Generate subtitles for your Greek videos

About Greek transcription

Greek (Ελληνικά) is written in the Greek script and spoken principally in Greece and Cyprus. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Greek, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file.

Modern Greek is written with a single accent mark on the stressed syllable, and that accent is not optional — it is what separates otherwise identical words. Sigma also takes a different form at the end of a word than in the middle. Cypriot Greek differs from the mainland standard enough in everyday vocabulary to be worth flagging before you review a transcript.

What a Greek subtitle file looks like

Four lines as they come out of the exported SRT, in the Greek script with the timings taken from the speech itself.

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,240
Με ακούτε καθαρά;

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Θα μοιραστώ τις λεπτομέρειες σε λίγο.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Αυτά για σήμερα.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Τα λέμε την επόμενη φορά.

Searching a Greek transcript

Greek is heavily inflected, so a term appears in a range of forms rather than repeating identically the way an English transcript would. That is correct output.

It does mean searching a transcript for a keyword will miss most of its occurrences unless you search for the stem — worth knowing before you use a transcript as an index.

What people caption in Greek

The Greek material that comes through most often is lectures, news, documentaries and tourism and corporate video. All of it works the same way — upload the file, check the transcript, export the subtitle track.

Getting a better Greek transcript

• Set the language to Greek rather than leaving detection on, particularly for clips under a minute where there is little audio to judge from.
• Upload the highest-quality audio you have; compression artefacts cost more accuracy than most people expect.
• Check proper nouns, place names and numbers first — recognition errors concentrate there.
• Read the transcript before exporting. Greek subtitles are editable up until you download them.

Greek subtitles in another language

The same Greek audio can produce subtitles in any of the 76 supported languages instead of in Greek itself. English is the most common target, but every pair works, and the translated file keeps the original timings so it drops onto the same video unchanged.