Generate subtitles for your Belarusian videos

About Belarusian transcription

Belarusian (Беларуская) is written in Cyrillic and spoken principally in Belarus. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Belarusian, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file.

Belarusian and Russian share the Cyrillic script and a great deal of vocabulary, and mixed Belarusian-Russian speech is ordinary in daily life rather than exceptional. Detection between them is correspondingly unreliable, so set the language explicitly when you know it.

What a Belarusian subtitle file looks like

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

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,240
Дзякуй усім, што прыйшлі.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Пачнём з першага пытання.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Ці добра вы мяне чуеце?

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Пішыце свае пытанні ніжэй.

Searching a Belarusian transcript

Belarusian 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 Belarusian transcript

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

Belarusian subtitles in another language

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