Generate English subtitles for your Galician videos

How Galician audio becomes English subtitles

Audio in Galician (Galego) 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 Galician speech — each line appears at the moment it was actually said.

Both languages are written in the Latin alphabet, so the file needs nothing from your player beyond that script.

Why translate Galician video into English

Galician is spoken principally in Galicia, in north-west Spain; 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.

About the Galician audio

Galician sits between Portuguese and Spanish and is close to both, which makes automatic detection unreliable across all three. Speakers also alternate with Spanish routinely, so selecting Galician explicitly is what stops a recording drifting into Castilian spelling.

About the English subtitles

English has a wider spread of accents than any other language here, and the gap between spelling and pronunciation means recognition leans on context rather than sound alone. Names and technical terms are where errors concentrate, because those are exactly the words context cannot predict.

What a Galician to English subtitle file looks like

Four lines of Galician speech, transcribed and translated, as they come out of the exported SRT. The timings are the Galician 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
Good morning, everyone.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Let's start with the first question.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Can you hear me clearly?

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
See you next time.

What to check before publishing

• Names and places, which translation handles less reliably than ordinary prose.
• Idiom — a phrase that is natural in Galician may need loosening to read well in English.
• Timing on fast exchanges, where two speakers overlap.