English to Galician video translator

Mostly ti, with vostede where the English is formal: “Please sit down, sir” became “Por favor, sentese, señor”. Greetings to a whole audience use the plural, as in “Grazas a todos por vir hoxe” for “Thank you all for coming today”.

A little: Galician ran slightly longer than English in our test. The Galician is laid out after translating, 2 lines at most of about 42 characters, each subtitle long enough to read and no longer than 7 seconds.

Line breaks fall between phrases and steer clear of ending a line on a one-letter word such as “e”, “o” or “a”, which belongs with the word after it.

Interjections and titles. In our test a mild “Wow!” came back as a much stronger Galician exclamation, and Dr. Patel became “A Dra. Patel”, a woman. Read exclamations and titles on screen, then publish.

It scored above the dedicated translation system we compared it with, and wrote recognisably Galician subtitles: hoxe, outubro, prezo, reunión. Most fixes are the small ones above.

NoteOwl understands English, Spanish and Portuguese on your Mac, though not Galician: it imports MP4 video, transcribes it with unlimited transcription and saves SRT subtitles with speaker names. With English subtitles already made, translate them into Galician and keep their timing.