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Guides on subtitling, transcription and live captions, written by the people building them.
Guides on subtitling, transcription and live captions, written by the people building them.
Stop retyping what was said.

Microsoft Word can transcribe audio directly inside a document, but only under specific conditions. This guide covers what Word's Transcribe feature can and can't do, how to use it for live and pre-recorded audio, and what to reach for when you hit its limits.

Different LLMs handle meeting summaries differently — long-context, multilingual handling, prose quality, instruction-following, cost. Most meeting tools lock you to one model, so when its trade-offs don't fit your meeting, your summary suffers. Here's how to think about the choice, with honest disclosure that I run Subanana — one of the few tools that lets users pick.

Descript is an all-in-one creator studio with transcription, video editing, voice cloning, and AI generation under one roof. Subanana is a transcription and live-caption tool with strong multilingual support. They're different categories — here's how the two products line up on what each publishes about itself.

Grain is a sales-call recording platform with deep CRM integrations and revenue-intelligence features. This compares Grain and Subanana on pricing, language support, sales-team workflows, and AI summary — based on each tool's published documentation.

An SRT file is one of the most widely supported plain-text subtitle formats: numbered cues, timecodes, and subtitle text — nothing else. This guide explains the SRT format with a real example, the three ways to open one (text editor, subtitle editor, media player), and how to create SRT files yourself.