Upload a Cebuano video or audio file, or paste a link, and download timed subtitles in Latin script: SRT for YouTube and video editors, VTT for web players.
How it works
Drop a file, or paste a public link from YouTube, Google Drive or a podcast feed. Files over 500 MB continue on the upload page, up to 10 hours or 5 GB.
Read the first Cebuano cues against the audio. Correct a line on the transcript and the subtitle file carries the correction.
SRT for YouTube Studio and video editors, VTT for web players. TXT, DOCX and JSON come from the same transcript.
What to expect with Cebuano
For a transcript rather than subtitles, see transcribe Cebuano and Cebuano YouTube video to text. For subtitles from any YouTube link, YouTube to SRT; for any file, the SRT generator.
Captioning Cebuano
Cebuano is written in the Latin alphabet, but there is no spelling everyone follows. The same word is written with o or u and with e or i depending on the writer, the glottal stop is usually left unmarked, and words borrowed from Spanish and English keep or lose their original spelling. A subtitle file is read by people who each have their own habits, so pick one spelling for the words that repeat in your video and hold it across every cue.
Time, money and dates are often said with Spanish numbers (alas tres, singko pesos), while counting in everyday talk uses Cebuano ones. Read those cues against the audio before you publish: a number that comes back wrong is the error a viewer notices first.
Delivery
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Each cue is a phrase from the transcript with its start and end time. Most run a few seconds. A passage spoken without a pause can come out as one long cue of up to about half a minute, so split those in your editor if your platform wants two short lines at a time.
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.
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.
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.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per recording. The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; larger ones continue on the upload page. 99+ languages, detected automatically.
Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters. The cues in the subtitle file carry the words and their timing only.
Pricing
One-time packs are $6 for 500 minutes, $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, which comes to about $0.29 to $0.72 per hour of audio. In some countries the free preview is not offered and the box asks for a pack first; the smallest is $6 for 500 minutes.
| Recording | $6 or $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12-minute vlog | $0.10 | $0.07 | $0.06 |
| 50-minute Sunday sermon | $0.40 | $0.30 | $0.24 |
| 2-hour radio programme | $0.96 | $0.72 | $0.58 |
Figures are the share of a pack each recording uses. A button opens secure checkout for that pack. Every export format is included; full details on the pricing page.
FAQ
Upload the video or paste its link in the box on this page. The Cebuano speech is transcribed in Latin script; read it through, correct any line, and download SRT or VTT from the transcript.
Not reliably yet. On our Cebuano test recordings the language was labelled as Tagalog for all five files. The words still come back as text you can correct, but expect to read every cue.
In everyday speech, yes: Bisaya usually means Cebuano. Hiligaynon and Waray are different Visayan languages and are not reliably handled.
Cebuano spelling is not standardised, so o/u and e/i vary between writers. Choose one spelling for repeated words and fix it on the transcript before you download.
On public read-speech test recordings about 48 words in 100 differed from the reference, so the subtitles need a full read-through and corrections before you publish. Fix any line on the transcript and the SRT and VTT you download carry the correction.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. Files over 500 MB continue on the upload page rather than in the box on this page.
Every page in this set uses the same upload box and the same export. All subtitle pages
Cebuano SRT and VTT from one upload; packs from $6 for 500 minutes, credits never expire.