Translate Dutch video to English
Dutch translates into English at 15.9 BLEU with the Accurate model, in OpenAI’s figures: enough for a page here, though close to Shycut’s line of 15.
Drop your video here
Choose your videoMP4, MOV, WebM or MKV. It opens right here, on your device.
- Nothing uploaded
- No sign-up
- No watermark
How well it translates Dutch into English
| Model in Shycut | BLEU into English | From the paper |
|---|---|---|
| Accurate (Whisper small) | 15.9 | Table 14, “Whisper small” row, Dutch column · OpenAI |
| Fast (Whisper base) | 7.5 | Table 14, “Whisper base” row, Dutch column · OpenAI |
BLEU compares a machine translation with human ones; higher is closer. These are OpenAI’s scores on the FLEURS set.
Accurate scores 2.1 times as high as Fast here, so a translate link opens Shycut with Accurate chosen.
How often it gets a Dutch word wrong
| Model in Shycut | Word error rate | Roughly | From the paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accurate (Whisper small) | 16.4% | 1 word in 6 | Table 13, “Whisper small” row, Dutch column · OpenAI |
| Fast (Whisper base) | 33% | 1 word in 3 | Table 13, “Whisper base” row, Dutch column · OpenAI |
Word error rate is the share of words a model gets wrong (swapped, missed or added) against a human transcript, in OpenAI’s own test on the FLEURS speech set; lower is better.
Shycut runs these two models converted to work in a browser (with 8-bit or 4-bit weights on some devices), so its results can differ a little from the paper’s.
How the translation is made
- While it listens
- The speech model writes English as it hears the Dutch: no separate translation step, and nothing is sent anywhere.
- Timed to the speech
- Each line follows the speech it translates; the timing of single words is approximate, since English word order differs.
- Kept apart from the script
- English words aren’t the ones said, so Shycut doesn’t use them to cut the video or find hesitations; the Text tab offers to write the speech as spoken.
Near the line, so read it through
Dutch comes seventh of the 9 languages Shycut translates, just above the score Shycut asks before giving a language a page. Treat the English as a draft to correct.
The Fast model scores 7.5, so a translation always runs on Accurate from this page. Hearing Dutch is accurate to about 1 word in 6, which also limits the translation.
How to do it in Shycut
Open your video
The button opens Shycut set to translate Dutch speech into English, with the Accurate model chosen.
Write the English captions
The model listens to the speech and writes English lines, timed to it, on your device.
Check, then save
Read the lines through, correct what needs it, then save the video with them or download an SRT file.
Where these facts come from
Questions
How good is Dutch to English?
15.9 BLEU for Accurate and 7.5 for Fast, in OpenAI’s test.
Why does Shycut insist on the Accurate model?
For Dutch it translates 2.1 times as well as Fast in OpenAI’s figures.
Does anything leave my device?
No. The speech model runs in your browser.
Your video stays with you.
Open Shycut, drop the video in and export. Free, with no account, and your video never leaves your device.
Choose your video