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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

SubMagic

✓ verifiedPaid

AI video editor that auto-captions, trims and repurposes raw footage into short-form clips for social platforms.

896K visits/mo5.1K saves

Video to Prompt Generator

✓ verifiedFree

Generates detailed AI text descriptions of uploaded videos, useful for filmmakers and marketers needing quick synopses or captions.

29K 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

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

Starter: $19/member/mo (15 videos/mo, max 2 min each)

Starter + Magic Clips: $38/member/mo

Pro: $39/member/mo (40 videos/mo, max 5 min each)

Pro + Magic Clips: $58/member/mo

Free trial available

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

Core features

✦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 viral-style captions in 48 languages
✦One-click AI auto-editing (cuts, trims, silence removal)
✦Magic Clips to extract shorts from long-form videos
✦AI actor/avatar video creation without filming
✦AI video translation and eye-contact correction
✦Scheduled publishing across TikTok, YouTube and Instagram
✦Public API for automating the editing workflow

✦Uploads a video and generates a detailed text description
✦Supports follow-up questions about the video's content
✦Offers multi-language description generation
✦Processes videos quickly with encrypted uploads

✦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

→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

→Turning a podcast or long video into multiple short clips
→Adding on-brand captions to social videos at scale
→Publishing short-form content across platforms on a schedule
→Creating videos with AI avatars instead of filming

→Filmmakers creating synopses and marketing copy from footage
→Researchers describing user-testing videos for analysis
→Social media creators generating captions and hashtags from clips

→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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