How to create subtitles automatically

Automatic captions are good enough to publish as-is less often than people assume. The error rate on auto-generated subtitles isn't actually higher than plain transcription — it's the same underlying speech recognition — but the mistakes are far more visible. A wrong word in a transcript you skim is easy to miss; the same wrong word sitting on screen, in front of the speaker's face, for two seconds, reads as sloppy even when a viewer could obviously tell what was meant.

The workflow that actually holds up

Generate first, then always read the result before publishing — treat the auto-generated file as a very fast first draft, not a finished product. Names, technical terms, and homophones ("their" vs "there," a product name that sounds like a common word) are the errors to specifically look for, since those are exactly the words a model is most likely to guess wrong.

Subtitle Generator produces standard, millisecond-timed SRT from either a video or an audio-only file, with the result shown in an editable text area before you download it — so the proofread and the fix happen in the same step, not as a separate download-edit-reupload cycle. That matters more once you're ready to burn the subtitles permanently into the video: unlike a soft subtitle track, a burned-in caption can't be edited afterward, so it's worth getting right before that step, not after.