Twinsubs
Twinsubs guides
Watching videos and streams, meetings, making subtitles, turning recordings into subtitles: one page for each, covering how to do it, what it cannot do, and how Twinsubs compares with other tools.
Who it is for
- Bilingual subtitles for meetings: any meeting appCannot follow a foreign-language meeting? Read the translation and the original side by side. No host setting or meeting-app plan needed, and it runs on your Mac.
- Subtitles for online courses and lecturesTurn foreign-language courses and lectures into a bilingual SRT, or lectures in your own language into punctuated subtitles. Processed on your Mac, ideal for study.
- Watch foreign-language videos and streams with live subtitles in your languageForeign-language video or live stream with no subtitles? Your Mac translates the sound as it plays and floats the translation over the picture. On-device, no account.
- Live translation on Mac: translate audio as it playsTranslate the sound playing on your Mac live, in a browser, player or meeting app, as a two-line caption. On-device, works offline, nothing uploaded or recorded.
Guides
- How to add bilingual subtitles to a video on MacRecognition, line breaks, translation and one bilingual SRT, then import it into CapCut or Final Cut Pro to style it. Local on your Mac, with troubleshooting tips.
- Turn audio, podcasts and recordings into subtitles on your MacDrop a podcast, interview or voice memo into Twinsubs and get a timed SRT file; foreign-language audio can come with a translation. On your Mac, nothing uploaded.
- How to check and edit SRT subtitlesSRT is plain text, so any editor works. The format, common errors in machine-made subtitles, a proofreading order that saves time, and turning an SRT into a transcript.
- Generate subtitles from a video on your Mac and get an SRT fileDrop a video into Twinsubs and get an SRT file beside it. Subtitles in the video's own language, or with a translation. On your Mac: no upload, no account.
- How to import an SRT into CapCut, Final Cut Pro and IINALoading an .srt into CapCut, Final Cut Pro and IINA: Apple's official Final Cut steps, Insertion Time options, player auto-loading, and what to check when it fails.
- Local vs cloud transcriptionRun the speech model on your own computer, or upload the file to a server? Compared on privacy, cost, speed and connectivity, with the price you pay for going local.