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Auto Captioning Subtitles Captions Video Editing Video

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

Captionic

✓ verifiedFree

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

4.6K visits/mo

Banva

✓ verifiedFreemium

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

15K visits/mo

Maestra

✓ verifiedFreemium

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

1.5M visits/mo

BeepThatOut

✓ verifiedFree trial

Web tool that auto-detects and bleeps profanity in audio and video, with subtitle export and editor integrations.

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

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

Hobby: $26/mo ($21 annual; 12h processing)

Creator: $37/mo ($30 annual; 32h processing)

Studio: $111/mo ($89 annual; 5 users, 100h)

Free trial available

Core features

✦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

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

✦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 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

✦AI profanity detection and censoring
✦Choice of beep, silence or custom sounds
✦Custom word blacklist and manual tuning
✦Export to Premiere Pro, Final Cut, DaVinci
✦Free .srt subtitle generation
✦Support for 50+ languages and long files

Use cases

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

→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

→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

→Cleaning content to protect monetization
→Making videos and podcasts brand-safe
→Generating subtitles alongside censoring

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