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

896K visits/mo5.1K saves
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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
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Captionic
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Free AI tool that auto-generates subtitles and embeds them into short videos, with multi-language support.

4.6K visits/mo
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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
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

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

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)
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 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
  • 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
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
  • 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
  • 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
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