Generate subtitles for your Catalan videos

About Catalan transcription

Catalan (Català) is written in the Latin alphabet and spoken principally in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Catalan, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file.

Catalan is a language in its own right rather than a variety of Spanish, and the two are used side by side across its territory, so recordings routinely switch between them mid-sentence. Valencian is the same language under a different name with some vocabulary of its own, and transcribes the same way.

What a Catalan subtitle file looks like

Four lines as they come out of the exported SRT, in the Latin alphabet with the timings taken from the speech itself.

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,240
Bon dia a tothom.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Comencem amb la primera pregunta.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Compartiré els detalls d'aquí a un moment.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Això és tot per avui.

Getting a better Catalan transcript

• Set the language to Catalan rather than leaving detection on, particularly for clips under a minute where there is little audio to judge from.
• Upload the highest-quality audio you have; compression artefacts cost more accuracy than most people expect.
• Check proper nouns, place names and numbers first — recognition errors concentrate there.
• Read the transcript before exporting. Catalan subtitles are editable up until you download them.

Catalan subtitles in another language

The same Catalan audio can produce subtitles in any of the 76 supported languages instead of in Catalan itself. English is the most common target, but every pair works, and the translated file keeps the original timings so it drops onto the same video unchanged.