Guides from our tests: how to set up and use AI tools in your language.
Download the caption file of your own videos in YouTube Studio, copy the transcript of any video, and turn a transcript into a valid SRT file, plus what YouTube's terms say about subtitle downloader sites.
Subtitles carry the dialogue for viewers who don't understand the language; closed captions add the sounds for viewers who can't hear them. Shown with our own sample files in four languages, plus SDH, open captions, labels and the rules.
Get the original audio back on one video in three clicks, stop most dubs and translated titles with Preferred languages, and switch automatic dubbing off as a creator. Steps checked in October 2026, with what we saw on a dubbed video.
An SRT file is a plain-text subtitle file: numbered blocks with a start time, an end time and a line of text. We built one in English, German, French and Spanish to show what a wrong encoding does, and how to create, translate and upload one that works.