Translate subtitles
to German

How it works for German

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 German 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 German profile checks

• German trips the 24 characters-per-second check more than any other language, 3.8% of cues after compression. The ceiling is not raised for it: reading speed belongs to the viewer, not the language, and a laxer limit would ship harder-to-read subtitles with a cleaner report.
• Repairs are only attempted where the translation is denser than its source. A slot the English already rushed is reported, not sent back, which cut German's repair requests by 52%.
• „…“ quotation marks by instruction; 60 German function words required, 22 known intrusions blocked.
• Scored 46.63 chrF++ against a human translation of four episodes.

Sound labels, from the table

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

[LAUGHS]

[LACHT]

[DOOR CLOSES]

[DIE TÜR SCHLIESST SICH]

[PHONE RINGS]

[DAS TELEFON KLINGELT]

Is German measured?

German has a measured baseline: 46.63 chrF++ against a professional human translation, over 1,420 aligned units. That figure is what every change to the pipeline has to beat for German. It is not comparable to another language's figure; here is why.

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

• The 24 characters per second rule, and what translation does to it