Generate Italian subtitles for your Portuguese videos

How Portuguese audio becomes Italian subtitles

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

Portuguese is spoken principally in Brazil, Portugal and Lusophone Africa; Italian in Italy, San Marino and southern Switzerland. A Italian 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 Portuguese audio

Brazilian and European Portuguese differ enough in rhythm and vowel reduction that they can sound like separate languages to a learner. Both transcribe accurately, and the written output follows the variety spoken.

About the Italian subtitles

Standard Italian transcribes cleanly — spelling follows pronunciation closely. The complication is that much of what gets called an Italian dialect is a separate language rather than an accent, and Neapolitan or Sicilian speech will not transcribe as standard Italian however clear the recording is.

What a Portuguese to Italian subtitle file looks like

Four lines of Portuguese speech, transcribed and translated, as they come out of the exported SRT. The timings are the Portuguese 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
Buongiorno a tutti.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Cominciamo con la prima domanda.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Scrivete le vostre domande qui sotto.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Alla prossima.

What to check before publishing

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