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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

HeyGen

✓ verifiedFreemium

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

11M visits/mo3.7K saves

Kling AI

✓ verifiedFreemium

Kling AI turns text or images into cinematic AI video, plus image and sound generation, for creators and studios.

3.0M visits/mo91K saves

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

Banva

✓ verifiedFreemium

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

15K visits/mo

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

Core features

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

✦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

✦AI video generation from text and images
✦AI image generation
✦Reference-based multimodal creation
✦Single creative studio

✦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 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

Use cases

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

→Create spokesperson marketing videos
→Localize videos into many languages
→Produce training and explainer videos
→Scale social video content

→Short-form and social video creation
→Storyboarding and previz
→Advertising and brand clips
→Animating still images

→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

→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

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