Generate Luxembourgish subtitles for your English videos

Line length in Luxembourgish

Luxembourgish welds nouns together into single long words, so a sentence that fitted comfortably as English can overflow the same subtitle box once translated. The word count barely moves; the character count does.

Shorter blocks are the fix. Splitting a long line across two subtitle events costs nothing — the timings come from the original speech either way and stay in sync.

How English audio becomes Luxembourgish subtitles

Audio in English (English) is transcribed first, then translated into Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch). Because the translation runs on the transcript rather than on the audio, the Luxembourgish subtitle file keeps the timings of the original English speech — each line appears at the moment it was actually said.

Why translate English video into Luxembourgish

English is spoken principally in worldwide; Luxembourgish in Luxembourg. A Luxembourgish 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 Luxembourgish subtitles

Luxembourgish speech routinely carries French and German inside the same sentence, and that mixing is a normal register rather than an error to resolve. Its standardised spelling is relatively recent, so written forms vary more than in longer-codified languages.

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 Luxembourgish.
• Line width, since Luxembourgish packs the same sentence into longer words than English does.
• Timing on fast exchanges, where two speakers overlap.