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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

AI-driven digital accessibility suite adding sign language, audio description, and alt text across web, mobile, and print.

1.6K visits/mo
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viralbot
✓ verifiedPaid

Low-cost online editor that pairs a main video with auto-generated subtitles and a secondary clip to produce quick vertical social videos.

74 visits/mo3.3K saves
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CaptionCreator
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AI subtitle/transcription tool (50+ languages) - but the service is shutting down, with new signups and payments disabled.

11K visits/mo
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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
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

No public pricing

First video: free
Single video: $0.18
10-video pack: $1.50 ($0.15/video)
Credits: $10 for 100 credits (1 credit = 1 min)
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
  • Web accessibility widget with one-click fixes
  • AI sign language translation for video and mobile content
  • AI-generated image/video descriptions for screen readers
  • PDF and document accessibility with voice narration
  • QR-code linked sign language/audio description for printed materials
  • Accessibility insight/reporting for websites and mobile apps
  • Automatic multi-language subtitle generation
  • Automated pairing with a secondary background video clip
  • Regenerate option to swap secondary content
  • 200+ stock footage clips library
  • Simple upload-generate-download workflow
  • No-signup free first video
  • 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
  • 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
  • Making a website WCAG 2.2 compliant
  • Adding sign language interpretation to video content
  • Generating alt text/image descriptions at scale
  • Making PDFs and documents accessible with narration
  • Adding accessible audio descriptions to printed marketing materials
  • Social media marketers creating quick split-screen viral videos
  • Creators wanting subtitles without manual editing
  • Users repurposing YouTube links into short vertical clips
  • Subtitling videos for creators
  • Translating video into English captions
  • Transcribing recordings to text
  • 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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