Generate Persian subtitles for your Turkish videos

Reading Persian subtitles right to left

Persian runs right to left while Turkish runs left to right, so the exported file reads in the opposite direction from the audio you uploaded. Subtitle formats carry that correctly and mainstream players render it without configuration.

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 Turkish audio becomes Persian subtitles

Audio in Turkish (Türkçe) 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 Turkish speech — each line appears at the moment it was actually said.

From the Latin alphabet to Perso-Arabic

Turkish is written in the Latin alphabet 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 Turkish video into Persian

Turkish is spoken principally in Turkey and Cyprus; 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 Turkish audio

Turkish is agglutinative: a single word can carry what English needs a clause for, so word counts are low and individual words are long. Spelling is highly regular, which makes it transcribe cleanly.

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 Turkish to Persian subtitle file looks like

Four lines of Turkish speech, transcribed and translated, as they come out of the exported SRT. The timings are the Turkish 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
از همه شما متشکرم که آمدید.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
سؤالات خود را در پایین بنویسید.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
برای امروز همین بود.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
دفعه بعد می‌بینمتان.

What to check before publishing

• Names and places, which translation handles less reliably than ordinary prose.
• Idiom — a phrase that is natural in Turkish 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.