English to Polish video translator

A little. Polish ran slightly longer than English in our test, and the Polish is cut into subtitles after it is translated, so their number can differ from the English. Each holds 2 lines of up to 42 characters, paced for 17 characters a second.

Because the Polish follows its own sentences and pauses, its subtitles needn’t line up one for one with the English ones; every one still starts when the matching English words are spoken.

Between words, preferably after a comma, and not right after a one-letter word such as “w”, “z” or “i”, which Polish typesetting keeps with the next word. In a run over 155 lines of Polish, none ended on one.

A typical two-line subtitle from that run: “zaoszczędzić sporo pieniędzy, szczególnie” above “na takich towarach jak alkohol i tytoń.”

As ty, mostly. “Can you send me the report before Friday?” came back as “Czy możesz mi wysłać raport przed piątkiem?”, the familiar form, which suits a casual channel. For a training or company video, you may prefer Państwo; change the verbs too.

A line spoken to one man, “Please sit down, sir”, came back as “Proszę usiąść, panie”, which reads stiffly in Polish; “Proszę usiąść” alone is often enough.

Strong for a first pass. In our test, translation from English into Polish scored clearly above the dedicated translation system we compared it with. Watch the video once with the subtitles on to catch names and the ty-or-Państwo choice.

NoteOwl understands Polish 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 timing exactly.