English subtitle & caption generator

Indian English carries names, places and words from other languages: a festival, a dish, a neighbourhood, a word like yaar dropped into a sentence. The transcript spells each one in Latin letters as it heard it, and many are spelt two ways in everyday writing, Ganpati or Ganapati, Bengaluru or Bangalore. Pick one form and correct it everywhere it appears; a correction is free and does not spend transcription minutes again.

When a speaker talks mostly in Hindi with English words mixed in, choose Hindi as the language rather than English. Transcribed as English, the clip is matched against English words, so Hindi phrases come back as English words that sound similar. Transcribed as Hindi with romanised output, the Hindi stays Hindi and still appears in Latin letters, the way Hinglish captions are usually written.

On a single-line template, Max words per caption, in the caption settings, sets how many words appear together, from one to eight. Fewer words means more captions, each on screen for a shorter time, which suits fast vertical video; more words suits a talk or an interview where the viewer has time to read a full phrase.

Two other settings sit beside it. Min duration keeps a very short caption on screen long enough to be read, and Gap between captions sets how long the screen may stay empty between one caption and the next before the next one appears.

The text case buttons set a template in capitals or small caps. Capitals look louder and suit a few words at a time; across a longer line every letter is the same height, so word shapes are harder to tell apart and the line reads more slowly than mixed case.

Condensed faces fit more on a row, and bolder faces hold up over a busy background. Among the faces the templates use:

Up to one word per caption arrives marked for emphasis, shown on templates that style an emphasised word. The automatic pick skips words such as the, is, and and you, but it cannot know which word the speaker leaned on. Click that word and press E to mark it, or press E again to clear it; S does the same for the spotlight, where the template has one.

Letter spacing, Word spacing and Line spacing are in the style panel. Wide letter spacing suits capitals more than lowercase, and where a template stacks several rows, Line spacing keeps them from crowding each other.