Subtitles for YouTubers

What you do and what we do

We turn the speech in your file into timed text and export it as SRT or VTT. You upload that file to YouTube. We never sign in to YouTube and cannot publish anything to your channel, and we do not fetch a video from a link: you upload the file from your editor, which is also the cleanest source.

Step by step

1. Export your finished video, or just its audio, from your editor.
2. Upload it above, pick the spoken language, and wait for the transcript.
3. Fix wrong words and names in the editor, then choose SRT in the export menu.
4. Open YouTube Studio, go to your video's subtitles section and look for the option to upload a file. Menu names change, so check YouTube Help for the current wording and for which file types it accepts.
5. Preview the video with subtitles on and check the timing.

Make the lines readable

In the SRT, each cue follows one transcript segment, which is how the speech was split, not the short two-line style viewers expect. If lines are too long, run the file through the subtitle line splitter before uploading. Check line breaks around names and numbers, and keep an eye on fast speech where captions flash by.

Your own content only

Make subtitles for videos you made or may caption. Music in the soundtrack is not transcribed well, and subtitles that translate or add information beyond the speech are your own editing. Uploading sends the file to our server.

Drafts you review

The first pass is a draft. Subtitles are public text under your name, so read them end to end with the video. Without an account one file can be up to 15 minutes and 25 MB. A free account lifts those per-file limits and keeps your transcripts in a library you can search, so for a full-length recording create one instead of cutting the file up. For other platforms, audio to SRT and audio to VTT explain the formats.