French SRT Translator
Send an .srt file, get it back in French within 24 hours — same cue count, same timestamps, nothing shifted.
Check your French .srt before you pay anyone
Drop a subtitle file below. It runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploaded, nothing leaves your machine. You get the cue count, the worst reading speeds, the lines that are too long for French, and a corrected .srt you can download and keep whether or not you ever buy anything.
Drop your .srt here, or click to choose
.srt and .vtt · checked against 15 characters/second and 42 characters/line
Why French subtitles specifically
French viewers expect subtitles rather than dubbing for anything informational, and French-language video rules in Canada, Belgium, Switzerland and much of West Africa. French subtitle files are steady, unglamorous, everyday work.
The part most tools get wrong
French uses a narrow no-break space before ? ! : ; and inside guillemets. Most converters strip it, and to any native reader that single missing space is the tell that a machine did the job.
That is why this is not a one-click converter. Every file goes through machine translation first, then a manual pass on cue length, line breaks and reading speed before it reaches you.
Reading speed in French
French reads at about 15 characters per second, but the real constraint is that French is 15–20% longer than English in characters. A two-line cue in English frequently needs three lines in French, so cues have to be merged or the wording tightened rather than simply translated.
French subtitle conventions most converters ignore
- Guillemets « like this » with non-breaking spaces, not straight quotes.
- Decimal comma, and a space as the thousands separator: 1 234,56.
- Capitalisation of titles is far lighter than in English — sentence case, not Title Case.
What you get back
- The same number of cues, in the same order, with the same cue numbers.
- Timestamps untouched — only the text between the timing lines is replaced.
- Line breaks re-cut for French reading speed, not inherited from English.
- A file that opens in VLC without a single warning.
That button opens your own email app. If nothing happens when you click it, just write to gwdaeoi@outlook.com and attach the file — same thing, no account, no form.
Questions
Is the checker really free?
Yes, and it does not upload your file anywhere. It parses the subtitle locally in your browser, reports what is wrong, and hands you back a corrected .srt. If that is all you needed, take the file and go.
How long does one file take?
Under 24 hours for anything up to 60 minutes of runtime. A full season is usually 3–5 days depending on how many languages you need.
Can you match an existing French subtitle style?
Yes — send one episode you already like and I will match its capitalisation, punctuation and line-break habits across the rest.
What if the timing is off?
It will not be, because timestamps are never regenerated. If a specific cue still plays wrong, tell me the cue number and it gets fixed the same day.
Do you keep my files?
No. The original and the translation are deleted 24 hours after delivery.