One source SRT became six market-ready files with timing untouched. Our agency quoted two weeks for the same job.
English → Spanish · timing preserved: Translate Subtitles from English to Spanish
Spanish expands over English and splits into European and Latin American conventions, which changes vocabulary and forms of address. Upload an SRT, VTT or video and get Spanish captions with the timing untouched.
SRT & VTT in and out · videos up to 8 GB · no credit card needed
Timing stays. Spanish comes in.
launch-video.srtENES
100:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,100
We rebuilt the studio in winter.Reformamos el estudio en invierno.
200:00:03,300 --> 00:00:06,000
And since then every episode sounds warmer.Desde entonces cada episodio suena más cálido.
300:00:06,200 --> 00:00:07,900
People hear it right away.La gente lo nota enseguida.
Timecodes untouched
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What Changes When English Becomes Spanish
Three things worth knowing before you ship Spanish captions.
Ordenador or computadora, coger or tomar, vosotros or ustedes — the choices are not stylistic, they mark who the subtitles are for. A file that mixes both reads as neither. Deciding the variant before translating matters more for Spanish than for almost any other language, because the audience split is genuinely large on both sides.
Prepositional phrases replace English noun stacking, and verb forms are longer. Lines that were comfortable in English need trimming, especially in fast dialogue where reading speed is already at the limit.
Questions and exclamations open with ¿ and ¡. Omitting them is a common artefact of translation tools that treat Spanish as English with different words, and it is immediately visible to any reader.
One English cue, translated into Spanish
Spanish adds length and opens every question with ¿.
- 00:00:02,500 → 00:00:05,200
English: Turn on notifications so you don’t miss it.
Spanish: Activa las notificaciones para no perdértelo.
- 00:00:05,600 → 00:00:07,000
English: How can I help you?
Spanish: ¿En qué puedo ayudarte?
The first line grows from 43 to 45 characters. The second opens with ¿ and uses informal tú; addressing a customer formally it would be “¿En qué puedo ayudarle?”.
English → Spanish, Done Right
Spanish runs longer than English; the cues stay where they were.
One Spanish target, reviewed by you
Spanish is one target language, not separate Spain and Latin American options. Review vocabulary and forms of address in the editor so the whole file speaks to one audience.
Punctuation done properly
Opening ¿ and ¡ appear where they belong, along with Spanish quotation conventions.
Cues keep their English timing
Spanish lines inherit the start and end time of each English cue, so longer phrasing is tightened rather than re-synced.
Regional choices reviewed in place
Each Spanish line sits next to its English original, so vocabulary for Spain or Latin America is easy to check line by line.
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Spanish subtitles doubled our views from the region within a quarter. The tool paid for itself instantly.
No card, no tricks — I tested real files before paying and upgraded a week later because the workflow stuck.
Had trouble with a huge file — support walked me through batch upload the same morning. Rare these days.
Seeing source and translation together makes QA fast. We ship subtitles the same day we cut the video.
Uploaded a two-hour recording during lunch — the transcript was waiting before I finished my coffee. The accuracy genuinely surprised me.
Our legal team approved it because processing stays on EU infrastructure. That alone ruled out most of the competition.
Upload your English SRT or VTT file, or the video itself, and choose Spanish as the target language. BlaBlaScribe translates every line with AI and keeps the original timestamps, so the Spanish subtitles stay in sync with the speech. Fix the wording in the editor, then download SRT or VTT or export an MP4 with the subtitles burned in. Translation is available on paid plans from $14 a month.
Not as a separate option: Spanish is one target language. Every line can be edited before export, so you can adjust vocabulary and forms of address (vosotros or ustedes, ordenador or computadora) for the audience you want to reach.
Spanish typically runs 20–25% longer than English, so lines are compressed during translation to stay inside the two-line limit rather than overflowing.
Yes. Questions and exclamations are punctuated the Spanish way, not carried over from English.
Common streaming guidelines allow about 42 characters per line and two lines per cue. Spanish often lands near the limit, so sentences are condensed rather than split into a third line.
Yes. Pick a caption style and export an MP4 with the Spanish subtitles burned in; it renders in your browser. Check that ñ, accents and ¿ ¡ display correctly in the preview before exporting the full video.