SRT and VTT subtitles from your audio or video

What you get

• subtitles.srt and subtitles.vtt, named after your file
• Lines of at most 42 characters, two lines per caption
• Reading speed kept under 20 characters per second
• Timing taken from word-level times in the recording, not guessed from a block of text
• The same speech as a clean transcript in Word and text, if you want both

SRT vs VTT

Both are plain text with timecodes, so you can open them in any text editor.

How to order

1. Upload your audio or video on the home page, up to 4 GB per file.
2. Write: Give me accurate .srt and .vtt subtitle files, max 42 characters a line. Add spellings of names and brand terms.
3. Download the files from the email or your result page.

When a free generator is enough

If you want captions styled and burned into a short social video, and you want to tweak the look yourself, a self-serve tool like Kapwing, VEED or Descript has an editor for that. We do not produce burned-in captions; we produce correct text and timing as files. Use us when you have many videos, need the speakers right, and would rather receive finished files than check every line.

Accuracy and checking

Clear speech comes out very well; background noise and crosstalk lower it. Unclear passages are flagged rather than guessed, so you know where to look. Spell hard names in your brief. Each job includes two rounds of changes, so if a brand name is wrong throughout, we fix it everywhere.

Limits

Subtitles are in the language spoken. We do not translate them. Platform rules vary: if your platform needs a certain frame rate or caption format other than SRT or VTT, tell us before ordering.

Cost

A video is one file of your monthly quota: $25 for 20 files or $79 for 100. See pricing.

Subtitle rules we follow

These are the settings in our process. If your platform has stricter rules, such as shorter lines, say so in the brief.

What an SRT file looks like

An SRT file is plain text: a number, a time range, the text, then a blank line.

1
00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,900
Welcome back to the show.

2
00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:07,000
Today we talk about pricing
and why it matters.

VTT is nearly the same, but starts with a WEBVTT line and uses a dot instead of a comma in the times.

Importing the file

1. YouTube: in YouTube Studio open Subtitles, choose the video, choose the language, click Add under Subtitles and upload the .srt file (see YouTube's help page on adding subtitles).
2. Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut: import the .srt as a captions or subtitle track.
3. Vimeo and many other video hosts: add a captions track and upload the .srt or .vtt file.
4. Your own website: use the .vtt file with an HTML5 video track element.

Menus change, so use your platform's help page for the exact clicks.

Common fixes after delivery

• A brand name is spelled wrong in many captions: reply with the right spelling and we correct it throughout, within your two rounds of changes.
• Lines break in odd places: tell us your preferred maximum line length.
• Captions are slightly early or late in your editor because of a frame rate difference: tell us the frame rate of your video.

Worked example: a 12-minute tutorial

You have a 12-minute tutorial video and want captions for YouTube and a vertical version. You upload the MP4 and write: Give me accurate .srt and .vtt subtitle files, max 42 characters a line. Product name is Flowdesk. You receive the two subtitle files, named after your video, plus the clean transcript as Word and text if you want it. The YouTube upload uses the .srt; your website player uses the .vtt. The whole job is one file of your monthly quota.

Questions

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Sources (checked 2026-11-09): support.google.com/youtube/answer/2734796