start when the words are spoken, so either can be published on its own.

Names and acronyms, since the English spells whatever the Dutch transcript heard. In our test the ministry acronym METI appeared as “Meti”, and a man called Rolando was subtitled as “Ronaldo”. A quick search of the SRT for every name fixes them in one pass.

NoteOwl understands Dutch on your Mac: it imports MP4 videos, transcribes them with unlimited transcription and saves SRT subtitles with each speaker’s name. For Dutch subtitles of Dutch speech, use the Dutch subtitle generator.