Generate subtitles for your Polish videos

About Polish transcription

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

Polish carries two full series of sibilants that sound close to an untrained ear — the ś/ź/ć group against sz/ż/cz — and confusing them is where most transcription errors land. It also writes nasal vowels as ą and ę, and permits consonant clusters long enough that a correct transcript can look like a typing error.

What a Polish 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
Zacznijmy od pierwszego pytania.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Napiszcie swoje pytania poniżej.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
To wszystko na dziś.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Do zobaczenia następnym razem.

Polish diacritics are not optional

The marks above and below Polish 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 Polish transcript

Polish 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.

What people caption in Polish

The Polish material that comes through most often is lectures, corporate video, podcasts and news. All of it works the same way — upload the file, check the transcript, export the subtitle track.

Getting a better Polish transcript

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

Polish subtitles in another language

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