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Auto Captioning Subtitles Captions Video Editing Video

SubtitleBee

✓ verifiedFreemium

Web app that auto-transcribes, styles, and translates video subtitles into 120+ languages, with watermark-free exports on paid plans.

44K visits/mo1.8K saves

Captionic

✓ verifiedFree

Free AI tool that auto-generates subtitles and embeds them into short videos, with multi-language support.

4.6K visits/mo

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

CaptionCue

Maestra

✓ verifiedFreemium

Web platform for AI transcription, subtitling, translation and dubbing across 125+ languages, aimed at video creators and teams.

1.5M visits/mo

Pricing

Free: $0/mo (10 min auto subtitle video)

Starter: $19/mo (240 min/month, 3 translations per video)

Premium: $49/mo (1050 min/month, 10 translations per video)

Business: $129/mo (3600 min/month, 15 translations per video)

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

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

Core features

✦Automatic subtitle generation from video/audio
✦Subtitle translation into 120+ languages
✦Font, color, and style customization
✦Text overlays and custom logo branding
✦Video cropping and resizing for social platforms
✦Export in SRT, ASS, VTT, TXT formats

✦Automatic AI subtitle generation
✦Embeds captions into the video
✦Multi-language support

✦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

✦Intelligent Caption Generation
✦Drag-and-Drop Image Upload
✦Customizable Caption Styles
✦Rapid Image-to-Text Search
✦Instant Caption Creation
✦Effortless Caption Sharing

✦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

Use cases

→Captioning social media clips for accessibility
→Translating video content for international audiences
→Branding videos with custom logos and overlay text
→Repurposing long videos for different platform aspect ratios

→Adding captions to short-form videos
→Making video content accessible
→Improving video engagement and SEO

→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

→Generating captions for Instagram posts
→Creating engaging tweets for Twitter
→Crafting relevant captions for Facebook updates

→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

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