Russian to English video translator

Each English subtitle appears when the matching Russian words begin and stays up long enough to read at 17 characters a second, within 1 to 7 seconds. It holds at most 2 lines of up to 42 characters, broken between words.

The English is split into subtitles after it has been translated, so it follows English sentences rather than Russian ones, and the English subtitles needn’t match the Russian subtitles one for one.

The 24-hour clock stays: “Ровно в 08:46” became “Exactly at 08:46”. Units take English abbreviations: “165 км/ч” became “165 km/h” and “105 миль в час” “105 miles per hour”. For American viewers, change times to a.m. and p.m. if you like.

Places and storms named in Cyrillic return to their English spelling: “Миссури” became “Missouri” and “урагана Фред” became “Hurricane Fred”. A brand the transcript wrote in Latin letters, such as “Six Flags St. Louis”, came through untouched. People’s names are spelled by sound, so check unusual ones.

NoteOwl understands Russian on your Mac: it imports MP4 videos, transcribes them with unlimited transcription and saves SRT subtitles with each speaker’s name. For Russian subtitles of Russian speech, with no translation, try the Russian subtitle generator.