Enable Import of SRT-File Over Existing Lesson

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Original Canny votes: 0 | Status: Under Review

When importing from YouTube with subtitles, sentences are often broken into screen-sized lines rather than complete sentences, causing issues with translations, sentence mode navigation, and audio timing.

Proposal: Allow an SRT-file (user-generated) to be imported over the official text of an existing lesson. This would enable:

  • Creating full sentences with custom timestamps
  • Getting per-sentence translations instead of per-fragment translations
  • Keeping all other lesson parameters (course, etc.) from the original import
  • No need to import SRT as a separate book with no control over lesson parameters

This feature would be optional, so users who don’t want to overwrite their lesson text wouldn’t be affected.

Original Canny post: Enable import of srt-file over existing lesson | Feature Requests | LingQ

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Agree this would be incredibly useful. There are many anime subtitles in Japanese that could be imported and synched to video or audio - typically youtube subtitles are in English.

Editing the timestamps is painful and the timestamp AI does a terrible job if there is BGM

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