# Auto Generated Subtitles

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/auto-generated-subtitles/696067>\
**Category:** Feature Suggestions\
**Created:** [March 1, 2021, 9:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/auto-generated-subtitles/696067 "2021-03-01T21:09:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 12:20am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/auto-generated-subtitles/696067/4 "2022-10-27T00:20:59Z")

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2022 clean-up: duplicate  
There’s another suggestion thread discussing the same topic. While it was created slightly after this one, it gained more votes. Please feel free to re-cast your vote in that thread – my apologies for the inconvenience due to closing this one as a duplicate.

> [@Auto-Generated Captions (like on YouTube)](https://forums.plex.tv/t/auto-generated-captions-like-on-youtube/737572):
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> I spend a good amount of time trying to find subtitles for my TV and movie libraries. Sometimes I am able to find them on the major subtitles websites, or using the subtitle search feature of Plex. However, for the (majority of) times where I am unsuccessful, it would be great if Plex could take a stab at using speech-recognition software, to auto-generate captions. This feature exists on YouTube, and I find it extremely helpful, even with the inevitable mistakes. Is there any way this could …

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