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My experience with generated subtitles is that they're awful. Hopefully these are better, but I wish human beings with brains would make them.
subtitling by hand takes sooooo fucking long :( people who do it really are heroes. i did community subs on youtube when that was a thing and subtitling + timing a 20 minute video took me six or seven hours, even with tools that suggested text and helped align it to sound. your brain instantly notices something is off if the subs are unaligned.
You can use tools like whishper to pre generate the subtitles. You will have pretty accurate su titles at the right times. Then you can edit the errors and maybe adjust the timings.
But I guess this workflow will work with VLC in the future as well