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Auto Captioning Subtitles Captions Video Editing 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

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

SubtitleGen

✓ verifiedFreemium

Online subtitle generator that transcribes audio/video, auto-translates captions, and offers browser-based editing and multi-format export.

1.7K saves

RenderCut

✓ verifiedFreemium

Auto-captioning and B-roll tool that turns raw video or audio into short-form content with synced subtitles for TikTok and Reels.

12K saves

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

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

Free: $0 (30 credits, up to 30 min/file)

Starter: $9/mo (120 credits/month, up to 2 hours/file)

Growth: $18/mo (1200 credits/month, up to 5 hours/file)

Pro: $45/mo (4500 credits/month, up to 5 hours/file)

Starter: $12/mo or $9/mo billed annually (30 uploads/month, 5 min per video)

Growth: $25/mo or $19/mo billed annually (80 uploads/month, 10 min per video)

Unlimited: $49/mo or $39/mo billed annually (unlimited uploads, 15 min per video)

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

✦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 transcription
✦Multi-language subtitle translation
✦In-browser subtitle editor
✦Support for major audio/video formats
✦SRT and other export formats
✦Credit-based usage tiers

✦AI-synced auto-captioning in multiple languages and accents
✦Custom caption fonts, colors, and animations
✦Automatic contextual B-roll insertion
✦Auto-inserted GIFs and emoji reactions
✦Audio-to-captioned-video conversion
✦Brand kit and custom template support

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

→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

→Generating subtitles for YouTube videos
→Translating video content for global audiences
→Editing and fine-tuning auto-generated captions
→Producing accessible transcripts from audio files

→Content creators turning long videos into short-form clips
→Agencies producing branded captioned videos at scale
→Podcasters converting audio into captioned video posts
→Marketers localizing captions for multilingual audiences

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