✳ WORKFLOW
Turn a subtitle file into a clean transcript
Turn a caption file into usable text, and check the captions themselves for the timing problems that make them hard to read.
The decision that matters: Whether the captions are worth reusing as-is. If reading speed is above roughly 20 characters per second, the text was written for a machine, not a reader.
Step by step
- Check the caption file first
Reading speed, overlaps and over-long lines tell you whether the source captions are usable.
Subtitle checker - Fix the timing if it drifts
A constant offset is fixable in one pass; progressive drift is a frame-rate mismatch and is not.
Shift subtitle timing - Convert to the format you need
Browser players need VTT; most editors and upload forms want SRT.
SRT to VTT
What this path cannot do
- These tools read the caption file only. They cannot generate captions from audio.
- Formatting tags are stripped from the statistics but preserved in conversions.
Koldflux runs this whole sequence automatically from one source recording.
Automate this in Koldflux