Generate Portuguese subtitles for your French videos

How French audio becomes Portuguese subtitles

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

Both languages are written in the Latin alphabet, so the file needs nothing from your player beyond that script.

Why translate French video into Portuguese

French is spoken principally in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada and much of West and Central Africa; Portuguese in Brazil, Portugal and Lusophone Africa. A Portuguese 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 French audio

French elides heavily in speech — words run together in ways the written form does not show — which makes word boundaries the hard part rather than the vocabulary. African and Québécois French are both well handled.

About the Portuguese subtitles

Brazilian and European Portuguese differ enough in rhythm and vowel reduction that they can sound like separate languages to a learner. Both transcribe accurately, and the written output follows the variety spoken.

What a French to Portuguese subtitle file looks like

Four lines of French speech, transcribed and translated, as they come out of the exported SRT. The timings are the French 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
Bom dia a todos.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Vou compartilhar os detalhes em um momento.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Escrevam suas perguntas abaixo.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Até a próxima.

What to check before publishing

• Names and places, which translation handles less reliably than ordinary prose.
• Idiom — a phrase that is natural in French may need loosening to read well in Portuguese.
• Timing on fast exchanges, where two speakers overlap.