Generate Bosnian subtitles for your Greek videos

From the Greek script to the Latin alphabet

Greek is written in the Greek script and Bosnian in the Latin alphabet, so the exported file uses a different writing system from the audio that produced it. The subtitle formats handle that — SRT and VTT are plain text and carry any script — but the font in whatever plays the file has to cover it.

This is the most common reason a Bosnian subtitle track looks correct in an editor and shows boxes or blanks on a device. Test on the target platform before you publish a batch.

How Greek audio becomes Bosnian subtitles

Audio in Greek (Ελληνικά) is transcribed first, then translated into Bosnian (Bosanski). Because the translation runs on the transcript rather than on the audio, the Bosnian subtitle file keeps the timings of the original Greek speech — each line appears at the moment it was actually said.

Why translate Greek video into Bosnian

Greek is spoken principally in Greece and Cyprus; Bosnian in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A Bosnian subtitle track is what lets one recording reach both audiences without re-recording, re-editing or dubbing it.

Because subtitles are a separate file rather than part of the picture, you can attach several language tracks to the same video and let viewers pick.

About the Greek audio

Modern Greek is written with a single accent mark on the stressed syllable, and that accent is not optional — it is what separates otherwise identical words. Sigma also takes a different form at the end of a word than in the middle. Cypriot Greek differs from the mainland standard enough in everyday vocabulary to be worth flagging before you review a transcript.

About the Bosnian subtitles

Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian are close to identical in speech, and the choice between them is mostly about which written conventions and vocabulary you want rather than what the recording sounds like. Bosnian uses the Latin alphabet and admits more Turkish-derived vocabulary than its neighbours.

What a Greek to Bosnian subtitle file looks like

Four lines of Greek speech, transcribed and translated, as they come out of the exported SRT. The timings are the Greek speaker's — translation does not move them, which is why the file drops onto the original video unchanged.

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,240
Dobro jutro svima.

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

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

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Podijelit ću detalje za trenutak.

What to check before publishing

• Names and places, which translation handles less reliably than ordinary prose.
• Idiom — a phrase that is natural in Greek may need loosening to read well in Bosnian.
• That the Latin alphabet renders in your player, not just in the editor you exported from.
• Timing on fast exchanges, where two speakers overlap.