English to Vietnamese video translator

On lines of up to 42 characters, 2 per subtitle, each shown long enough to read at 17 characters a second. Vietnamese runs a little longer than English, and it is laid out after translating, so its subtitles needn’t match the English ones one for one.

Yes, because Vietnamese puts a space between syllables and a line can break at any space. In our check, “phần trăm” (percent) was split across two lines, and a date broke between “ngày 16” and “tháng 10”. Names stayed whole: “Dr. Patel và Maria Lopez”.

Moving the stray syllable to the other line in the SRT takes a moment and leaves the timing alone.

Titles and terms left in English. “Dr. Patel” kept the English “Dr.” instead of Bác sĩ, which viewers may or may not expect. Product names and jargon can stay in English too; decide what your audience reads more easily.

In our test of 50 sentences, translation into Vietnamese scored clearly above the dedicated translation system we compared it with. Titles, terms and the word for “you” are still choices only you can make for your viewers.

Vietnamese is among the languages NoteOwl understands on a Mac, along with English. It imports MP4 videos, transcribes them with unlimited transcription and saves SRT subtitles naming each speaker. Already have English subtitles? The subtitle translator keeps their timing exactly.