French to Spanish video translator

In our test it came close to a human translation. “L’attentat a mis à rude épreuve les relations entre l’Inde et le Pakistan” became “El atentado puso a prueba las relaciones entre la India y Pakistán”: plain Spanish, not French word for word.

Slightly shorter, if anything: ten French test sentences came to 1,008 characters, their Spanish to 983. Each Spanish subtitle holds up to 2 lines of 42 characters and stays up long enough to read at 17 characters a second.

Because the Spanish is laid out after translation, it breaks where Spanish phrases end: “A las 8:46 exactamente, / un silencio cayó sobre la ciudad,” was one two-line subtitle in our layout.

Neutral Spanish that reads well in both. Some words follow the French: “le groupe” became “el grupo”, where a Latin American subtitler might write “la banda”. For a channel aimed at one country, search the SRT for such words.

The Spanish route opens questions and exclamations with ¿ and ¡, as it did in our other tests into Spanish, so they look right on screen.

NoteOwl understands French and Spanish on a Mac: import your MP4 videos and it transcribes them with unlimited transcription, names each speaker and saves SRT subtitles. Already have French subtitles? Translate them into Spanish with their timing kept.