English to Swedish video translator

Yes. Swedish came out about the same length as English in our test, so the subtitles rarely have to squeeze. They are cut on their own terms: up to 2 lines of 42 characters, 1 to 7 seconds on screen, and time to read at 17 characters a second.

Because the Swedish is split into subtitles after it is translated, its breaks follow Swedish sentences and the speaker’s pauses, so the count can differ slightly from the English subtitles under Original.

A little. “Wow!” stayed as it is, which Swedish speakers say anyway, and “sir” stayed English in “Var snäll och sätt dig, sir.” Swedish has no everyday word for it, so on screen you may prefer to drop it and keep the rest of the line.

Yes. Swedish talks to almost everyone as du, and the translation did too: “Kan du skicka rapporten till mig innan fredag?” A group becomes ni. There is rarely a formal register to adjust, unlike German or French subtitles.

Very good. In our test, translation from English into Swedish scored clearly above the dedicated translation system we compared it with. Play the video through once with the Swedish on, looking mainly at prices and names, before you publish.

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