English to Greek video translator

Slightly. Greek ran about a tenth longer than English in our test, so the Greek is laid out on its own terms: at most 2 lines of about 42 characters, each subtitle on screen long enough to read at about 17 characters a second.

Because the Greek is cut into subtitles after it is translated, its subtitles needn’t pair off one for one with the English ones. Each still starts when the English words are spoken.

It ends with the Greek question mark, the same shape as an English semicolon: “Can you send me the report before Friday?” became “Μπορείτε να μου στείλετε την αναφορά πριν από τις Παρασκευή;”. Exclamations keep the familiar mark: “Ουάου! Είναι απίστευτο!”

Leave those marks as they are; Greek viewers read “;” as a question. One small thing to correct in that line: Greek says “πριν από την Παρασκευή”, with “την”.

No, they stay in Latin letters and gain a Greek article: “Dr. Patel and Maria Lopez will lead the session” became “Ο Δρ. Patel και η Maria Lopez θα ηγηθούν της συνεδρίας”. Greek viewers are used to seeing foreign names this way.

In our test, translation from English into Greek scored just under the dedicated translation system we compared it with, within the margin we set.

NoteOwl understands Greek and English on your Mac: it imports MP4 videos, transcribes them with unlimited transcription and saves SRT subtitles with each speaker’s name. Already have English subtitles? The subtitle translator keeps their exact timing.