Subtitles for recorded interviews. Keep the meaning intact.

Work from a recording, not a live interview

This workflow is for interviews you have recorded and are authorized to process. Polyglot does not listen to a live job interview or supply answers during a call. It creates subtitles from imported media on your Mac, with transcription and translation performed locally after the required models have been downloaded.

Choose the final interview edit before starting. A reordered question, removed pause or shortened answer changes the relationship between text and video. Keep a copy of the source recording and record which edit you are subtitling. For confidential material, follow the agreed storage and review process for both the project and exported files.

Resolve uncertainty by listening again

Generate the original-language draft and review it against playback. Names, places and technical terms deserve a deliberate pass. A model may produce a believable word where the speaker hesitated or the microphone dropped out. If you cannot hear a phrase clearly, mark it in your review notes and seek clarification rather than converting a guess into a quote.

Consider a speaker saying, “I thought we could, but we couldn’t.” Missing the last contraction reverses the answer. Read the question and response together, including interruptions and corrections. Decide with the producer how the finished captions should represent those moments. Editing for readability should not turn an uncertain answer into a confident statement.

Make speaker changes understandable

Polyglot does not automatically assign names to speakers. A camera cut is not reliable evidence that the visible person is speaking, especially with reaction shots or voiceover. Review transitions by listening, and add needed speaker context through your finishing workflow. Do not describe the generated transcript as a diarized interview record.

Check whether the audience can follow an off-camera question or overlapping response. Relevant sound information may also be needed for complete captions. If timing or cue boundaries need to change, use a compatible subtitle editor; Polyglot preserves source cue timing while you edit text. Review the result in the intended player, where placement and wrapping can differ.

Translate quotations with context

Correct the source subtitles before approving translations. A fluent reviewer should hear the recording or have enough context to understand irony, idioms and an unfinished thought. Preserve the level of certainty in the answer. Do not silently turn a conversational phrase into an assertion that would be stronger than the original quotation.

Export UTF-8 SRT files with the interview identifier, edit version and language in their names. Keep a record of unresolved passages outside the published subtitles and hold any track that still needs approval. After attaching the files to a compatible player, inspect the opening, a speaker transition and the end. Save the Polyglot project so a later correction remains tied to the right recording.

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