subtitleedit VS novelWriter

A free program SubtitleEdit allows you to change the timing of a subtitle in a number of ways. It also allows you to view the video and an audio waveform so you can see precisely any offset. https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/releases

Or you can edit your SRT file using an app similar to this https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/releases

Subtitle Edit if you use windows: https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit

I recently found a freeware program called Subtitle Edit that uses optical character recognition to convert subtitles to SRT format (and it can even run on Linux with the Mono runtime). However, I've found that it sometimes adds spaces within words (and with some subtitles that happens fairly often). So I'm wondering if there may be anything better that can accurately convert subtitles to SRT format?

Hey, sorry for no answering sooner. I feel I should create a proper guide for this, but in short I use Whisper (from the creators of ChatGPT https://github.com/openai/whisper). Recently, SubtitleEdit (similar to Aegisubs, better in my opinion) added this function to the program (https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit/releases); you just add a video or audio, go to Video>Audio to Text (Whisper) and it does the job. It can do straight to Korean or do some AI translation too.

You can also use SE for making new subtitles from scratch (do use the time-line/waveform/spectrogram) or translating subtitles. Subtitle Edit

You can do this in Subtitle Edit. Add the subtitle then go to Synchronization > Adjust all times > enter the time of the previous part(s) and click show later. After you have done this for files 2 through 4 you go to Tools > Join subtitles. The resulting file should have the correct time codes and, depending on the file type, numbering.

Never buy the book, start writing the book, https://novelwriter.io/ ;)

novelwriter.io

https://novelwriter.io/ is free and open source (I haven't used it, only know about it).

novelWriter for books is like building a dungeon in D&D I might add. All it needs is a map editor ;)

Novelwriter almost hits the sweet spot, but misses some features and is written in python, which makes some features hard to implement due to the nature of the programming language.

Try this software. It may well help you to write better -> novelWriter.

Alternatively, if you want Scrivener-like and are happy with open source projects, novelWriter scratches some of the same itch and is (a) free and (b) available on Linux, Windows, and macOS: it has a similar project-oriented interface to Scrivener, can export projects in HTML, Open Document, Markdown, Plain Text, or PDF, supports tagging and metadata, and uses Markdown for authoring. It's much less hot on importing foreign files (it's really an authoring tool) but is implemented in Python, uses XML/Json for internal files/metadata/configuration, and in use feels like an early version of Scrivener 1.x (which is really what your students want, but Lit'n'Latte discontinued it about a decade ago and you can no longer buy it).

MSWord is surprising to hear. I would've thought some specific tools like Vellum. There are free and open source tools as well, like https://novelwriter.io/