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It's so hard finding dubbed anime WITH subtitles. Like actually ridiculously hard.

My wife is deaf and I like dubbed so I can use my laptop while we chill but she literally needs subtitles so it's super annoying when a show either

1. Has no subtitles for dubbed.

2. Their subtitles are just the subbed version's subtitles which are drastically different from what the dubbed VAs are actually saying.

3. Has subtitles for some episodes but none for others seemingly randomly.

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> 2. Their subtitles are just the subbed version's subtitles which are drastically different from what the dubbed VAs are actually saying.

I get that you might not like it, but it sure beats the option you didn't list:

4. Has auto-generated subtitles for the dub that fail in dramatic and distracting ways, especially for proper nouns or any kind of show-specific invented terminology

Whilst sometimes distracting, I prefer auto-generated subtitles to none at all

Lack of closed captions and dubtitles are definitely very real issues as well, though this article is solely focused on subtitles.

at this point you're probably better off going to a torrent site and search for 'dual-audio'

This is unfortunately the answer - VLC/MPV would allow you to select the dubbed audio and also select the EN-US subtitles that are based on the original audio.

GabeN saying that piracy is first and foremost a service problem is still right on the money.

If you ever need to hack some subs by yourself, whisper.cpp can output .srt files and you can run the small or medium models even on modest hardware.

CrunchyRoll did something like that to the Re:Zero dub's captions, and it's a disgrace. Every single proper noun is wrong. It messes up every fantasy item/place/monster/etc name, and can't distinguish between the Rem/Ram/Rom characters. It also has no concept of of which character is talking, and interprets dialogues as singular sentences.

None of the models I've seen can actually do proper timing. It's all idiotic.

I was pretty happy with all the animes produced by Netflix I watched ; they had a good choice of both audio and subs

Netflix is fine so long as you don't live in Japan (I wonder how other countries are). They only give Japanese subtitles for most anime here. Netflix produced anime do have a great breadth of options for subtitles and audio though.

Hianime? They have both dubs and subs at the same time. For non-english subs/dubs there're probably pirate versions too. And yes, subs and dub will be slightly different anyway because dubbers change it sligthly for better flow or lip sync if needed.

Pretty much anything labeled [Dual Audio] will have this when sailing the high seas

I've seen it with a few pirate releases that have two subtitle tracks for the same language, one being the dub.

Gaben proven right yet again.

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