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Guides to subtitles, transcription and translation

Practical walkthroughs for turning recordings into captions — what to do, what to skip, and why the choices matter.

How to Add Subtitles to a Video: A Complete Walkthrough

Four stages, start to finish: get a transcript, fix the parts that matter, decide between a subtitle file and burned-in captions, and ship it. Includes the settings that actually affect legibility.

How to Translate Subtitles Into Another Language Without an API Key

Translating captions usually means an account, a key and a per-word bill. Here is how to do it with a translation model running on your own computer instead — including which model size to pick.

Which Whisper Model Should You Use? A Practical Comparison

Six models from 75 MB to 2.9 GB, compared on size, speed and accuracy — plus the two-minute test that settles the question for your own audio instead of someone else's benchmark.

Why Offline Transcription Matters for Confidential Recordings

What "we don't train on your data" does and does not promise, which recordings genuinely need on-device processing, and the step most people forget after transcribing locally.