Generate Persian subtitles for your Hebrew videos

Two right-to-left scripts

Hebrew and Persian both run right to left, so direction is one thing you do not have to think about here — the file goes out in the same orientation it came in.

Mixed passages — a Latin-script brand name or number inside a right-to-left line — are where rendering most often looks wrong, and they are worth checking in the player you actually publish to rather than in a text editor.

How Hebrew audio becomes Persian subtitles

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

From the Hebrew script to Perso-Arabic

Hebrew is written in the Hebrew script and Persian in Perso-Arabic, so the exported file uses a different writing system from the audio that produced it. The subtitle formats handle that — SRT and VTT are plain text and carry any script — but the font in whatever plays the file has to cover it.

This is the most common reason a Persian subtitle track looks correct in an editor and shows boxes or blanks on a device. Test on the target platform before you publish a batch.

Why translate Hebrew video into Persian

Hebrew is spoken principally in Israel; Persian in Iran, Afghanistan, where it is called Dari, and Tajikistan. A Persian 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 Hebrew audio

Hebrew is written right-to-left and normally without vowel marks, so the transcript comes out unvocalised, as ordinary written Hebrew does. Mixed Hebrew-English speech is common in technical and business recordings and is transcribed as spoken.

About the Persian subtitles

Persian is right-to-left and, unlike Arabic, is Indo-European — shared script, unrelated grammar. Iranian Persian and Afghan Dari differ mainly in pronunciation and some vocabulary and both transcribe into the same script.

What a Hebrew to Persian subtitle file looks like

Four lines of Hebrew speech, transcribed and translated, as they come out of the exported SRT. The timings are the Hebrew 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
صبح بخیر به همگی.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
از همه شما متشکرم که آمدید.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
جزئیات را تا لحظاتی دیگر به اشتراک می‌گذارم.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
برای امروز همین بود.

What to check before publishing

• Names and places, which translation handles less reliably than ordinary prose.
• Idiom — a phrase that is natural in Hebrew may need loosening to read well in Persian.
• That Perso-Arabic renders in your player, not just in the editor you exported from.
• Timing on fast exchanges, where two speakers overlap.