Generate SRT subtitles timed to what is said.
Upload a recording or paste a link and download an SRT file timed to the speech. Correct any line first, then drop the file into YouTube Studio, a video editor or a player.
How it works
How to make an SRT file in three steps.
Upload or paste a link
Drop a video or audio file into the box above, or paste a public link from YouTube, Google Drive, TikTok and other sources. Files over 500 MB continue on the upload page.
Review the transcript
Most files are ready in under a minute. Correct names and terms on their lines; the corrections go into the file you download.
Download .srt
Open the download menu and choose .srt. VTT, TXT, DOCX and JSON come from the same transcript.
What you get
An SRT that drops cleanly into any editor.
Timed to the speech
Each cue is a spoken phrase with its start and end time, measured from the audio. Most cues run a few seconds; a passage with no pause can be longer, and splits cleanly in any subtitle editor.
Long files in one piece
Recordings up to 10 hours or 5 GB come back as one SRT with a continuous clock, so there is nothing to stitch together.
Correct before you download
Fix a misheard name on its line in the transcript; the SRT you download carries the correction with the timing unchanged.
Editor-ready format
Plain UTF-8 SRT with sequential numbering and hh:mm:ss,ms timing. Imports into YouTube Studio, Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, CapCut and VLC.
Why a file of your own
Auto-captions vs a real SRT.
✗ Platform auto-captions
Automatic captions arrive on the platform's schedule, stay on that platform, and are missing or weak for many languages.
- Tied to one platform
- No file to take into an editor
- Labelled auto-generated
- Often missing for non-English content
- Names and terms left uncorrected
✓ A real Whipscribe SRT
A file you own: timed cues you can correct, download and use anywhere. Packs from $4 cover long files and whole batches.
- A start and end time on every cue
- Correct a line before downloading
- 99+ languages, auto-detected
- SRT and VTT from the same job
- Imports into any editor or player
Sample SRT
What the output looks like.
Real output: a public-domain reading of the Gettysburg Address, transcribed here in October 2026.
SRT by hand, or from a Word script
How to make an SRT file without a generator.
An SRT is a plain text file. If your video is short and you already have the words, you can type one yourself.
1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,200 Welcome back to the channel. 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,900 Today we are making a subtitle file from scratch.
- Each cue is a number, a timing line in the form
hours:minutes:seconds,milliseconds --> hours:minutes:seconds,milliseconds, one or two lines of text, then a blank line. - On Windows, type it in Notepad and choose Save as, encoding UTF-8, with a name ending in
.srt. On a Mac, open TextEdit, choose Format, then Make Plain Text, and save with.srtat the end. - Word cannot save an SRT. Copy the text out of the Word document into a plain-text editor first and add the numbers and times there.
The hard part is the times: you have to play the video and note when each line starts and ends. That is what a generator does for you. If you have the video and a written script, upload the video here, then correct the lines to match your script on the transcript; the SRT you download keeps the times measured from the audio.
Measured
How long an SRT takes to generate.
From our production record, 30 days to 2026-10-27: half of all recordings under 10 minutes were transcribed within 13 seconds, half of the 30 to 60 minute ones within 1.6 minutes, and half of the one-to-two-hour ones within 3 minutes. The SRT is ready the moment the transcript is. Uploading a large video takes as long as your connection needs; a public link is fetched from its source instead. Full record: turnaround proof.
Export
One transcript. Five clean formats.
Every pack exports all five — no format is held back for a higher tier.
SRT captions
Timed to the speech. Every video editor reads this.
WebVTT
HTML5 player + YouTube uploads.
Plain text
De-ummed paragraphs. Ready to paste.
Show notes
Formatted with chapters and pull-quotes.
Machine-readable
Timestamped text for your own tools.
Pricing
Honest pricing, no surprises.
A pack from $4 (300 minutes) opens the full transcript. After that, no subscription and no auto-renew — every tier is a one-time minute pack, and credits never expire. Buy once, use the minutes whenever you need them.
Casual pack
$4/300 min
5 hours of audio — $0.80 an hour. One-time — credits never expire.
- 300 minutes of audio
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
- Executive summary & key quote
Best value
$18/3,000 min
50 hours of audio — $0.36 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 3,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- All export formats
- AI chat over the whole transcript
Bulk pack
$32/6,000 min
100 hours of audio — $0.32 an hour. Credits never expire.
- 6,000 minutes of audio
- Summary, chapters and key quotes
- API access for batch pipelines
- All export formats
Before you rely on it
What the SRT file is, and what it is not.
Measured on our own output, so nothing here is a surprise after you pay.
Cues sized for reading
Each cue holds at most two lines of about 42 characters and stays on screen for one to seven seconds, breaking at the end of a sentence or clause where it can. The words are exactly the transcript's; only the breaks are chosen for the screen.
Timing comes from the audio
Cue times are taken from the recording itself, so the file lines up with the video or audio you uploaded. If you trim the start of the video afterwards, shift the cues by the same amount in your editor.
Accuracy we measured
On public test recordings, about 7 words in 100 differed from the reference for clean English read speech, between 4 and 9 in 100 for Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, French and German, and about 21 in 100 for Hindi. Noisy rooms, music and crosstalk do worse. Method and every number: the benchmark.
Fix a line before you download
Open the transcript, correct a misheard name or number on its line, and the SRT and VTT you download carry the correction with the timing unchanged.
A plain file, not a styled video
You get the subtitle file. Fonts, colours, position and captions drawn into the picture are done in your video editor or player, which reads this file.
Subtitles in another language
An unlocked transcript translates into 99 languages from the language control above it, and each language downloads as SRT, VTT, TXT or DOCX. Timing is kept from the original, so the translated file fits the same video; translating an unlocked transcript adds no charge beyond the minutes the transcription used.
Packs
Pick a pack and go straight to checkout.
The preview is free. When the full transcript needs a pack, one-time packs are $4 for 300 minutes, $18 for 3,000 minutes, $32 for 6,000 minutes. Credits never expire.
A button opens secure checkout for that pack. Every export format is included.
FAQ
SRT generator questions, answered.
How do I make an SRT file?
Upload the video or audio, or paste a link, in the box at the top of this page. When the transcript is ready, open it and download .srt. The file is made from the speech in the recording, so there are no timecodes to type.
How do I make an SRT file from a Word document?
Word cannot save SRT. Copy the text into Notepad or TextEdit in plain-text mode, put each line under a number and a timing line such as 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,200, leave a blank line between cues, and save as UTF-8 with .srt at the end. If you have the video too, upload it here instead: the SRT comes back timed to the speech, and you correct the lines to match your script.
Can I make an SRT file without any software?
Yes. Any plain-text editor can write one, because an SRT is just numbered cues with start and end times. Typing the times by hand is slow for anything longer than a few minutes, which is why most people generate the file from the audio and then correct it.
How long does it take to generate an SRT file?
Usually minutes. In the 30 days to 2026-10-27, half of the one-to-two-hour recordings were transcribed within 3 minutes and half of the files under 10 minutes within 13 seconds. The SRT is ready as soon as the transcript is.
Is the SRT generator free?
The preview is free. Opening or downloading the full transcript may need a pack; the smallest is $4 for 300 minutes, and credits never expire.
What's the difference between SRT and VTT?
SRT is the older, simpler format — comma-separated timing (hh:mm:ss,ms), no styling. Almost every editor reads it. VTT is the HTML5 standard — period-separated timing (hh:mm:ss.ms), supports cue styling, positioning, and metadata. If you're targeting YouTube, Premiere, or Final Cut, use SRT. If you're targeting a custom HTML5 player or want styled captions, use VTT. We export both from the same source.
How long can a single file be?
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. Every recording starts with a free preview of its opening minutes; a pack from $4 (300 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export; packs are $4 for 300 minutes, $18 for 3,000, $32 for 6,000 minutes, and credits never expire. Files over 500 MB continue on the upload page.
Which languages work?
99+ languages are detected automatically, including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Hindi, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Russian, Polish and Turkish. The SRT is written in the language spoken.
How accurate is the timing?
Cue times are measured from the audio, phrase by phrase, so the file lines up with the recording you uploaded. Background music, overlapping speech and long passages without a pause make cues less tidy; adjust those in a subtitle editor.
Can I burn the captions into the video?
Not here. You get the SRT file, and draw it into the video with HandBrake, FFmpeg, Premiere, Resolve or CapCut. The steps are on the add subtitles to a video page.
Is the file stored anywhere?
Transcripts are kept in your private library, and you can delete a recording and its transcript at any time. Your audio is never used to train AI.
Can I make an SRT from an MP3 or other audio file?
Yes. Audio files work the same as video: MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC and OGG all produce an SRT timed to the recording, which fits any video made from that audio.
Can I get the SRT in another language?
Yes. The SRT is first made in the language spoken. With credits on the account, the download menu translates the subtitles into 35 languages and saves each as an SRT with the original timing.
Related
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Formats and rules
By language
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