asub
The facts below are what the maker publishes about asub, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
The facts
Each one read from asub's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Batch processing
- It can process supported media files in a folder, loading the Whisper model once for the batch.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Hardware
- It runs on CPU or GPU and supports int8 quantisation for low-memory setups.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Hardware and models
- It supports CPU and GPU processing, offers Whisper model choices from tiny to large-v3, and auto-detects device and compute type when omitted.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Installation status
- The README labels PyPI installation as “once published.”checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The project uses faster-whisper, deep-translator with Google Translate, Silero VAD, and optional WhisperX and pyannote diarization models.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Language requirements
- The package metadata requires Python 3.10 or later.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Languages
- It automatically detects the source language or lets users specify it, and translates subtitles into 100+ languages via Google Translate without an API key.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- The software is distributed under the MIT License, which permits use, copying, modification, distribution, sublicensing, and sale subject to its stated conditions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Limits
- Folder processing scans only the top level, and translation batches can encounter network or rate-limit issues.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Other operating systems
- The README gives Linux and macOS shell instructions for setting the Hugging Face token, and the package metadata classifies the software as OS independent.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Output formats
- It can write subtitles in SRT and WebVTT formats.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- asub generates and translates subtitles from audio or video files using Whisper.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Python API
- The README provides a Python API for loading a model, transcribing media, translating segments, and writing subtitle files.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Speaker identification
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Speaker labels
- Optional WhisperX-powered diarization adds anonymous speaker labels, and the README notes that overlapping speech can be difficult to handle.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Subtitle export
- srt and vttchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Subtitle formats
- It outputs SRT and WebVTT subtitle files.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Transcription
- It uses faster-whisper and offers automatic language detection or manual source-language selection.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Translation
- It translates subtitles into 100+ languages through Google Translate without an API key.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
The company
- Headquarters
- Italychecked 19 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Windows download
- The README documents building a single-file Windows executable with PyInstaller; it downloads Whisper model weights on first run rather than bundling them.checked 12 Oct 2026
Alternatives to asub
- 1
Captions
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI9.1From $4.99 a month - 2
Whisper
Free planOpen sourceAPILinuxmacOSSelf-hosted8.9$0.01 usage-based - 3
SRTGen
Free planWebAPI8.3From $4 a month - 4
Fluen AI Subtitle Generator
Free planWebAPIExtensionmacOS8.2Free plan - 5
ZapCap
Free planAndroidiOSWebAPI8.1From $8 a month - 6
ngram
Free planWebAPIExtension8.1From $29 a month