Generate subtitles for your Croatian videos

About Croatian transcription

Croatian (Hrvatski) is written in the Latin alphabet and spoken principally in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Croatian, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file.

Croatian is written in the Latin alphabet and is close to identical in speech to Bosnian and Serbian. What separates them in a subtitle file is vocabulary preference and, for Serbian, the option of Cyrillic — not anything a listener would hear.

What a Croatian 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
Hvala svima na dolasku.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Krenimo s prvim pitanjem.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Čujete li me jasno?

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Vidimo se idući put.

Searching a Croatian transcript

Croatian is heavily inflected, so a term appears in a range of forms rather than repeating identically the way an English transcript would. That is correct output.

It does mean searching a transcript for a keyword will miss most of its occurrences unless you search for the stem — worth knowing before you use a transcript as an index.

Getting a better Croatian transcript

• Set the language to Croatian 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. Croatian subtitles are editable up until you download them.

Croatian subtitles in another language

The same Croatian audio can produce subtitles in any of the 76 supported languages instead of in Croatian 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.