How to Automatically Transcribe and Add Subtitles to a Video Using Subtitle Edit 

I want to thank you again, Mr. David Mbugua, for your time and effort in making these explanatory videos of subtitle edit, they are very didactic and well elaborated. I also want to thank the developers of this wonderful free, open source tool who put a lot of effort and generosity into it for all of us to use. Unfortunately I have to say that the transcription tool is still not very reliable, at least what I humbly tested. I wanted to transcribe a video in English of approximately 40 minutes into Spanish. And the transcription is still not good, but let's hope that in future updates all this will improve. Subtitle version used edit 3.6.12 . Thank you so much .

Super useful video. Thank you David. I'm going to start subtitiling all of my videos from now on.

THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR WONDERFUL AND VERY SIMPLE AND CLEAR EXPLANATIONS TO USE THIS SOFTWARE! GOD BLESS YOU!

Well done, David -- very informative.

Clear & precise explanation, thanks for this Bro!

Brother David, I want to appreciate you for your amazing efforts. You are doing a great job 👍👍

I've been wanting this feature for years as I love watching foreign-language movies. I can understand German well, Dutch is okay, my French, though, is minimal, and as for Russian, forget it! But Subtitle Edit now allows me to generate subtitles, which I can translate to English either within SE or by using Google Translate. I never bind subtitles in a movie; I always use a .srt file. This really is fantastic software and I will be making a donation.

Just perfect, ma friend! Много благодаря!

Thank you Brother! Best Regards from Germany to Kenia ❤

Very competent tutorial. thank you

THANKYOU FOR THE TUTORIALLL!!! SUPER HELPFULL

Man, You're a life saver thank you!!!!

Great help. Thank you so much. 👏👏👏👍

Very well put together, thank you

Very helpful! Thanks a lot!

Thank you this helped me a lot with my own videos I make. For some reason the timecode in Premiere Pro was not in sync with the movie when it played in Vlc so my own manually made sub file was a little out of sync. When I used this software, it made everything right. Thanks for the guide which allowed me to learn this software.

Thank you very much for the video, I loved this program, very easy to use. It's not beautiful but it's functional

OMG, this is gonna make my work easier, thank you so much

I could not believe such a tool could be used for free it saved me hundreds of dollars I spent on online tool who were proposing me 60 minutes for Videos translation per year, for 150 dollars. Thank you very much for this amazing software!,,

Thanks. It saved me thousands in paid subsription to ai tools.

Nice video david! Do you know how one would use this to create word-by-word highlighted captions? Perhaps with the word that is being spoken as a different color (like green) from the normal text (white)? Do you know how you might stroke that font?

Thank you for explaining this.

Thank you for this helpful video!!!

Amazing, thanks David!

Thankyou so much dude!😀👍

Thanks for letting me know Subtitle Edit

Hi David nice video. I have the SE 365 version and extract the subtitles from the movie, to record it included in the movie. In the Video/generate video with embedded subtitles menu, I have already set the font size from 38 to 47 in "Video/Generate video with embedded subtitles" , and in the "options" / video player menu I have already set the size of the letter in 24, but the subtitle inserted in the recorded video, is always small. where can I in the SE365 put the subtitles to be recorded in larger size. ( my LG-TV plays movies with separate subtitles I don't have options, to increase the lyrics. on tv. thanks

This is neat, thanks!

thanks man very helpul video👏👏👏👏

Thank you man. I love you

Thanks a lot :3

Thank you sir very very much

Thank you so much!

veryyy goooodd, i just downloaded version 3.6.13 and it's cool!! just added English subtitles on my work, and looking forward for diff.languages and audio changing ....

This is truly life saving, thank you! If you can spare a moment, I want to be able to go to next and previous subtitle and play/pause video while typing. I set my preferred shortcuts for "go to next/previous" and "play/pause", but I have to click on the waveform so as to be able to use shortcuts. Do you have any idea of why this might be happening?

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Many many thanks for you! I didn't know that SubtitleEdit has feature for burning the subtitle. I always use third party software. Now it will be less time consuming. 🤙🤙

man , u r a genious , thanks !!!!

Very nice video!!

very usefull tnx

Excellent tutorial.

Thank you David, you videos are excellent! I wanted to ask if it is possible to save the new file as something other than the original name? I am very new to the Subtitle world and understand that the software will save the new subtitled file as the original name, is this right?

Thank you for sharing

Brother this helped me allot 😇

Hi David, first off thanks for the video, however I don't have the "Audio/video to text" function in my video dropdown menu. I have version 3.6.12. Is there a fix for this? Thanks again!

Hi, I tried it all out and the text if still very wrong. Are there options in this program to run it again or are there better ways to improve the subtitle recognition?

Thanks!

WOW! I was searching for such a Great video tutorial demonstration! Thank you for sharing this! 👍 That was really helpful. I have a question.. I want to put 2 language subtitles in English music videos. The 1st line would be English in yellow color and the 2nd line to be Greek subtitles in white color. Can I do that with this software? Thank you.

thanks man

Bundle of thanks

Thank you.

Thank you

very useful video.

thanks sir

Hi I have this problem when I saved a new file in Subtitle Edit using a different guiding format then trying to open a different file in subtitle edit, the newly open file kinda follows the previous saved format of the previous file. It's pretty hard to understand from my writing but I hope you can help. It's always like that. Can you help me with this? thank you

nice thanks i spent 20 min editing a vob file in this program fixing all the mistakes it made i am noob at this so might be easy way to do it but like i said i am a noob but did what you did in vid x2 faster and and much less mistake to fixs

what is the alternative for the same software in mac

thanks

This portable version doesnt offer an FFmeg download like the non portable version. What m I doing wrong ? Where am I supposed to get that from ?

great work david

Amazing video! I was wondering what are the minimum requirements for computer to burn in subtitles I would not like my computer to burn instead

bitte, I have the program subtitle edit 3.6.4 and tell me please, is it possible to translate the subtitles of films from english to french? and I also bought classic bollywood dvds which only have english subtitles. thank you my friends

daivid mbugua thanks

Thanks again! maybe you can make a video about translation to another language.

Wonderful! I also want to ask if there is a free program for Windows just like this but doing the opposite? You write the text in subtitle format. It vocalizes at the correct time.

Thank you thank you thank you so oOoOO much for this great information I really need this and I just got from your sources you r good person please solve one my problem how can I substitle into others language except English I want to subtitles in Urdu can u guide me use of other languages

How do I get the part for video/ audio to text on srt 3.6.1?

Great, I was able to it. May I ask if is possible how to remove the ones already encrusted on the video. Thanks

hello mr.david. I hope this time you can help me. Here I have installed se 3.6.5 again what i was able to do with this program is to extract the subtitles from the dvds, and to translate the subtitles. my big problem for months is not being able to have real subtitles. I have only words as you know in the subtitles there are words of agreement but also sentences. so today eight I tried to transcribe a French film to test, and I also had only words and what is funny it is that I chose of course the original spoken language spoken in the film, and what I got are still words in Hindi. because I need the subtle edit only for Hindu films. as you are an expert. I hope you will help me, I don't really know where the problem lies. I see that many people manage to transcribe films without any problem and unfortunately still not. I would like to send a photo so that you can see my result, but I do not know how to do thank you very much and my respects. and happy New Year

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mr.david i hope you will help me this time. i have 2 problems with the subtle edit. i can only generate subtitles perfectly in 2 languages. French and English. But when I want to do audio to tex or audio to tex video, for the Hindu and Arabic languages, it doesn't work at all. In the result, I only find words. It's not a under title. I hope you will help me this time. As you are an expert. it's been a year now I try without power. thank you, thank you very much and my respects

Hi, may i ask. what is the default font name and font size used in the video box, because when I try to burn the subtitle in the video, i can't find the font style that it used.

Unfortunarely for Japanese at least it appears to only do individual vocalisations (words and esp sentances are not consolidared resulting in a huge file with predominantly one and two character lines - could reflect the smaller (as opposed to Chinese for example) langauage file from Vosk?? This review (thanks) is excellent but perhaps for the future do English (as it's so universal ) AND another non-Latin type language?

Hi david, can I do this for regional language like Hindi etc...???

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Thank you but tell me one thing please. If i do as u showed on this video, the translated subtitle have a str (subrip) format instead ass (Advanced Sub Station Alpha) and if i just save, it generates the ass subtitle. Why? How can i embed to the video the translated subtitle with ass, instead str? Thanks!!!!

Wow .. this is a game changer .. But how much the accuracy of this machine subtitle?!

Can I extract the time codes only without having to do the transcription step? as it takes too long on big videos. And it can't pick my language anyway.

Hi, my laptop is unable to download the ffmpeg files please can you tell me the reason

hi i need to srt to voice, which program or online converter should I use ?

I need to extract Chinese characters from a Chinese video. Any chance to do it using Subtitle Edit to EXTRACT OUT the transcript file or .srt file?

hello, is there a way to change the length of the subtitle's background box? I need it to cover an existing subtitle but I can't find an option to change the length of the background box

Why does it not work for my video? If I use other speech to text software, they can recognize and transdribe just fine.

I downloaded vok (RAR) how I add it to subtitle Edit

can the srt file be translated?

the update doesnt have that it says vosk and whisper which one should or better we download and use?

Is there an app for this

i can't find the video/audio to text button in the 3.5.7v Can anyone help ?

What does "error log" mean?

Hi Please Make a video to auto add subtitles using AI in latest Subtitles Edit

Please help somebody! How can I add subtitles on the subtitles? It's like I need to place subtitles, which are translating some words in the video

I found a small program that help those who use Right to left Left for the combination Arabic- English called " subtitle RTL Corrector "

Can I save the auto generated subtitles as an srt file instead of burning them into the video file ?

Go to Video in the toolbar and select Show/Hide Waveform if your UI doesn't match his.

It automatically generates the punctuation?

Sir, please use OBS instead of Camtasia for recording your videos. It's much more lightweight and objectively better than using Camtasia.

Is it possible to save the auto generated subtitles as an SRT file instead of burning it into the video?

hi ! how can we have the srt file only

Does it work offline?

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