German Subtitle Generator

German speech and dialects

German transcribes very well, including Austrian and Swiss Standard German, and nouns come out capitalised as they should. Spoken Swiss German dialect (Schweizerdeutsch) is different: it is recognised poorly, so a video in dialect needs heavy correction or a different approach. For German speech turned into English subtitles, use the German to English video translator.

Wide lines from compound nouns

German builds long compound words, such as "Datenschutzgrundverordnung", that can't be broken mid-word. A cue with two or three of them gets wide, and on a phone screen it may wrap awkwardly. Each cue is a single line covering one stretch of speech, so where one is too wide, split it into two cues at a pause.

Where to break a German cue

Separable verbs put their prefix at the end of the clause: "Wir rufen Sie morgen an." If a cue break falls before "an", the meaning stays open until the next cue. When you split long cues, keep the verb and its prefix together where you can, and break after a comma or at the end of a clause. Subtitle segmentation covers line breaks in more detail.

Translating into German: du or Sie

A translation into German has to choose between informal "du" and formal "Sie". Marketing aimed at young viewers often uses "du"; corporate training, B2B and legal content usually uses "Sie". Check the translated file for consistency, because the form can switch when the source is ambiguous. Swiss readers write "ss" where Germany and Austria use "ß", so replace it in one pass for a Swiss audience.

Using the file

Upload the SRT in YouTube Studio under German, or import it into Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve as a caption track. Umlauts and ß are stored as UTF-8 and display correctly in current players.

What German 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.

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.