Video Subtitles Dependency

Comments discuss a tool's reliance on existing video subtitles or captions, especially YouTube's auto-generated ones, their quality, availability, and limitations for functionality.

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Sample Comments

jokoon Dec 29, 2018 View on HN

Would be nice to have subtitles!

poopsmithe May 1, 2021 View on HN

Doesn't work on videos without subtitles. Bummer.

pmorici Oct 13, 2015 View on HN

Will this work with videos that aren't already subtitled? I haven't gotten one without subtitles to work yet maybe I'm just not waiting long enough though.

redgrange Oct 20, 2015 View on HN

Cool. Are you looking at the captions/subtitles and in many cases the automatically generated ones from youtube's speech recognition?

Thaxll Nov 16, 2023 View on HN

Didn't they provide subtitles made by users?

David_Beaver Aug 4, 2025 View on HN

SubtitleBee is a better option as it offer subtilting options as well as translation, transcription, and video cropping.

valvar Jan 13, 2020 View on HN

Subtitles for videos is my guess.

stef25 Dec 4, 2020 View on HN

Doesn't work unless there are subtitles (WARNING: video doesn't have subtitles), which seems to be different from captions.

kalev Sep 22, 2025 View on HN

Would this be of help with YouTubes auto-generated subtitles? I hate the fact the words appear just in time one by one, unlike traditional complete sentences that appear fully one at a time.

deepbuilder May 1, 2021 View on HN

It doesn't. Because it relies on video's subtitles as input at the moment.