Italian to English video translator

Yes, a little. Across our Italian test recording, the English translation used about a tenth fewer characters and fewer words than the Italian transcript (926 against 1,008). Shorter text gives viewers English subtitles that are quick to read at Italian speaking speed.

Each English subtitle has at most 2 lines of up to 42 characters and stays up long enough to read at about 17 characters a second. Because the English is cut into subtitles after translating, the subtitles follow English sentences, not Italian ones.

Our test rated the Italian transcription very clean and the English made from it good. Names are the usual slip: they appear in the subtitles spelled the way the Italian transcript heard them, so check people and places before you publish.

They are kept as said. “Alle 8:46 precise” became “At exactly 8:46”, with no a.m. added, and “105 miglia all’ora (165 km/h)” became “105 miles per hour (165 km/h)”. Italian compass points turn into English ones: “nord-ovest” became “the northwest”.

Yes. Save the English SRT next to the video with the same file name and players such as VLC load it by themselves; otherwise add it from the player’s subtitle menu. Each file can run up to 30 minutes, enough for a lesson, a vlog or a clip.

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