Upload a Yiddish video or audio file, or paste a link, and download timed subtitles in Hebrew script, right to left: 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 Yiddish 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 Yiddish
For a transcript rather than subtitles, see transcribe Yiddish, Yiddish audio to text and Yiddish YouTube video to text. For subtitles from any YouTube link, YouTube to SRT; for any file, the SRT generator.
Captioning Yiddish
Yiddish is written right to left in Hebrew letters, but unlike Hebrew it writes its vowels: אַ, אָ, ע, י, ו and their pointed forms. Those points are combining marks, so the font has to place them on the letter. Noto Sans Hebrew and Arial do; many decorative Hebrew fonts do not, and the vowels then float or disappear.
Two spelling traditions are in use. YIVO spelling, taught in schools and universities, writes Germanic and Slavic words phonetically; Hasidic publications often write words closer to German and leave out pointing. Words from Hebrew and Aramaic are spelled as in Hebrew in both. The transcript leans toward YIVO; if your audience reads the other, correct the repeated words before you download.
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 $4 for 500 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, which comes to about $0.29 to $0.48 per hour of audio.
| Recording | $4 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20-minute shiur | $0.16 | $0.12 | $0.10 |
| 1-hour lecture | $0.48 | $0.36 | $0.29 |
| 2-hour wedding video | $0.96 | $0.72 | $0.58 |
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 Yiddish speech is transcribed in Hebrew script, right to left; read it through, correct any line, and download SRT or VTT from the transcript.
It leans toward YIVO orthography. Hasidic spelling differs for many words, so correct the repeated ones to your audience's spelling before you download.
The font cannot place combining marks. Use Noto Sans Hebrew or Arial for the subtitle track.
Words from Hebrew and Aramaic are kept in their Hebrew spelling, as in both Yiddish traditions. Plan a full review pass, as the transcription notes say.
We have not published a benchmark figure for Yiddish, so we do not quote one. Judge it on your own recording: the free preview (free preview of the opening minutes) shows the text before you pay.
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
Free preview of the opening minutes. Yiddish SRT and VTT from one upload; packs from $4 for 500 minutes.