Generate subtitles for your Portuguese videos

About Portuguese transcription

Portuguese (Português) is written in the Latin alphabet and spoken principally in Brazil, Portugal and Lusophone Africa. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Portuguese, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file.

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 Portuguese 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
Bom dia a todos.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Obrigado a todos por virem.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Vamos começar com a primeira pergunta.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
É tudo por hoje.

What people caption in Portuguese

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

Getting a better Portuguese transcript

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

Portuguese subtitles in another language

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