Arabic Subtitle Generator

Three kinds of Arabic subtitle job

Arabic speech → Arabic subtitles

Choose Arabic as the language; the speech is transcribed in Arabic script and timed into cues

English or another supported language → Arabic subtitles

Choose Arabic; the speech is transcribed in its own language, translated and timed into Arabic cues

Arabic speech → English subtitles

Choose English instead; the Arabic to English video translator page covers that direction

Every run also returns a plain transcript and a timestamped transcript. Leave "Full translation output" off for subtitles only; switching it on adds a translated voice and costs more.

Standard Arabic, dialects and mixed speech

Subtitles from a lecture, a news-style talk or a khutbah delivered in Modern Standard Arabic come out cleanest. Everyday speech in Egyptian, Levantine, Gulf or Maghrebi Arabic is transcribed too, but dialect words have no fixed spelling, so the same word can be written two ways in one file, and some dialect words are nudged toward a Standard Arabic form. Speakers who switch into French or English mid-sentence produce more errors at the switch. For a vlog in dialect, read the subtitles once against the video before publishing. Darija, the furthest dialect from Standard Arabic, needs the closest review; test a few minutes first.

Right-to-left punctuation in an SRT

Arabic subtitles are stored in reading order, and the player decides how to display each line using the Unicode bidirectional rules. That works for plain Arabic. Trouble starts when a cue ends with a question mark or full stop, or begins or ends with a Latin word or a number: some players and editors then show the punctuation at the wrong end of the line, or put a brand name on the wrong side. mydubly doesn't insert invisible direction marks into the file, so if you see this, add a right-to-left mark (U+200F) at the start or end of the affected cues. Free subtitle editors such as Subtitle Edit have right-to-left fixes that add these marks for a whole file. Always test the file in the player your audience actually uses. The Arabic article on RTL problems in SRT files walks through the fixes in Arabic, and right-to-left video localization explains the background.

Vowel marks, digits and punctuation

• No tashkeel: the subtitles are written without short-vowel marks, as in everyday Arabic. For Quranic verses, hadith or poetry quoted in a talk, paste the exact text from an authoritative source rather than correcting the machine draft letter by letter.
• Digits: Arabic audiences differ on Western (3) and Eastern Arabic (٣) numerals. Check which your file uses and replace them in one pass if your viewers expect the other style.
• Punctuation: look for Latin commas and question marks where the Arabic forms (، and ؟) belong, and standardise them.

Arabic text in video editors

The SRT itself imports into Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and most other editors. Displaying Arabic correctly inside the editor is a separate question. In Premiere Pro, set the text engine to the South Asian and Middle Eastern option in the Graphics preferences before working with Arabic captions, and pick a font with Arabic letters. In any editor, check the preview: if letters appear separated instead of joined, or a line reads backwards, the font or text engine isn't handling Arabic shaping. The DaVinci Resolve subtitle guide covers importing and styling a subtitle track. On YouTube, upload the SRT under Arabic in YouTube Studio; viewers' apps handle the display, so you don't need to burn the text in.

What Arabic subtitles cost

Subtitles cost 1 credit per minute with a 5-credit minimum per file, and the 100 free credits from signing in with Google cover 100 minutes. Top-ups are charged in Indian rupees at the day's exchange rate through Cashfree Payments (UPI, cards or netbanking), about ₹96 for 1,000 credits. No watermark is added, and the video stays on your device; only its audio is sent for transcription.

What it doesn't do

• Subtitles come as SRT/VTT files. To burn them into the picture, open them in the free subtitle editor, which also fixes lines and timing.
• No speaker names, and no translation of an existing SRT: the editor can open one but not translate it.
• Files only: no YouTube or TikTok links. For an Arabic transcript as a document, use Arabic video to text; for an Arabic voice track, use the Arabic video translator.

Using the tool on this page

• The spoken language is detected automatically; you select the output language — the spoken language itself for an untranslated transcript, or another language for a translation. Files can be up to 2 hours long.
• Only the audio is sent for processing — the video stays on your device — and audio and text are deleted within 30 minutes of delivery (how files are protected).
• You can download a timestamped transcript, subtitles (SRT and VTT) and plain text. Every output, step and limit is explained on the subtitle generator page.