Generate subtitles for your Slovak videos

About Slovak transcription

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

Slovak and Czech are mutually intelligible to the point that speakers of each use their own language when talking to the other, which also means automatic detection between them is unreliable. Select Slovak explicitly rather than letting a short clip decide.

What a Slovak 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
Ďakujem všetkým, že ste prišli.

2
00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,120
Počujete ma dobre?

3
00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,300
Napíšte svoje otázky nižšie.

4
00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,040
To je na dnes všetko.

Slovak diacritics are not optional

The marks above and below Slovak 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 Slovak transcript

Slovak 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.

Getting a better Slovak transcript

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

Slovak subtitles in another language

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