Symptom: you translate your captions or subtitles into another language and a few English words are still sitting in the result. Most often it is “the”, “a” and “an”, and in a word-by-word caption style you get whole captions that read “the the the” over speech that is already translated.
Who it affected: anyone using Translation in Auto Captions or Auto Subtitles, including Dual Language subtitles. It showed up most in languages that have no articles at all - Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Turkish - where an English “the” has nothing to become, so it was being carried over as is.
Why it happened: the translation step matches the translated words to the original timing word by word. When a word has no equivalent in the target language, it was being kept in English instead of being dropped.
The fix: open Pack Manager and press Shift+D (or click the logo icon and choose “Start autodownload scripts”). That pulls the corrected scripts straight away - no reinstall needed. It will also be included in the next release.
Words with no equivalent in the target language are now removed instead of copied over, and a caption that would have contained nothing but leftovers is dropped rather than shown. Mixed languages that deliberately keep English words - Hinglish, Spanglish, Franglais, Singlish, Netspeak and the like - are left exactly as they were.
Tip: when testing captions or a translation, set the work area to 5-10 seconds first and run it. You get the result in about a minute and confirm it looks right, instead of processing the whole clip - and it does not spend AI credits on a full-length run.
If you still see leftover words after Shift+D, send us a report with Shift+W in Pack Manager and tell us the target language you picked.
More about Auto Captions: Auto Captions - AEJuice