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Auto Captioning Subtitles Captions Video Editing Video

Subsvideo

✓ verifiedFree

Browser-based AI subtitle generator that times pasted transcripts into styled captions and exports them as SRT/VTT without uploading video.

Maestra

✓ verifiedFreemium

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

1.5M visits/mo

Captionic

✓ verifiedFree

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

4.6K visits/mo

CaptionCreator

✓ verifiedPaid

AI subtitle/transcription tool (50+ languages) - but the service is shutting down, with new signups and payments disabled.

11K 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

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

No public pricing

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

✦Transcript-to-timed-caption generation
✦Multiple caption style presets (cinema, broadcast, coral band, etc.)
✦Adjustable caption position and reading speed
✦Translation into 13 languages
✦SRT and VTT export
✦No sign-up, runs locally in browser

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

✦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

→Adding readable subtitles to short-form social videos
→Localizing video captions into other languages
→Prepping caption files for YouTube, Premiere, or CapCut
→Styling captions to match a video's visual theme

→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

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

→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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