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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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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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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
Pricing
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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
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
- ✦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
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
- →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
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