English to Finnish video translator

Whole. A line breaks only between words, so a long Finnish word moves to the next line instead of being hyphenated. Lines hold up to 42 characters, 2 lines per subtitle, and a sentence such as “Sundarban on julistettu Unescon maailmanperintökohteeksi.” splits after “Unescon”.

Overall, Finnish ran about the same length as English in our test. Each subtitle stays 1 to 7 seconds, long enough to read at 17 characters a second, and because the Finnish is cut after translation, the count can differ a little from the English subtitles.

Because Finnish adds endings to them. A storm called Fred appears as “Fredin” in “Fredin tuulennopeus”, and “Dr. Patel” as “Tohtori Patel”. That is correct Finnish; just make sure the name inside the ending is spelled the way your video spells it.

Some lines one way, some the other. “Voitko…?” used sinä, while “Istukaa alas, herra” used the polite plural, and a room of people got “Kiitos kaikille, että tulitte tänään”. Decide how your channel speaks to viewers and adjust the odd line.

Good: in our test, translation from English into Finnish scored above the dedicated translation system we compared it with. Watch the video once with the Finnish on, mainly for names and the sinä or te choice, before you publish.

NoteOwl understands Finnish and English on your Mac. It imports MP4 videos, transcribes them with unlimited transcription and saves SRT subtitles with each speaker’s name. For English subtitles you already have, the subtitle translator translates them and keeps every time.