Generate English subtitles for your Occitan videos

How Occitan audio becomes English subtitles

Audio in Occitan (Occitan) 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 Occitan 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 Occitan video into English

Occitan is spoken principally in southern France and neighbouring valleys; 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 Occitan audio

Occitan covers several varieties — Provençal, Languedocien and Gascon among them — that differ enough in sound and vocabulary to complicate a single transcript. French is present in most recordings, and detection between Occitan and neighbouring Romance languages is not dependable.

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 Occitan may need loosening to read well in English.
• Timing on fast exchanges, where two speakers overlap.