Generate subtitles for your Persian videos

About Persian transcription

Persian (فارسی) is written in Perso-Arabic and spoken principally in Iran, Afghanistan, where it is called Dari, and Tajikistan. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Persian, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file.

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 Persian subtitle file looks like

Four lines as they come out of the exported SRT, in Perso-Arabic with the timings taken from the speech itself.

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,240
بیایید با سؤال اول شروع کنیم.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
آیا صدای من را واضح می‌شنوید؟

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
سؤالات خود را در پایین بنویسید.

Right-to-left Persian subtitles

Persian runs right to left. Subtitle files record the text and let the player apply direction from the characters themselves, so nothing needs configuring for ordinary playback.

Lines mixing Persian with Latin-script names, numbers or brand terms are the ones worth previewing in the player you publish to — that is where layout occasionally surprises people.

What people caption in Persian

The Persian material that comes through most often is news, documentaries, lectures and film clips. All of it works the same way — upload the file, check the transcript, export the subtitle track.

Getting a better Persian transcript

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

Persian subtitles in another language

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