Dubash: Auto Captions Live

Dubash writes English captions for videos spoken in any of 99 languages. Pick a video, choose the language, and a few minutes later you have timestamped English captions that you can edit, burn into the video or save as an SRT file. Everything happens on your phone. After a one-time download of the speech model, your video and your captions never leave the device. There are no accounts, no ads and no tracking. Dubash understands 99 languages, including Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese. It can usually work out which language is being spoken, or you can tell it. How it works 1. Choose a video from your phone, or share one to Dubash from another app. 2. Choose Best or Fast. Best gets more words right. Fast is quicker and a smaller download. 3. Wait while Dubash listens. The screen shows how far along it is and roughly how long is left, and you can cancel at any time. 4. Read through the captions and fix any the model misheard. Change their size, position and colours if you like. Then export an MP4 with the captions drawn on, or an SRT file for YouTube or a video editor. Unless you move them, captions sit above the area that Instagram's Reels interface covers, so they stay readable once posted. The speech model is a one-time download of 190 MB (Fast) or 539 MB (Best). Your phone keeps it, so you only wait once, and after that Dubash works without internet. The only other thing the app ever sends is a feedback message or a star rating, and only when you choose to send one. Dubash is the old Indian word for an interpreter.