Generate Galician subtitles for your English videos

How English audio becomes Galician subtitles

Audio in English (English) is transcribed first, then translated into Galician (Galego). Because the translation runs on the transcript rather than on the audio, the Galician subtitle file keeps the timings of the original English 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 English video into Galician

English is spoken principally in worldwide; Galician in Galicia, in north-west Spain. A Galician 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 English audio

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.

About the Galician subtitles

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.

What an English to Galician subtitle file looks like

Four lines of English speech, transcribed and translated, as they come out of the exported SRT. The timings are the English 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
Comecemos coa primeira pregunta.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Escribide as vosas preguntas abaixo.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Isto é todo por hoxe.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Ata a próxima.

What to check before publishing

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