Generate subtitles for your Bosnian videos

About Bosnian transcription

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

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 Bosnian 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 što ste došli.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Napišite svoja pitanja ispod.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
To je sve za danas.

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

Searching a Bosnian transcript

Bosnian 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 Bosnian transcript

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

Bosnian subtitles in another language

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