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Subtitle reading speed

Measures and limits for how fast viewers must read subtitles, usually expressed in characters per second or words per minute, and the style-guide rules built on them.

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Stretching cues into speech pauses fixed 27 of 47 too-fast Whisper subtitles

Extending Whisper subtitle cues into the next pause cut the count over 17 characters per second from 47 to 20 in a dev.to test on one 168-second clip. The result argues for fixing timestamps before trimming words, wherever the speaker leaves silence to borrow.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Insufficient
Hype gap+20
Incentives50
Confidence45