Generate subtitles for your Danish videos

About Danish transcription

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

Danish is the hardest of the Scandinavian languages to transcribe, because a great deal of what the spelling implies is not pronounced — consonants soften or disappear and vowels run together. Clear studio Danish is fine; casual conversational Danish is where accuracy drops fastest, and is worth reading through carefully.

What a Danish 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
Lad os starte med det første spørgsmål.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Kan I høre mig tydeligt?

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Jeg deler detaljerne om et øjeblik.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Det var alt for i dag.

Line length in Danish

Danish welds nouns together into single long words, so a Danish subtitle line runs visually wider than its word count suggests.

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 Danish transcript

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

Danish subtitles in another language

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