Generate subtitles for your Azerbaijani videos

About Azerbaijani transcription

Azerbaijani (Azərbaycan dili) is written in the Latin alphabet and spoken principally in Azerbaijan and north-west Iran. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Azerbaijani, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file.

Azerbaijani is written in the Latin alphabet in Azerbaijan and in Perso-Arabic script across the border in Iran; transcription here produces the Latin form. It is Turkic and close to Turkish, close enough that detection between the two is unreliable on short clips.

What an Azerbaijani 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
Hamıya sabahınız xeyir.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Məni aydın eşidirsiniz?

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Təfərrüatları bir azdan paylaşacağam.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Növbəti dəfə görüşərik.

Line length in Azerbaijani

Azerbaijani builds meaning by stacking endings onto a stem, producing few words but long ones. Lines come out dense rather than wordy.

Shorter subtitle blocks read better as a result, and splitting one across two events costs nothing — the timings come from the speech either way.

Getting a better Azerbaijani transcript

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

Azerbaijani subtitles in another language

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