SubMiner/changes/japanese-subtitle-generation.md

type: added area: subtitles

• Generate local Japanese SRT subtitles with whisper.cpp from a standalone modal opened with Ctrl+Shift+G, the empty subtitle sidebar's generation button, or subminer generate-subs, with shared progress reporting, cancellation, safe output files, and automatic loading into the matching mpv video. The sidebar button hides while subtitle lines are loaded.
• Configure an existing multilingual model in Settings or choose an official multilingual model, including quantized variants, in the modal or launcher. The modal shows download sizes, speed and accuracy guidance, and a recommended starting model before explicitly downloading a verified SubMiner-managed model. Executable paths are optional overrides; empty fields find whisper-cli, ffmpeg, and ffprobe on PATH.
• Optionally select Focus on spoken dialogue in the modal and use Download speech detection model to install the separate Silero model with progress and cancellation. The choice lasts for the session; a configured VAD model path sets the default. With the detector executable installed, retain brief utterances and extra audio around speech, split long passages near quiet pauses with overlapping context, and combine duplicate cues by greatest timing overlap. Keep original media timing and separate repeated dialogue without spanning omitted music breaks.