Portuguese to Spanish video translator

Yes. Our Portuguese test recordings were Brazilian, and they were transcribed very cleanly. Since the Spanish is translated from that transcript, a clean Portuguese transcript is what keeps the Spanish subtitles close to what was said.

Because Portuguese often names the subject where Spanish leaves it out. “Ele recentemente perdeu…” became “Él perdió recientemente…”: correct, but a Spanish subtitler would usually drop the “Él”. Deleting it also frees a few characters on a crowded line.

A little. Ten Portuguese test sentences came to 1,027 characters; their Spanish to 1,068. The Spanish is laid out on its own, at most 2 lines of 42 characters a subtitle, read at 17 characters a second.

A typical result from our layout: “A las 8:46 de la mañana, / un silencio se apoderó de la ciudad,”: two balanced lines, broken after the comma.

As the speaker said them. “105 milhas por hora (165 km por hora)” became “105 millas por hora (165 km por hora)”, with the kilometres spelled out as in the Portuguese, and “julho do ano passado” became “julio del año pasado”.

Words that differ between the two languages are swapped: the Brazilian “ônibus” came back as “autobús”, and “ingressos esgotados” as “entradas agotadas”. A channel for Mexico might prefer “boletos”; edit the SRT if so.

NoteOwl understands Portuguese and Spanish on your Mac: it imports MP4 videos, transcribes them with unlimited transcription and saves SRT subtitles with each speaker’s name. Already have Portuguese subtitles? Translate them into Spanish without touching their timing.