Takarir is a lightweight and user-friendly macOS application that allows you to easily generate subtitles from video files using advanced speech recognition technology.
🎬 Simply drag and drop your video, select your preferred language, and Takarir will automatically create accurate subtitles for you — all running fully offline on your Mac.
- 🎤 Offline speech-to-text using OpenAI Whisper
- 📼 Drag and drop video files
- 📜 Auto-generate
.srtsubtitle files - 🌐 Multi-language transcription
- 💻 Works 100% locally, no internet upload required
- 🔧 Customizable Python and script path in settings
This app is a native macOS frontend for the open-source terminal tool
create_subtitles by Eren Emre K,
which handles the actual subtitle generation using FFmpeg and Whisper.
All subtitle generation logic is based on that tool, adapted to work through a GUI.
- macOS 12.0 or newer
- FFmpeg installed (
brew install ffmpeg) - Python 3.10+ with Whisper installed
- Download the latest
.dmgfrom the Releases page. - Drag and drop your video file.
- Click "Create Subtitles".
- Get your
.srtfile in the same directory as your video.
In the Settings tab, you can configure:
- Python executable path (e.g.
/Users/you/.pyenv/versions/3.10.13/bin/python) - Path to
create_subtitles.pyscript
git clone https://github.com/orchivillando/takarir.git
cd takarir
open Takarir.xcodeproj