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syncwords.com
✓ verifiedPaid
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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viralbot
✓ verifiedPaid
Low-cost online editor that pairs a main video with auto-generated subtitles and a secondary clip to produce quick vertical social videos.
74 visits/mo3.3K saves
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Maestra
✓ verifiedFreemium
Web platform for AI transcription, subtitling, translation and dubbing across 125+ languages, aimed at video creators and teams.
1.5M visits/mo
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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
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
First video: free
Single video: $0.18
10-video pack: $1.50 ($0.15/video)
Pay As You Go: $12 (60 credits)
Lite: $23/mo (180 min)
Basic: $39/mo (360 min)
Premium: $79/mo (900 min)
Free trial available
Free: $0/month
Light: $5/month
Medium: $13/month
Premium: $49/month
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦Automatic multi-language subtitle generation
- ✦Automated pairing with a secondary background video clip
- ✦Regenerate option to swap secondary content
- ✦200+ stock footage clips library
- ✦Simple upload-generate-download workflow
- ✦No-signup free first video
- ✦Automatic transcription with speakers and timestamps
- ✦Subtitle generation, translation and editing
- ✦AI dubbing with voice cloning and lip sync
- ✦Real-time transcription, translation and captioning
- ✦Text-to-speech voiceovers in 125+ languages
- ✦Automatic subtitles generation with AI
- ✦Video resizing for different social media platforms
- ✦Subtitle style customization
- ✦Support for multiple languages
- ✦Video format conversion
- ✦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
- →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
- →Social media marketers creating quick split-screen viral videos
- →Creators wanting subtitles without manual editing
- →Users repurposing YouTube links into short vertical clips
- →Subtitle and translate videos for global audiences
- →Transcribe meetings, interviews and media files
- →Dub audio and video into other languages
- →Caption live events and streams
- →Adding subtitles to social media videos to increase engagement
- →Creating accessible video content for viewers who watch without sound
- →Translating video subtitles into different languages
- →Quickly generating subtitles for video content without manual transcription
- →Create spokesperson marketing videos
- →Localize videos into many languages
- →Produce training and explainer videos
- →Scale social video content
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