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Subtitles, audio and transcripts
What we've had to learn building a transcription service: how the formats work, what breaks them, and what actually makes a recording come out well.
- Subtitles6 min read
What is an SRT file
What's inside a .srt, why it's still the default subtitle format after thirty years, and the four mistakes that stop one from loading. - Subtitles6 min read
What is a VTT file
WebVTT is the subtitle format browsers actually read. What it adds over SRT, when you need it, and what the extras are for. - Subtitles7 min read
SRT vs VTT: which one do you need
The two formats side by side: what each one supports, who accepts which, and how to decide in ten seconds without reading the spec.
Where to start
Three articles, twenty minutes, and most of what there is to know about subtitles: what the two formats are, how they differ, and which one each program asks for. Each ends with the tool that solves what it explains, and all of them run inside your browser.
- Audio to text converter
- Video to text converter
- MP3 to text converter
- MP4 to text converter
- WAV to text converter
- M4A to text converter
- Automatic subtitle generator
- MP4 to SRT converter
- Audio to SRT converter
- MP4 to MP3 converter
- Video to audio converter
- Audio compressor
- Audio trimmer
- SRT to VTT converter
- VTT to SRT converter
- SRT to text converter