Generate subtitles for your Serbian videos

About Serbian transcription

Serbian (Српски / Srpski) is written in Cyrillic and Latin, both in everyday use and spoken principally in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. Subtitles generated here come back in that script, as ordinary written Serbian, ready to use in an SRT or VTT file.

Serbian is written in both Cyrillic and Latin, and the two are used interchangeably in practice. Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian are close enough in speech that the choice between them is largely about which written conventions you want.

What a Serbian subtitle file looks like

Four lines as they come out of the exported SRT, in Cyrillic and Latin, both in everyday use with the timings taken from the speech itself.

1
00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:03,240
Хвала свима што сте дошли.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Почнимо са првим питањем.

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Поделићу детаље за тренутак.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
Напишите своја питања испод.

Searching a Serbian transcript

Serbian 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 Serbian

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

Getting a better Serbian transcript

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

Serbian subtitles in another language

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