Generate English subtitles for your Belarusian videos

Translating Belarusian speech into English subtitles

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

Belarusian is written in Cyrillic and English in the Latin alphabet, so the exported file will be in a different script from the audio you uploaded.

Why translate Belarusian video into English

Belarusian is spoken principally in Belarus; English in worldwide. A English 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.

What to check before publishing

• Names and places, which translation tends to handle less reliably than ordinary prose.
• Idiom — a phrase that is natural in Belarusian may need loosening to read well in English.
• Line length, since English may be considerably more or less compact than Belarusian for the same sentence.
• Timing on fast exchanges, where two speakers overlap.