A little help with your subtitles.

How do I start, and how do I get my subtitles?

Choose your files; the price and an itemized quote appear before you pay. To pay, enter an email: after payment we send a secure link to your minute bank, and the finished SRT arrives by email as an attachment. If today’s free minutes cover the files, you can choose them instead; free files wait in a slower queue, and the email is optional. Either way, this browser remembers your files: reopen this page in the same browser to download or edit your subtitles within seven days of completion. Keep the tab open while files are preparing and uploading.

How much does it cost?

A US$5 refill (CA$6.95 in Canada) adds 600 minutes to your minute bank. A file not covered by that balance triggers another refill at checkout; the exact total appears before payment. Verify your email with the one-time link to use the bank on another device. There is no subscription or recurring charge.

What happens to the minutes I don’t use?

A US$5 refill adds 600 minutes. A five-minute file uses five minutes and leaves 595 in the balance for later. Use the secure link sent to your checkout email to verify ownership and access the same balance on another device. It lapses a year after you last use it.

Will the subtitles use the spoken dialect?

The service transcribes Arabic speech without an automatic rewrite into formal Arabic. Egyptian, Levantine, Gulf and other regional speech can vary in recognition quality. Names, music, overlapping voices and dialect spelling need review.

Can I subtitle a movie or a TV episode?

You can select a local file up to 6 hours and 8 GB that your browser can read. Choose the original Arabic audio track, including in files with several tracks. Use recordings you own or have permission to process. URL imports and DRM-protected streams are not supported.

Can I do several files at once?

Yes. Drop a whole folder of episodes and pay for them in one payment. The batch uses your existing balance first and shares the refills it needs. Two 30-minute recordings from an empty bank cost US$5 in one payment and leave 540 minutes for later. You can add more files while the first ones are still transcribing.

Does my video get uploaded?

No. This version reads the chosen audio track on your device and uploads only normalized audio, once you have chosen the file. If your browser cannot decode the audio, the site stops and asks you to provide a supported audio file. It does not silently upload the original video.

Which browsers and formats work?

Format support depends on your browser’s audio decoder. Modern browsers with WebCodecs audio support can prepare many AAC, MP3 and Opus tracks. On Safari, Matroska files use a local fallback decoder when needed; the original file stays on your device and only normalized audio is uploaded. PCM WAV also works. If local conversion cannot finish, export the audio as WAV or AAC. Keep the tab open during preparation.

How do I use the SRT?

Download the file and load it as a subtitle track in a player such as VLC, or import it in your video editor. It contains Arabic text and cue times, not a subtitled video. Select UTF-8 if a player asks for an encoding.

What if the timing is off?

Select a cue to seek the local video, then adjust its start and end times. The editor uses seconds. You can split or merge cues and undo changes. Review the beginning, middle and end before sharing.

How long are files kept?

Unsubmitted audio expires after one hour. Working audio is removed after the job finishes, with cleanup retried on errors. Results and saved corrections expire seven days after completion. Download your SRT before then. Deleting a project removes its content and cancels unfinished work where possible.

Is this translation or burned-in captioning?

This page's Arabic subtitle generator creates Arabic SRT files from speech already in Arabic. It does not translate into another language, replace the dialect with formal Arabic, or burn text into a video. For translation, use the separate video subtitle translation page.

Translate video subtitles

Translation is available in a separate workflow: translate supported non-Arabic speech into Modern Standard Arabic, or translate Arabic speech into English, French, or Spanish. You receive a timed SRT; the original audio is unchanged.

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