Most short video is watched with the sound off, so the captions are the content. Get them right here: accurate text with timing as an SRT. Then make them look good in the editor you already use.
How it works
Upload the clip before captions are added, or paste the link of one already posted.
Check names, slang and numbers. On a 40-second clip one wrong word is most of what a viewer notices.
Import the SRT into CapCut, Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, split long cues into short bursts, style, and export.
What this does and does not do
This page gives you the subtitle file: the right words at the right times. It does not draw captions into the video or animate them word by word. That part belongs to an editor, and every common one imports SRT:
Why not just use the platform's auto captions? Use them when they are right. Bring your own when the language is poorly supported, when the same clip goes to three platforms, when you want a translated version, or when brand and people's names must be spelled correctly.
Rules of thumb for vertical captions
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. Usage is rounded up to the minute per file.
| Recording | $4 or $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| One 60-second clip | $0.01 | $0.01 | $0.00 |
| 30 clips of 45 seconds | $0.24 | $0.18 | $0.14 |
| A 1-hour recording you clip from | $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
Either upload an SRT to the Short in YouTube Studio under Subtitles, or import the SRT into your editor and export the Short with captions drawn into the picture.
No. Neither accepts subtitle files. Import the SRT into an editor such as CapCut and export the video with the captions on it.
No. You get an SRT with one cue per spoken phrase. Animated and highlighted styles are applied in your video editor after importing the file.
Usage is per minute of audio, so a 60-second clip uses one minute. The $4 pack holds 500 minutes and credits never expire.
Yes. With credits on the account, translate the subtitles into 35 languages from the download menu and import each SRT as its own caption track.
Every page in this set uses the same upload box and the same export. All subtitle pages
Free preview. SRT for any editor; packs from $4.