Welcome to Subaligner’s documentation!

Subaligner

Given an out-of-sync subtitle file along with a piece of audiovisual content carrying speeches described by it, Subaligner provides a one-stop solution on automatic subtitle synchronisation and translation with pretrained deep neural networks , forced alignments and transformers. In essence, aligning subtitles is a dual-stage process with a Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory network trained upfront. Subaligner helps subtitlers not only in preprocessing raw subtitle materials (outcome from stenographers or STT workflow, etc.) but also in gaining quality control over their work within subtitle post-production. This tool also tolerates errors that occurred in live subtitles which sometimes do not completely or correctly represent what people actually spoke in the companion audiovisual content.

Subligner has been shipped with a command-line interface which helps users to conduct various tasks around subtitle synchronisation and multilingual translation without writing any code. Application programming interfaces are also provided to developers wanting to perform those tasks programmatically. Moreover, with existing audiovisual and in-sync subtitle files at hand, advanced users can train their own synchronisers with a single command and zero setup. A handful of subtitle formats are supported and can be converted from one to another either during synchronisation and translation or on on-demand.

Even without any subtitles available beforehand, Subaligner provides transcription by utilising SOTA Large Language Models (LLMs). This pipeline, combined with translation, can generate near ready-to-use subtitles of increasingly higher quality in various languages and formats which cater to your preferences, thanks to those models continually advancing over time.

Subligner supports the following subtitle formats: SubRip, TTML, WebVTT, (Advanced) SubStation Alpha, MicroDVD, MPL2, TMP, EBU STL, SAMI, SCC and SBV. The source code can be found on GitHub: subaligner.

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