Captions & TranscriptionEdit and finish
Auto captions for video, timed to every spoken word
Muvomi writes auto captions from the speech in your video and gives every word its own time, in 51 languages: English, 14 Indian languages and 36 of the world's, in their own script, in Latin letters (Hinglish, Tanglish, Pinyin, Romaji) or translated. Pick one of 87 caption templates, correct any line, then export the video with the captions on it or download an SRT or VTT file.
What Captions & Transcription can do
Captions from speech in one press
Press Auto-caption and the speech in the selected clip, or in every video clip that can be heard, becomes captions on the timeline. A recording is transcribed once and its transcript is kept for next time.
A time for every word
Each word carries its own start and end on the 30 frames a second timeline. Looks that follow the voice use them to light, underline or reveal the word being said.
Captions in 51 languages
Language starts on Auto and takes the language from the voice: English, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese, Nepali and Sindhi, or 36 languages of the world, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Japanese among them, with the English words people mix in. Write them in the language's own script, in Latin letters (Hinglish, Banglish, Telugish, Tenglish, Tanglish and more) or translated into 51 languages. A change of writing writes the captions again at once, without listening again. See captions in 51 languages.
Line breaks an editor would make
Captions break at sentences (the danda of the Indian scripts, the Urdu full stop and the 。！？ of Chinese and Japanese end one too), commas and pauses longer than 0.6 seconds; Thai, at its phrases' pauses. A caption is written to about 34 characters and at most seven words, and the breaks avoid leaving a line that ends on a word such as the, of or and.
87 caption templates in 9 groups
The groups are Follow the voice, Multicolour, Big type, Boxes and labels, Entrances, Editorial, Playful, Screen and retro, and Essentials. Search them by name in the editor, or watch every one play on the caption templates page at muvomi.com/caption-templates.
Colour, position and size
Set the text colour and the highlight colour, switch word highlighting on or off, place captions at the top, the centre or the bottom of the frame, and scale them from 60% to 160%.
Fix the words, keep the timing
Correct any caption in the list beside the preview and set its start and end to a tenth of a second. A fix that keeps the number of words keeps each word's spoken time; a rewrite is paced evenly across the caption.
Captions that survive a cut
Ripple delete, silence removal and filler-word removal take the same stretch of time out of every track, captions included. A filler word cut from the recording leaves its caption as well.
SRT and VTT subtitle files
Download the captions as an SRT or a WebVTT file for players and platforms that take a separate subtitle track.
Captions drawn into the picture
Export the MP4 and the captions are part of the image, in the look you chose, so they show wherever the video plays with the sound off.
Captions in 51 languages
English, the Indian languages and the world's, each with the English words people mix in. Write the captions in Latin letters, in the language's own script, or translated into 51 languages; one choice changes them all, at once.
- हिन्दीHindi captionsHinglish
- বাংলাBengali captionsBanglish
- मराठीMarathi captionsMarathi in Latin letters
- తెలుగుTelugu captionsTelugish, Tenglish
- தமிழ்Tamil captionsTanglish
- ગુજરાતીGujarati captionsGujlish
- اردوUrdu captionsRoman Urdu
- ಕನ್ನಡKannada captionsKanglish
- ଓଡ଼ିଆOdia captionsOdia in Latin letters
- മലയാളംMalayalam captionsManglish
- ਪੰਜਾਬੀPunjabi captionsPunglish
- অসমীয়াAssamese captionsAssamese in Latin letters
- नेपालीNepali captionsNepali in Latin letters
- سنڌيSindhi captionsSindhi in Latin letters
- EspañolSpanish captionsAs said
- 中文Chinese (Mandarin) captionsPinyin
- العربيةArabic captionsArabic in Latin letters
- PortuguêsPortuguese captionsAs said
- РусскийRussian captionstranslit
- 日本語Japanese captionsRomaji
- FrançaisFrench captionsAs said
- DeutschGerman captionsAs said
- Bahasa IndonesiaIndonesian captionsAs said
- 한국어Korean captionsRevised Romanization
- Tiếng ViệtVietnamese captionsAs said
- فارسیPersian captionsFinglish
- ไทยThai captionsRTGS
- FilipinoFilipino captionsAs said
- ΕλληνικάGreek captionsGreeklish
- עבריתHebrew captionsHebrew in Latin letters
How Captions & Transcription works
Put a video on the timeline
Open the video editor and import a video, or an audio recording, that has speech in it.
Press Auto-caption
Open Captions and press Auto-caption this video, or select one clip to caption only that. Language starts on Auto, which takes the language from the voice, and Write in sets Latin letters, the language's own script or a translation. The captions appear on a track of their own under the clips.
Choose a caption look
Pick a template and watch it on your own footage. Change the colours, the position and the size until it suits the frame.
Read the words through
Go down the caption list and correct names and terms. Click a caption's time to jump to it in the preview.
Export or download
Export the video with the captions on it, or download the SRT or VTT file.
Captions & Transcription formats and limits
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| Detail | Captions & Transcription |
|---|---|
| What goes in | A video (MP4, WebM) or an audio recording (MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC) with speech, up to 10 minutes and 100 MB |
| What comes out | Captions timed word by word, drawn into the exported MP4, and SRT or WebVTT files |
| Caption templates | 87 in 9 groups: Follow the voice 16, Big type 11, Boxes and labels 11, Entrances 11, Multicolour 10, Playful 8, Essentials 8, Editorial 7, Screen and retro 5 |
| Caption length | Written to about 34 characters and at most 7 words. Up to 240 characters when you edit one |
| Captions in an edit | Up to 500 |
| Timing | A start and an end for every word, in frames at 30 a second. Caption times editable in steps of 0.1 seconds |
| Look controls | Text colour, highlight colour, word highlighting on or off, top, centre or bottom, size 60% to 160% |
| One press | Up to 4 recordings transcribed at a time. Select a clip to caption the rest |
| Languages | 51: English; 14 Indian languages, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese, Nepali and Sindhi; and 36 of the world's, Arabic, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Auto (from the voice) or chosen |
| Written in | The language's own script, Latin letters, or a translation into 51 languages. Filler-word removal is written for English |
Who Captions & Transcription is for
Short-form video creators
Put word-by-word captions on an upright clip so it reads with the sound off, in a look that matches the channel.
Teams publishing talks and webinars
Caption a recording, correct the speakers' names once, and download an SRT for the video platform.
Course makers
Give every lesson readable subtitles and keep the VTT file for the course player.
Podcasters posting clips
Import the audio of an episode, caption the passage you want and export it as a captioned clip over a picture.
Creators who speak Indian languages
Caption a Hinglish, Tanglish or Telugish reel the way your audience types it, or switch it to the language's own script or to a translation for viewers beyond it.
Anyone whose viewers need the words
Captions carry speech to people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and to people watching in a second language. Edit them until every word is right.
Auto captions questions, answered
How do I add captions to a video automatically?
Open the video in the editor, open Captions and press Auto-caption this video. The speech is transcribed and the captions are laid on the timeline at the moments the words are said.
How accurate are auto captions?
It depends on the recording. Clear speech close to the microphone transcribes well; names, jargon, heavy noise and people talking over each other are where mistakes appear. Every caption is editable, so read them through before you export.
Which languages do auto captions support?
51 languages: English; 14 Indian languages, Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Urdu, Kannada, Odia, Malayalam, Punjabi, Assamese, Nepali and Sindhi; and 36 of the world's, Arabic, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Language starts on Auto, which takes the language from the voice, with the English words mixed into it. Captions can be written in the language's own script, in Latin letters (Hinglish, Tanglish, Pinyin, Romaji and more), or translated into 51 languages. The 51 languages, with real captions.
Can I download an SRT or VTT file?
Yes. Once an edit has captions, the Captions panel has Download SRT and Download VTT. The files carry the text and the times; the look and the word highlighting exist only in the exported video.
Where can I see the caption styles?
All 87 caption templates are in the editor's Captions panel, grouped and searchable. The caption templates page is public: it plays each one, and you can type your own words to try a look.
Are the captions burned into the exported video?
Yes. An MP4 exported from the editor has the captions drawn into the picture, and there is no export switch that leaves them out. For captions a viewer can switch off, give the SRT or VTT file to the platform's own caption track.
How many credits do captions use?
A captions job uses 10 credits: listening to a recording, once, and writing its words in Latin letters or translating them the first time each is asked for. Going back to a writing already made, editing captions, changing the look, downloading subtitle files and exporting use nothing.
What do auto captions not do?
They translate only into English, and do not name who is speaking or caption a live stream. Urdu and Sindhi captions are not drawn in their own script, which runs right to left. A recording longer than 10 minutes or larger than 100 MB cannot be imported, so cut it into parts first.
Captions & Transcription
Every word, on screen, on time.
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