Generate English subtitles for your Luxembourgish videos

How Luxembourgish audio becomes English subtitles

Audio in Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch) 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 Luxembourgish 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 Luxembourgish video into English

Luxembourgish is spoken principally in Luxembourg; 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 Luxembourgish audio

Luxembourgish speech routinely carries French and German inside the same sentence, and that mixing is a normal register rather than an error to resolve. Its standardised spelling is relatively recent, so written forms vary more than in longer-codified languages.

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 to check before publishing

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