Translate SRT files

qlot preserves each timing line, cue number and the number and order of cues exactly as written. Missing, repeated or out-of-order numbers are accepted. Timing, duration and playback speed are not adjusted, and cues are not merged or split.

Before delivery, the translation is checked against the original cues, timestamps and line placement. If that check fails or too many cues come back untranslated, the job fails and nothing is charged.

Dialogue, narration, lyrics, bracketed sound descriptions and speaker names in the subtitle text are translated. Speaker marks, music notes, position codes and tags around a whole line stay as written. Inner italic, bold, underline and color tags are restored when possible; if they cannot be placed correctly, that cue is delivered without its inner tags. Lines with word-by-word timing lose those timing and inner formatting tags.

In a dual-language input file, lines written in a different script from the selected source language stay unchanged and are not billed. Cues containing only numbers or symbols and text outside the cues also stay unchanged and are not billed. Translation does not create a new bilingual subtitle file.

Yes. Upload the subtitle file exported from your caption workflow. Repeated lines in rolling captions are recognized and translated line by line, so the same line reads the same wherever it reappears, and each line remains one line.

Lines containing word-by-word timing are translated as plain text: cue timing stays, but word timing and inner formatting tags do not. This page accepts subtitle files, not video or audio, and does not transcribe speech or generate captions.

Credits are measured before translation on the subtitle text selected for translation. Timestamps, cue numbers and tags are excluded; repeated cue text is counted once, and in rolling captions a repeated line is counted once. A completed job is charged its quoted price, including the few cues that may remain in the source language. The pricing page’s credit guide can measure your file before translation.

More than 200 source and target languages are available. You can translate one file into several target languages at once and apply glossaries. Each target language is delivered in a separate file.

SRT subtitle translation requires a paid plan. The Preview plan does not support subtitles because previews are page images and a subtitle file has no pages. Files can be up to 12MB and up to 1 million lines.