In the age of OTT platforms, there are still some who prefer to download movies/videos from YouTube/Facebook/Torrents (shush 🤫) over streaming. I am one of them and on one such occasion, I couldn’t find the subtitle file for a particular movie I had downloaded. Then, the idea for AutoSub struck me and since I had worked with DeepSpeech previously, I decided to use it to generate subtitles for my movie.

Given a video file as input, my goal was to generate an .srt file. The subtitles could then be imported into any modern video player. In this article, I’m going to walk you through some of the code. You can find the project on my GitHub here with instructions on how to install locally.

Prerequisites: Intermediate understanding of Python, some familiarity with Automatic Speech Recognition Engines, and a basic understanding of signal processing will be great.

Note: This is my first article on Medium. If you have any suggestions/doubts please comment them down. Happy reading :)

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