Translate Video to Hebrew

What to expect when translating into Hebrew

Hebrew is written right to left, usually without vowel marks, and many words carry gender — so the translation can get the gender of 'you' or of the speaker wrong. Check forms of address in the transcript.

The Hebrew voice track

Hebrew marks gender on verbs for 'I' and 'you', so choose a voice that matches the original speaker to keep voice and translation consistent.

Voice, MP4, subtitles and transcripts: 500 credits (50¢). Subtitles and transcripts only: 10 credits (1¢).

Hebrew subtitles

Hebrew SRT and VTT files display right to left in players that support it; numbers and English words inside a line can shift position, so preview mixed lines.

Hebrew (עברית) is written in the Hebrew alphabet. It is written right to left; SRT and VTT files store the text correctly, and players that support right-to-left text display it properly.

Switch Full translation output off for subtitles only: 17 credits (1.7¢). If the video is already in Hebrew, select Hebrew as the language instead and the subtitles come back untranslated — see Hebrew transcription.

Translating audio files into Hebrew

Podcasts and recordings go through the audio translator, which returns a Hebrew M4A and transcripts: 1,500 credits ($1.50) with voice, 30 credits (3¢) as text only.

Who translates into Hebrew

Hebrew is spoken in Israel and Jewish communities worldwide. It's used by Israeli tech companies localising demos, universities, and organisations communicating with Hebrew-speaking communities.

Why punctuation looks misplaced in a Hebrew SRT

Subtitle files store Hebrew in reading order, the order the words are spoken. How it looks on screen is decided by the editor or player, which has to apply the Unicode bidirectional rules. Tools that do this poorly show a final period or question mark at the wrong end of the line, or shuffle a line where Hebrew sits next to English words or numbers.

Fix the display, not the data. If you move the period to the start of the line so it looks right in one editor, it will be wrong in every player that handles right-to-left text properly. Check the subtitles in the player your viewers actually use, such as a browser player with the VTT file or the platform you upload to. Right-to-left video localization covers player support in depth, and subtitles showing strange characters helps when letters turn into boxes.

Lines that mix scripts deserve a second look. In "גרסה 2.5 של Excel" the number and the product name run left to right inside a right-to-left sentence. Problems show up most often when a Latin word or figure sits at the very start or end of a line, so rewording to move it inside the sentence often settles the display.

Addressing a whole audience

English "you" spoken to a room becomes plural in Hebrew. The masculine plural (אתם) has traditionally served as the generic form, the feminine plural (אתן) addresses an all-female group, and many organisations now write both, using slash forms such as מוזמנים/ות. Machine translation sometimes renders a presenter's "you" as singular masculine (אתה), as if one man were being addressed. Search the translated subtitles for the singular forms in lines spoken to the audience, then decide on one convention for the whole video.

Time references need a cultural check too. The Israeli working week runs Sunday to Thursday and the weekend is Friday and Saturday, so "see you Monday" or "over the weekend" in a scheduling announcement may need adjusting rather than translating word for word. Dates are written day first (1.10.2026 or 1/10/2026), and an American-style 10/1 in the source can easily end up meaning the wrong day.

Names, brands and missing vowels

Foreign names reach Hebrew in two ways: transliterated into Hebrew letters (גוגל for Google) or kept in Latin script, which is common for software and product names. The translation can do either, and not always the same way twice. Choose a convention per name and apply it across the subtitle file; translation versus transliteration explains the trade-offs.

Everyday Hebrew is written without vowel marks, so one spelling can stand for several words: ספר can be read as sefer (book), sapar (barber) or siper (he told). Any synthetic voice has to infer the vowels from context. When you play the dub preview, listen for words read with the wrong vowels, especially names and short phrases with little context around them; slowing the preview to 0.75× makes them easier to catch.

Check the text before paying for voice

The cheap first run is a decision tool. Corrected text cannot be fed back into a voice track, because there is no subtitle import, so if the review shows heavy fixes are needed (forms of address, names, terms), you may decide that edited Hebrew subtitles serve the audience better than a dub. The subtitle generator page explains the subtitle-only route.

Verify in the player, the text and the voice

• Punctuation sits on the correct side in the target player, not only in your editor.
• Lines spoken to the audience use the plural, with one gender convention throughout.
• The speaker's first-person forms match the gender of the voice you chose.
• Each foreign name uses one convention: Hebrew letters or Latin script.
• Dates in day-month-year order and prices with the shekel sign placed consistently.
• The dub preview has no words read with the wrong vowels.

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 translated video that keeps your music and effects, the translated audio as M4A, a transcript and subtitles (SRT and VTT). Every output, step and limit is explained on the video translator page.