Generate subtitles for your Lithuanian videos

About Lithuanian transcription

Lithuanian (Lietuvių) is written in the Latin alphabet and spoken principally in Lithuania. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Lithuanian, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file.

Lithuanian keeps grammatical features most European languages have lost, which means a heavily inflected transcript where the same word appears in many endings. Stress moves around within a word's forms and is not written, so it cannot be recovered from the transcript alone.

What a Lithuanian subtitle file looks like

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

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,240
Ačiū visiems, kad atvykote.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Pradėkime nuo pirmojo klausimo.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Tiek šiai dienai.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Iki kito karto.

Lithuanian diacritics are not optional

The marks above and below Lithuanian letters change which word it is, not merely how it sounds. Stripping them — which some older subtitle tooling still does on upload — produces text that is wrong rather than plain.

Open an exported file once to confirm they survived before you trust a workflow with a batch. When they do not, the cause is almost always an encoding setting.

Searching a Lithuanian transcript

Lithuanian 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.

Getting a better Lithuanian transcript

• Set the language to Lithuanian 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. Lithuanian subtitles are editable up until you download them.

Lithuanian subtitles in another language

The same Lithuanian audio can produce subtitles in any of the 76 supported languages instead of in Lithuanian 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.