Levantine Arabic
English subtitles for Levantine Arabic videos
Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian or Jordanian: upload your video and Captionr transcribes the dialect the way you speak it, translates it into natural English and times every caption to your Arabic words.
- Levantine gets the most tuning
- $0.15 a minute, no subscription
- SRT and VTT export
today we're cooking maqluba
Arabic speech
اليوم2.06رح2.52نطبخ2.71مقلوبة3.24
- English caption
- today we're cooking maqluba
- Caption timing
- 00:02.06 → 00:03.93 taken from the Arabic words
Why auto captions struggle with Levantine
Many automatic caption tools treat spoken Arabic as if it were Modern Standard Arabic. Dialect words get misheard or rewritten into formal Arabic, names come out wrong, and once the text is machine translated the English loses your tone and drifts away from the moment you said it.
How Captionr handles Levantine
Your dialect stays your dialect
After transcription, every line is corrected against Levantine guidance. Words such as shu, halla, kteer and baddi are correct as spoken, so they are kept, not swapped for formal Arabic.
Translated with the whole video in view
Each caption is translated with the lines around it and the dialect named, so “ya jamaa” becomes “Hi everyone”, not “O group”, and your jokes keep their meaning.
English stays English
Many Levantine speakers switch to English in the middle of a sentence. Those lines are detected and kept exactly as you said them.
Timing from your Arabic words
Each English caption starts and ends on the Arabic words it translates, never on the translation, so captions land on the beat.
Every caption is checked before you see it
Captions that are too long or too fast are hard to follow on a phone. These limits are applied to every line of every video.
- 2 lines
- at most, of up to 42 characters each
- 1 to 7 s
- on screen for each caption
- 20 a second
- the most characters a viewer has to read
What you download
A standard SRT or VTT file. YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook and most video editors read it, and your captions appear in sync.
1
00:00:00,420 --> 00:00:01,740
Hi everyone,
2
00:00:02,060 --> 00:00:03,930
today we're cooking maqluba
3
00:00:04,180 --> 00:00:05,860
the way my grandma makes it.Three steps from upload to captions
- 1
Upload your video
Drop in an MP4, MOV or audio file up to 2 GB. If your connection drops, the upload picks up where it stopped.
- 2
Check the price and pay
We read the length and show you the exact price: $0.15 a minute, $2.00 at least. You pay once for that video. There is no subscription.
- 3
Download your captions
When the status says Ready to review, download SRT or VTT, read the captions through and publish them with your video.
Questions creators ask
Does it work for Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian and Jordanian Arabic?
Yes. Captionr treats them as one Levantine dialect, which is how they are usually grouped, and that dialect gets the most tuning today. Pick Levantine under Dialect when you upload, or leave it at Not sure and we work it out from the speech. Regional words and pronunciation differ between cities, so read the captions before you publish, especially for names of people and places.
Do I have to tell you which dialect I speak?
No, but it helps. If you leave Dialect at Not sure, we listen to your video and name the dialect once we have heard at least 25 words and the answer is clear. If the speech is too short or too mixed to tell, we caption it as general spoken Arabic. You can change the language and dialect on the video page until you pay. Read the upload guide
My video mixes Levantine with English or formal Arabic. Is that a problem?
No. Lines spoken in English are detected and kept in English in every caption file, including the translation. Formal Arabic lines, such as a quote or a news clip inside your video, are transcribed and translated like the rest. Pick the language most of the video is in.
Can I fix a caption before I publish it?
Yes. Download the SRT or VTT file and change any line in a text editor or in your video editing app; the timing stays as it is. An editor inside the app, where you can read and fix captions next to your video, is being built. Read the download guide
How much does a Levantine video cost?
The same as any other video: $0.15 per minute, rounded up to the next whole minute, with a $2.00 minimum. A 10 minute vlog costs $2.00, a 20 minute episode $3.00 and a one hour podcast $9.00. You see the price before you pay, and there is no subscription. See pricing
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