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+categories: [Utilities]
+tags: [Chinese], [English], [tools], [transcribe]
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+Download: [transcribe](https://github.com/catusf/create_subtitles/releases/tag/v1.0) 
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+This post introduces a tool that creates subtitles for any media in (almost) any language.
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+Using OpenAI's Whisper library (famous for ChatGPT), this tool reads any video and automatically transcribes the content discussed in the video. Of course, machine reading cannot be 100% accurate, but it can assist you in learning a foreign language.
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+Usage
+1. Download the tool transcribe.
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+2. Copy the video files (preferably in mp4 format) and audio files that need subtitles into the `downloads` folder.
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+3. Run transcribe.exe to create and translate subtitles (default languages are Vietnamese and English).
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+4. After the software has finished running, go to the `downloads/subs` folder to find the original video files and the created subtitle files.
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+Use a video player that supports subtitle selection (such as MX Player or VLC Media Player) to watch.
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+<img src="https://catusf.github.io/img/transcribe_gui.png" alt="Subtitle creation and translation software interface" width="50%"/>
+Software interface
+<img src="https://catusf.github.io/img/Subtitle-ZH-VI-PY.png" alt="Combined Chinese-Vietnamese-Pinyin subtitles" width="50%"/>
+Combined Chinese-Vietnamese-Pinyin subtitles
+Notes
+The program running time may be quite long, depending on your computer's configuration, so please be patient :)
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+Tip
+Installing the Mengshen font (guide here) on your computer can help you remember both the characters and the Pinyin when watching Chinese subtitles.
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+<img src="https://catusf.github.io/img/Subtitle-ZH-with-Pinyin-Font.png" alt="Chinese subtitles with Pinyin font" width="50%"/>
+Chinese subtitles with Pinyin font