WJS Translating Subtitles — guide skill for captions & subtitles

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Translate an SRT to Chinese, English or another language and re-cut cues at real punctuation; bilingual SRTs too.

• Type: Guide · Captions & subtitles
• Slug: wjs-translating-subtitles
• Status: live
• Publisher: Jian Shuo Wang (community)
• License: MIT
• Source: https://github.com/jianshuo/claude-skills/tree/main/wjs-translating-subtitles
• Works in: Claude Code, Codex
• Cost: Free — instructions only; the agent translates
• Adoption: 217 installs, 137 GitHub stars (GitHub + skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

What it does

Text-only subtitle translation from Wang Jianshuo's video-localization pipeline. It translates a source SRT or pasted transcript with subtitle-length rules (about 15 Chinese or 42 Latin characters a line, two lines max), then re-segments so every cue ends at a real punctuation mark, splitting or merging cues with timestamps interpolated by character position. Output is target-only, bilingual (source line over target line) or three-language SRT, with file-naming conventions and a quality gate; Simplified Chinese and English are the tested targets. Instructions only; burn-in and dubbing live in sibling skills of the same repo.

Use when

• Translate an SRT into Chinese or English
• Bilingual (中英双语) subtitles
• Fix cues that end mid-sentence before dubbing or burn-in

Not for

• Making the source SRT (transcribe first)
• Burn-in or voice dubbing (sibling skills; for burn-in see ffmpeg-captions-subtitles)

Install

• Claude Code: npx skills add https://github.com/jianshuo/claude-skills --skill wjs-translating-subtitles
• Codex: npx skills add https://github.com/jianshuo/claude-skills --skill wjs-translating-subtitles

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