LinkedIn video plays muted in the feed, and it accepts a caption file. Make an SRT from your video here, attach it in the post composer, and your first sentence is readable before anyone taps for sound.
How it works
Upload the final video or its audio. Correct people's names, company names and job titles on the transcript, then download .srt.
In the LinkedIn composer add the video, then open the video's edit settings.
Choose the option to select a caption file, pick the SRT, save and post. Viewers get a CC control on the video.
What LinkedIn accepts
.srt. If you have a VTT, convert it with VTT to SRT or download SRT directly.Getting more from the same video
The job that makes the SRT also gives you a summary, key quotes with the speakers named, and chapters. Those are most of a LinkedIn post already: a quote for the first line, three takeaways for the body. The free LinkedIn post from video tool is built around that.
Two formatting habits help on LinkedIn specifically. Keep the first cue short and strong, because it is what shows while the video autoplays. And if the video is vertical or square for mobile, consider drawing the captions into the picture in your editor as well, since a share of viewers never touch the CC control: subtitles for Shorts and Reels covers that route.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60-second update | $0.01 | $0.01 | $0.00 |
| 5-minute explainer | $0.04 | $0.03 | $0.02 |
| 40-minute webinar recording | $0.32 | $0.24 | $0.19 |
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 desktop post composer, add your video, open the video's edit settings, choose to select a caption file, pick the SRT, then save and post.
SRT. If your captions are in VTT, convert them to SRT first or download the SRT version.
Plan to attach the file while composing. If the option is not offered when you edit the post later, post the video again with the SRT attached.
For some languages. Uploading your own SRT gives you control over names, titles and technical terms.
Yes. With credits on the account, translate the subtitles into 35 languages from the download menu and attach the translated SRT to a separate post.
Every page in this set uses the same upload box and the same export. All subtitle pages
Free preview. A five-minute video uses five minutes of a pack; packs from $4.