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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
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Pika 2.2
✓ verifiedFreemium
A generative video platform that turns text or images into short AI videos, with playful visual effects and a video-focused chat agent.
2.2M 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
Basic: $0/month (80 monthly video credits, 480p only, watermark on Turbo/Pro credits)
Standard: $8/month billed yearly (700 monthly video credits, all resolutions)
Pro: $28/month billed yearly (2300 monthly video credits, faster generation)
Fancy: $76/month billed yearly (6000 monthly video credits, fastest generation)
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
- ✦Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
- ✦Pikaffects for stylized transformations of photos into video
- ✦Pika Agent conversational creative assistant
- ✦Pikascenes, Pikadditions and Pikaswaps for scene editing
- ✦Pika MCP to add creative tools to other AI agents
- ✦Commercial usage rights and watermark-free downloads on paid plans
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
- →Producing short social-media-ready video clips from text ideas
- →Turning a single photo into a reality-bending video effect
- →Automating creative content workflows through an AI agent
- →Adding video generation capability to existing AI agent setups via MCP
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