Telestream CaptionMaker

Telestream CaptionMaker does not publish a self-serve price — it is quoted by the vendor on contact. Expect an enterprise-style agreement rather than a card-and-go signup.

Telestream CaptionMaker runs on Windows. It is not listed for other platforms; check the vendor for anything beyond Windows.

There is nothing to install — Telestream CaptionMaker is used in the browser. Create an account on the vendor's site and upload or connect your audio.

No. Telestream CaptionMaker does not label speakers; a conversation comes back as one continuous text. If you need speaker labels, that is a separate tool or a different service.

Yes — Telestream CaptionMaker produces timing per word, which is what subtitle cues and clip boundaries need.

No — Telestream CaptionMaker works on finished files, not a live stream.

Telestream CaptionMaker does not claim HIPAA compliance. For PHI, run it on infrastructure you control or choose a service that will sign a BAA.

Authoring tool only — does not perform ASR; transcripts must be supplied.

Windows post-production teams encoding captions for US broadcast deliveries and OTT vendors.

Telestream CaptionMaker runs on your own machine as a desktop app. Check whether the model runs locally or calls a cloud service — some desktop tools do both.

No — Telestream CaptionMaker is a Windows application, not a web app. You install it rather than sign in to it.

In this directory Telestream CaptionMaker is filed under subtitle authoring, broadcast as a desktop app.

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/telestream-captionmaker-alternatives comparing Telestream CaptionMaker with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.

Telestream CaptionMaker is something you run; Whipscribe is something you call. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.