Generate subtitles for your Armenian videos

About Armenian transcription

Armenian (Հայերեն) is written in the Armenian script and spoken principally in Armenia, and Armenian communities worldwide. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Armenian, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file.

Armenian has an alphabet used for no other language. Eastern Armenian, spoken in Armenia and Iran, and Western Armenian, carried by the diaspora, differ enough in pronunciation and grammar that a speaker of one notices the other immediately, and both transcribe into the same script. Armenian punctuation is its own: the full stop is a colon-like mark, and question and exclamation marks sit above a vowel rather than at the end of the sentence.

What an Armenian subtitle file looks like

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

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,240
Բարի լույս բոլորին։

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Սկսենք առաջին հարցից։

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Ինձ լավ լսո՞ւմ եք։

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Կտեսնվենք հաջորդ անգամ։

Searching a Armenian transcript

Armenian 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 Armenian transcript

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

Armenian subtitles in another language

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