Upload the clip or paste its link, download the SRT, and import it into CapCut on desktop. You get captions in the right language with your corrections, and CapCut does what it is good at: the look.
How it works
Upload the exact clip you are editing, or its audio, so the cue times match your timeline. Correct any names, then download .srt.
Open the Text panel, choose Local captions, click Import and pick the SRT. CapCut reads SRT, LRC and ASS files.
Select the caption track to change font, size, colour, position and animation for every caption at once, then export the video.
Why bring your own SRT
Making it fit a vertical clip
Cues in the file follow the speaker's phrasing: usually a few seconds each, sometimes much longer when someone talks without a pause. Vertical video wants short bursts of two to five words. After importing:
The phone app does not offer the same caption-file import; do this step on desktop. More on vertical formats: subtitles for Shorts and Reels.
Sample output
1 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:46,500 fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition 2 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:50,300 that all men are created equal. 3 00:00:50,300 --> 00:00:57,500 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived 4 00:00:57,500 --> 00:01:01,620 and so dedicated, can long endure. 5 00:01:01,620 --> 00:01:07,920 We are met on a great battlefield of that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that field 6 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:14,240 as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that their nation might live 7 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,800 it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this
Real output, unedited: a public-domain LibriVox reading of the Gettysburg Address (2 min 41 s) transcribed here in October 2026. The repeated word and the missing capitals are what came back; you would fix those on the transcript before downloading.
Before you rely on it
Each cue is a phrase from the transcript with its start and end time. Most run a few seconds. A passage spoken without a pause can come out as one long cue of up to about half a minute, so split those in your editor if your platform wants two short lines at a time.
Cue times are taken from the recording itself, so the file lines up with the video or audio you uploaded. If you trim the start of the video afterwards, shift the cues by the same amount in your editor.
On public test recordings, about 7 words in 100 differed from the reference for clean English read speech, between 4 and 9 in 100 for Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, French and German, and about 21 in 100 for Hindi. Noisy rooms, music and crosstalk do worse. Method and every number: the benchmark.
Open the transcript, correct a misheard name or number on its line, and the SRT and VTT you download carry the correction with the timing unchanged.
You get the subtitle file. Fonts, colours, position and captions drawn into the picture are done in your video editor or player, which reads this file.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per recording. The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; larger ones continue on the upload page. 99+ languages, detected automatically.
Pricing
The preview is free. When the full transcript needs a pack, one-time packs are $4 for 500 minutes, $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, which comes to about $0.29 to $0.48 per hour of audio.
| Recording | $4 or $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30-second clip | $0.01 | $0.01 | $0.00 |
| 3-minute video | $0.02 | $0.02 | $0.01 |
| 1-hour recording to cut into clips | $0.48 | $0.36 | $0.29 |
Figures are the share of a pack each recording uses. A button opens secure checkout for that pack. Every export format is included; full details on the pricing page.
FAQ
In the CapCut desktop app open the Text panel, choose Local captions, click Import and select the SRT. The captions land on the timeline as a caption track you can style.
The caption-file import is in the desktop app. Edit on desktop for this step, or use the app's own auto captions on the phone.
For languages auto captions handle badly, for translated captions, and when you want one corrected text to reuse across platforms.
Split them. Cues follow the speaker's phrasing, so a long sentence can be one caption; cut it into shorter pieces in CapCut's caption editor after importing.
Yes. With credits on the account, the download menu translates the subtitles into 35 languages as an SRT with the same timing, ready to import.
Every page in this set uses the same upload box and the same export. All subtitle pages
Free preview. A 60-second clip uses one minute of a pack; packs from $4.