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Captionic
✓ verifiedFree
Free AI tool that auto-generates subtitles and embeds them into short videos, with multi-language support.
4.6K visits/mo
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Subsvideo
✓ verifiedFree
Browser-based AI subtitle generator that times pasted transcripts into styled captions and exports them as SRT/VTT without uploading video.
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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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CaptionCreator
✓ verifiedPaid
AI subtitle/transcription tool (50+ languages) - but the service is shutting down, with new signups and payments disabled.
11K visits/mo
Pricing
No public 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
Credits: $10 for 100 credits (1 credit = 1 min)
Core features
- ✦Automatic AI subtitle generation
- ✦Embeds captions into the video
- ✦Multi-language support
- ✦Transcript-to-timed-caption generation
- ✦Multiple caption style presets (cinema, broadcast, coral band, etc.)
- ✦Adjustable caption position and reading speed
- ✦Translation into 13 languages
- ✦SRT and VTT export
- ✦No sign-up, runs locally in browser
- ✦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
- ✦Auto-transcription to subtitles or text
- ✦Translate audio/video to English subtitles
- ✦50+ language support
- ✦Handles noisy and multilingual audio
- ✦Non-expiring credit-based usage
- ✦SRT and plain-text output
Use cases
- →Adding captions to short-form videos
- →Making video content accessible
- →Improving video engagement and SEO
- →Adding readable subtitles to short-form social videos
- →Localizing video captions into other languages
- →Prepping caption files for YouTube, Premiere, or CapCut
- →Styling captions to match a video's visual theme
- →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
- →Subtitling videos for creators
- →Translating video into English captions
- →Transcribing recordings to text
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