Upload a Latvian video or audio file, or paste a link, and download timed subtitles in Latin script: SRT for YouTube and video editors, VTT for web players.
How it works
Drop a file, or paste a public link from YouTube, Google Drive or a podcast feed. Files over 500 MB continue on the upload page, up to 10 hours or 5 GB.
Read the first Latvian cues against the audio. Correct a line on the transcript and the subtitle file carries the correction.
SRT for YouTube Studio and video editors, VTT for web players. TXT, DOCX and JSON come from the same transcript.
What to expect with Latvian
For a transcript rather than subtitles, see transcribe Latvian, Latvian audio to text and Latvian YouTube video to text. For subtitles from any YouTube link, YouTube to SRT; for any file, the SRT generator.
Captioning Latvian
Latvian marks long vowels with a macron (ā, ē, ī, ū) and palatal consonants with a comma (ģ, ķ, ļ, ņ), and adds č, š and ž. Length changes the word: kazas (goats) and kāzas (wedding) differ by one mark. A subtitle file that loses its diacritics is not just informal; it says something else.
The usual cause is encoding. Old Latvian subtitle files were saved in Windows-1257, the Baltic code page, and a player expecting UTF-8 garbles them. The download is UTF-8; keep it that way through your editor. Lowercase ģ carries its comma above the letter while capital Ģ carries it below, so check a font draws both.
Latvian writes foreign names as they are pronounced and gives them a Latvian ending: Šekspīrs for Shakespeare, Džordžs for George. A published Latvian subtitle follows that rule even when the original spelling is familiar to the viewer, so the cues with foreign names are the ones to read against the convention.
Delivery
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Each cue is a phrase from the transcript with its start and end time. Most run a few seconds. A passage spoken without a pause can come out as one long cue of up to about half a minute, so split those in your editor if your platform wants two short lines at a time.
Cue times are taken from the recording itself, so the file lines up with the video or audio you uploaded. If you trim the start of the video afterwards, shift the cues by the same amount in your editor.
Open the transcript, correct a misheard name or number on its line, and the SRT and VTT you download carry the correction with the timing unchanged.
You get the subtitle file. Fonts, colours, position and captions drawn into the picture are done in your video editor or player, which reads this file.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per recording. The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; larger ones continue on the upload page. 99+ languages, detected automatically.
Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters. The cues in the subtitle file carry the words and their timing only.
Pricing
The preview is free. When the full transcript needs a pack, one-time packs are $6 for 500 minutes, $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, which comes to about $0.29 to $0.72 per hour of audio.
| Recording | $6 or $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-minute interview | $0.08 | $0.06 | $0.05 |
| 1-hour university seminar | $0.48 | $0.36 | $0.29 |
| 3-hour municipal meeting | $1.44 | $1.08 | $0.86 |
Figures are the share of a pack each recording uses. A button opens secure checkout for that pack. Every export format is included; full details on the pricing page.
FAQ
Upload the video or paste its link in the box on this page. The Latvian speech is transcribed in Latin script; read it through, correct any line, and download SRT or VTT from the transcript.
Yes. The output uses ā, ē, ī, ū, ģ, ķ, ļ, ņ, č, š and ž, and the file is UTF-8. If they break, a tool re-saved the file in a legacy encoding.
By Latvian convention, yes: names are written as pronounced, with a case ending (Šekspīrs). Check each foreign name in the cues against that rule before you publish.
We have not published a benchmark figure for Latvian, so we do not quote one. Use the preview to judge it on your own recording.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. Files over 500 MB continue on the upload page rather than in the box on this page.
Every page in this set uses the same upload box and the same export. All subtitle pages
First 20 minutes free. Latvian SRT and VTT from one upload; packs from $6 for 500 minutes.