German to English video translator

In characters, yes. Across our German test recording, word counts barely changed but the characters dropped by roughly an eighth: one long German compound such as “Unabhängigkeitserklärung” is three short English words, “Declaration of Independence”.

That leaves English subtitles room to breathe: at most 2 lines of 42 characters, kept up long enough to read at about 17 characters a second.

Very well. Our test rated the German transcription very clean and the English made from it strong. Names are the part to check, since they reach the subtitles spelled the way the German transcript heard them.

They take English form. “z. B.” became “e.g.”, “Um genau 8:46 Uhr” became “At exactly 8:46 a.m.”, and “15 dieser Felsen” stayed in figures: “15 of these rocks”. Units such as “165 km/h” came through as written.

No, they follow English. The translation is cut into subtitles afterwards, so a German clause that ends on its verb (“wo die Band vor einer ausverkauften Menge spielte”) appears as natural English: “where the band played for a sold-out crowd”.

NoteOwl understands German on your Mac: it imports MP4 videos, transcribes them with unlimited transcription and saves SRT subtitles with each speaker’s name. For German subtitles of the same speech, use the German subtitle generator.