Translate subtitles
to Arabic

How it works for Arabic

Upload an English .srt or .vtt file, or a season as a zip. Cues travel to the model in batches of 32 so a sentence that spans two cues is translated as one thought. Every Arabic cue then passes thirteen structural checks; whatever fails goes back with the exact complaint attached, and an editor pass sweeps the whole file for register and idiom. You download the subtitles and a quality report, and the upload is deleted.

What the Arabic profile checks

• Subtitle files store logical order and the player does the bidi, so nothing is reordered. What Arabic needed was its own terminal punctuation: without ؟ every correct question read as a cut-off sentence.
• Western digits by instruction, because the number check compares digits between source and translation and ٢٥ would fail against 25.
• Sound labels are verbal nouns. A model asked to translate [SHE LAUGHS] produced هي يضحك, a feminine subject with a masculine verb; the table renders the sound as a noun and the bug cannot recur.
• Modern Standard Arabic by instruction, understandable across the region, never one local dialect.
• A human reference was sourced and its score thrown out: the file stored right-to-left text in visual order and 55% of its units mismatched at both ends. No baseline is published until a logical-order reference exists.

Sound labels, from the table

Labels for the deaf and hard of hearing are resolved from a fixed Arabictable before the model sees the text, so they are never invented. Three entries, exactly as the table renders them:

[LAUGHS]

[يضحك]

[DOOR CLOSES]

[صوت إغلاق الباب]

[PHONE RINGS]

[رنين الهاتف]

Is Arabic measured?

A human reference for Arabic was sourced and its score thrown out: it stores RTL in visual order. A number from it would measure the file, not the translation. The same thirteen structural checks run on every Arabic cue regardless, and the quality report in your download lists what they found.

Price and time

One credit translates about 20,000 characters of dialogue, roughly a 25-minute episode; a feature film is about three. Credits are $1.25 each in packs, the first episode is free, and there is no subscription. An episode takes a few minutes; you get an email when it is ready.

Reading

• Why sound labels come from a table, not from the model
• How we score a machine translation against a human subtitler