https://wordtospeech.com/blog Text to speech with subtitles that line up. Free, no account, no watermark. en https://wordtospeech.com/blog/captions-for-short-video https://wordtospeech.com/blog/captions-for-short-video Short-form captions follow almost none of the broadcast conventions. They are burned in, timed tighter, and read in silence — which changes what a good subtitle file looks like. Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://wordtospeech.com/blog/choosing-a-voice https://wordtospeech.com/blog/choosing-a-voice Voice quality is no longer the deciding factor between neural voices. Locale, and whether the voice is multilingual, change the result far more than the name does. Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://wordtospeech.com/blog/how-word-timings-work https://wordtospeech.com/blog/how-word-timings-work Most tools guess subtitle timings from character counts. Speech synthesis can report exactly when each word was spoken — here is what that data looks like and why it changes the result. Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://wordtospeech.com/blog/srt-vs-vtt https://wordtospeech.com/blog/srt-vs-vtt The two formats carry the same timings and differ in about four ways. Which one you want depends entirely on where the file is going next. Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://wordtospeech.com/blog/subtitle-timing-rules https://wordtospeech.com/blog/subtitle-timing-rules Perfectly accurate timings still produce unreadable subtitles. The conventions that separate the two are old, well established, and mostly ignored by automatic tools. Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://wordtospeech.com/blog/subtitles-for-youtube https://wordtospeech.com/blog/subtitles-for-youtube If you narrated from a written script, you already have everything YouTube needs. Here is the route that keeps the captions exact instead of letting auto-captions guess. Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://wordtospeech.com/blog/text-to-speech-with-subtitles https://wordtospeech.com/blog/text-to-speech-with-subtitles How to turn written text into spoken audio and a matching subtitle file in one step — what the formats are, how the timings are produced, where the results are usually wrong, and what to check before you ship. Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://wordtospeech.com/blog/text-to-srt https://wordtospeech.com/blog/text-to-srt You have a script and you need a .srt. Here is what an SRT file actually contains, the three ways people produce one, and why the timings are the only part that is hard. Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT