Bringing a Faroese video in
Drop in the video file without converting it: MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI, 3GP or a screen recording from your phone. The sound is pulled out on our server, and every timestamp points to the same moment in the original video. If the video is online, use Import from link: public YouTube, TikTok and Vimeo videos, Dropbox and Google Drive share links and direct file links all work. Only the audio is fetched, one video per link, and several links can wait in the queue.
The draft then appears next to the player; click a line to replay it while you fix it.
A rough draft, honestly
Faroese is spoken by a small population and has very little training data in the model. Expect a rough draft with many corrections. The model knows Icelandic, Danish and Norwegian far better, and it may slip into their spellings. Slow, clear speech from one person close to the microphone gives the best result. Even so, a timed draft is a faster start than typing every word, and the timestamps are ready for subtitles.
Faroese spelling keeps ð even where it is not pronounced, and uses á, í, ó, ú, ý, æ and ø. Since spelling and sound are far apart, the draft often gets these wrong; check them carefully. Danish words and sentences are common, especially in official and older speech, and may come out in Danish spelling.
Faroese videos worth transcribing
What people upload:
- Clips from Faroese TV and radio, for quotes and archives.
- Interviews with older islanders for local history and dialect collections.
- School and university lessons taught in Faroese.
- YouTube videos, short films and music videos with spoken parts.
- Church services and community meetings.
Faroese subtitles
Export SRT or VTT for Faroese subtitles. The UTF-8 files keep ð, ø and the accented vowels in YouTube Studio and video editors. Subtitle lines come from the corrected text, so edit before exporting.
DOCX and PDF suit archive records. Speaker labels are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
English and audio recordings
The transcript is written in Faroese as it was spoken; nothing is translated. To read it in English, open the Google Translate link on the transcript, or use the AI prompt export to hand the text to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. For recordings without video, see the Faroese audio to text page.