Can I get them in several languages at once?

Yes. The audio is heard once and every language comes out of that listen, so the second language costs 35% rather than another whole one.

Do they carry speaker names?

They can, when there is more than one voice — the label goes on the first subtitle of each turn and not on every line, which would fill the screen with what you already know.

Can I edit them afterwards?

They are plain SRT and VTT files. Any subtitle editor opens them, and so does a text editor.

Do the timings drift on a long video?

No. Each turn carries its own start and end from the audio, so an hour in they are still where the words are.

Can I burn them into the video?

Not from us — we give you the file. ffmpeg burns them in with one command, and keeping them separate means a viewer can turn them off.

Subtitles for your recordings

SRT and VTT files with timings that land where the words do, lines short enough to read on a phone, and no subtitle that flashes past before anybody has finished it.

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Fourteen languages
You pay for speech, not silence
No monthly fee

Who this is for

Anyone publishing video who would rather not lose the half of the audience that watches with the sound off. Training material that has to be followed in a shared office. A recorded service that goes out to people who read better than they hear. Anything that has to meet an accessibility requirement.

How it works

1
You upload the video or the audio. We take the sound out and find where the speech is.
2
It is transcribed, and translated too if you asked for other languages.
3
The text is cut into subtitles where a sentence ends, not where a character count runs out.
4
You download an SRT and a VTT per language, ready to drop into a player.

What you get

SRT and VTT, the two formats every player takes.
One file per language, all out of the same recording.
Lines of at most 42 characters and never more than two: what fits on a phone without covering the picture.
Nothing on screen for under a second or over seven: no flashes, and nothing that looks like the video froze.
Cut at sentence ends, so no subtitle starts mid-word.
Who is speaking, when there is more than one voice and you asked for it.

Worth knowing: Subtitles come from a recording, because they need timings — a translated document has no clock to hang them on. Timings within a turn are shared out by length rather than measured word by word, which is accurate enough to read along with and not enough to sync lips to.

What it costs

Included

Subtitles are a way of downloading a job you already paid for: 3 € an hour of speech to transcribe, 6 € to translate as well. Asking for SRT instead of text costs nothing extra, and you can come back for a different format a week later.

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Questions

Can I get them in several languages at once?: Yes. The audio is heard once and every language comes out of that listen, so the second language costs 35% rather than another whole one.
Do they carry speaker names?: They can, when there is more than one voice — the label goes on the first subtitle of each turn and not on every line, which would fill the screen with what you already know.
Can I edit them afterwards?: They are plain SRT and VTT files. Any subtitle editor opens them, and so does a text editor.
Do the timings drift on a long video?: No. Each turn carries its own start and end from the audio, so an hour in they are still where the words are.
Can I burn them into the video?: Not from us — we give you the file. ffmpeg burns them in with one command, and keeping them separate means a viewer can turn them off.

One recording is enough to judge

Send one, download the SRT, and drag it onto the video. That tells you more than any sample we could show you.

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