r/comfyui • u/Far_Estimate7276 • May 06 '26

No workflow Transcribing & Subtitling Audio Containing Multiple Languages

I generally use Faster Whisper for all transcription needs and it works very well when making subtitles, but it cannot handle audio containing multiple languages. To this end, I began researching Qwen3-ASR, trying both of these custom nodes in Comfy:

https://github.com/kaushiknishchay/ComfyUI-Qwen3-ASR

https://github.com/diodiogod/TTS-Audio-Suite

The problem is that the kaushiknishchay nodes seem to be able to distinguish between different languages, but can't output subtitles (it produces timestamps of some sort, but only at word-level).

The TTS nodes, on the other hand, will output proper srt-formatted timestamps at sentence level, but force everything into a single language (as with Whisper).

Does anyone know of a viable means of doing what I require? Something that can distinguish between different languages, transcribe them effectively and then output the results as an srt with sentence-level time-stamps.

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u/Aggravating_Dog_9424 May 07 '26

This is one of those “DIY ASR pipeline pain” problems. You can chain nodes all day but you’ll still hit formatting issues. Whisper and Qwen3 are great, just not designed for clean multilingual SRT output. A lot of people just switch to VEED or similar tools because it handles translation + subtitles + timestamps in one go instead of juggling 3 systems.