How to add subtitles to video

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On your video
3:35
It's kind of like a dark art, actually
The file you get
captions.srt
100:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,400Once you're into image and video gen,
200:03:31,400 --> 00:03:35,200there's a lot of curationand proper prompting
300:03:35,200 --> 00:03:38,600It's kind of like a dark art, actually

Short, readable lines timed to the speech, no speaker labels burned in. A standard SRT or VTT file that opens in any editor or player

How it works

How to convert video to subtitles in 3 steps

  1. Upload your video

    Drop your video or click to upload, MP4, MOV, WebM, MP3, M4A, and more all work

  2. Pick language and model

    Auto-detect the language or pick from 100+, then run free Turbo for speed or Studio for top accuracy

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Benefits

Why convert video to subtitles?

Adding subtitles to your video turns a video people watch into something they can also read, search, and repurpose. Instead of typing and timing every line by hand, you get clean, editable subtitles in seconds.

  • Save hours of manual work

    Turn video into editable subtitles in seconds instead of typing it out by hand

  • Make it searchable

    Find any quote or moment in your video without replaying the whole recording

  • Improve accessibility

    Give Deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences readable text and meet accessibility standards

  • Repurpose your content

    Turn one video file into articles, notes, captions, and social posts

  • Ready-to-use captions

    Export timed SRT subtitles that drop straight into any video editor or player

How subtitles work

Adding subtitles to a video means creating a subtitle file, an SRT or VTT, whose cues line up with the speech, then loading it into your player or editor or burning it into the picture. Typist does the slow part for you: it transcribes the audio with word-level timing and writes short, readable cues, so you skip typing and timing every line by hand.

What decides accuracy

Only the audio track is transcribed and the picture is ignored, so resolution and frame rate do not change the captions. MP4, MOV, and WebM all work. Typist sets each cue boundary from word-level timing and groups words into short readable lines, so you can soft-load the subtitles or hardcode them into the video later.

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bio-101-lecture.mp31:12:04

00:00Alright everyone, let's pick up where we left off last week on cellular respiration.

00:11The mitochondrion is the site of cellular respiration, where most of the cell’s ATP is produced.

00:24Remember, ATP is the energy currency - basically every process in the cell pays for it.

00:37The inner membrane folds inward into structures we call cristae.

00:46Those folds dramatically increase the surface area available for the reactions.

00:58More surface area means more electron transport chains, and that means more ATP.

01:12There are three stages: glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation.

01:25Be able to tell glycolysis and the Krebs cycle apart - that is a common exam trap.

01:38We go deeper into the electron transport chain Thursday, so read chapter nine first.

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