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Banva
✓ verifiedFreemium

Browser-based AI tool that generates, styles and burns subtitles and transcribes audio across 90+ languages.

15K visits/mo
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syncwords.com
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Pay-per-minute platform for live and recorded AI captioning, foreign subtitling, and real-time voice dubbing for broadcasters.

19K visits/mo
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AI Video by Media.io
✓ verifiedFreemium

Media.io offers free online AI tools for generating and editing video, images, and audio, plus viral content workflows.

5.4M visits/mo6.5K saves
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Video AI by Topaz Labs
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Desktop and cloud AI software for upscaling, sharpening, denoising, and restoring photos and video at professional quality.

3.0M visits/mo7.0K saves
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HeyGen
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI video platform for making avatar and spokesperson videos from text, with translation and voice cloning.

11M visits/mo3.7K saves
Pricing

No public pricing

Human transcription (standard, 3-5 days): $1.95/minute of media
Human transcription (fast, same day): $3.45/minute of media
Automated captions (ASR + sync): $0.50/minute of media
Machine translation, first language: $1.00/minute of media
Machine translation, second language: $0.50/minute of media
Burned-in caption files: $3.00 minimum, $0.50/minute above minimum
Professional human translation: from $6.00/minute of media

Free trial available

No public pricing

Topaz Image Web: $12/mo (introductory, up to 32MP, unlimited cloud rendering)
Astra Standard: $19/mo (introductory, 400 credits/month, 4K video output)
Topaz Studio: $34/mo billed annually (all apps, 300 monthly video cloud credits)
Topaz Studio: $69/mo (all apps, 300 monthly video cloud credits)
Topaz Photo: $39/mo (photo restoration and enhancement models)
Topaz Gigapixel: $29/mo (image upscaling models)

No public pricing

Core features
  • AI subtitle generation from video or audio
  • Translation across 90+ languages
  • Caption styling with fonts, animations and presets
  • Export as SRT, VTT, TXT or JSON
  • Burn subtitles directly into video
  • Fast parallel processing of long files
  • Frame-accurate live AI captioning with broadcast-grade latency
  • Real-time subtitle translation into 40+ languages including non-Latin scripts
  • AI voice dubbing that preserves speaker emotion and tone
  • Delivery via SDI, HLS, SRT and widget-based embeds
  • Caption and subtitle editor with smart segmentation and error detection
  • Human transcription and translation options alongside automated ones
  • AI video generation (text and image to video)
  • AI image creation and enhancement
  • AI audio tools
  • AI ad and story video generators
  • Viral content studio
  • Video enhancer and effects
  • AI image and video upscaling up to 4K/32MP
  • Denoising and sharpening models
  • Photo restoration and dust/scratch removal
  • Face enhancement and recovery
  • Background removal and colorization
  • Cloud rendering with concurrency limits
  • Bundled multi-app Studio subscription
  • Text-to-video with AI avatars
  • Custom and personal avatar creation
  • AI voice cloning
  • Multi-language video translation
  • Template library for common video types
  • Team and API options
Use cases
  • Adding captions to marketing and social videos
  • Transcribing recordings and podcasts to text
  • Translating subtitles to reach global audiences
  • Styling on-brand captions for short-form content
  • Sports and news broadcasters localizing live feeds for global audiences
  • OTT platforms offering translated content tiers
  • Event organizers adding live multilingual captions to conferences and webinars
  • Creating social and marketing videos
  • Generating AI images
  • Editing and enhancing media
  • Photographers restoring or upscaling old photos
  • Video editors upscaling footage to 4K
  • Studios batch-enhancing large image libraries
  • Creators removing backgrounds or colorizing images
  • Create spokesperson marketing videos
  • Localize videos into many languages
  • Produce training and explainer videos
  • Scale social video content
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