Upload the video before you publish, or paste its link afterwards. You get an SRT you can correct and then add in YouTube Studio as a proper subtitle track, instead of relying on automatic captions.
How it works
Before publishing, upload the final export or its audio. For a video already on your channel, paste its link.
Fix names, brand words and anything misheard on the transcript, then download .srt.
Open the video in Studio, choose Subtitles, add the language, click Add, then Upload file, pick With timing, and choose the SRT. Publish.
Why upload your own
YouTube's automatic captions appear on their own schedule, are not available for every language or every video, and are labelled as auto-generated. A track you upload is different in ways that matter:
Studio details worth knowing
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8-minute video | $0.06 | $0.05 | $0.04 |
| 20-minute video | $0.16 | $0.12 | $0.10 |
| A month of weekly 30-minute videos | $0.96 | $0.72 | $0.58 |
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
Upload the video or paste its YouTube link in the box on this page, correct the transcript, and download the SRT. Then add it in YouTube Studio under Subtitles with the Upload file option.
In YouTube Studio open the video, choose Subtitles, add a language, click Add, choose Upload file, select With timing, pick the SRT and publish.
They are yours to check before anyone sees them. You correct names and terms once, and the uploaded track is not labelled auto-generated. Accuracy on clean speech is high but not perfect, which is why the correction step is there.
Yes. Upload the final export or its audio here, then add the SRT while the video is still a draft or scheduled, so captions are present from the first view.
Yes. With credits on the account, translate the subtitles into any of 35 languages from the download menu, then add each language in YouTube Studio and upload its SRT.
Every page in this set uses the same upload box and the same export. All subtitle pages
Free preview. One upload gives SRT, VTT and the full transcript; packs from $4.