Spanish to English video translator

Yes. Across our Spanish test recording, the English used 898 words for the transcript’s 1,005, so English subtitles have room to spare and stay easy to read even when a speaker talks fast.

Each subtitle holds at most 2 lines of up to 42 characters and stays up long enough to read at about 17 characters a second, beginning as the Spanish words are said.

Very well. Our test rated Spanish transcription very clean and its English good, on a recording of Latin American Spanish. Unusual words can even come out tidier: the transcript’s “poutukawa” trees appeared in English as “pōhutukawa”, the correct spelling.

Because Spanish often doesn’t say. “Los luchadores compañeros de Luna también le rindieron homenaje” uses “le”, which fits a man or a woman, and the English chose “paid tribute to him”, though Luna was a woman. Check pronouns wherever the person matters.

Usually not, but watch for lines that do. “Fue derrotado, hace poco, por Raonic” came back as “He was defeated, recently, by Raonic”, commas and all, where a subtitle reads better as “He recently lost to Raonic”. Smooth such lines in the SRT.

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