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Guides on subtitling, transcription and live captions, written by the people building them.
Stop retyping what was said.
Guides on subtitling, transcription and live captions, written by the people building them.
Stop retyping what was said.
AI transcription costs roughly $0.08 to $0.30 per minute of audio — about $4.50 to $18 an hour — once you divide a subscription by the time it actually covers. But the sticker price is the wrong number to compare, because the four common pricing models meter completely different things. Here is how to work out what a tool will really cost you.
Most webinar platforms support captions in the speaker's language. Reaching an international audience that needs captions in their own language is a different problem — and one that's gotten much more practical to solve since 2024. Here's how to actually set it up before your next webinar.
Final Cut Pro 12.2 added on-device Transcribe to Captions in 2024 — but Apple's documentation supports English-language audio only. This walks the native Final Cut Pro caption workflow (including the new English STT), where it falls short for Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, and mixed-language video, and the AI-generated SRT method that fills that gap.
Learn how to add subtitles in Premiere Pro with our step-by-step guide, perfect for enhancing viewer engagement. Discover methods for adding subtitles in Adobe Premiere Pro, ensuring your videos are accessible and reach a broader audience. Start mastering Premiere Pro subtitling today and transform your content's impact!
After Effects has no built-in speech-to-text and no native SRT import. This guide covers the four real workflows for adding subtitles in AE 26, ranked by setup time and total cost, and shows where each one breaks.
Vendor accuracy benchmarks are mostly marketing. Here's how we test transcription and subtitle models against real mixed-language, accented, multi-speaker speech — the methodology, the numbers from our own run, and what the published WER scores never tell you.
Captions make your stream watchable with the sound off and open it to viewers who don't share your language. Here's how live captions work on Twitch, YouTube Live and OBS — the built-in options, their limits, and how to add an accurate, translated caption track when you need one.
A practical guide to live captioning university lectures for accessibility and multilingual student audiences — what universities actually need from a live-caption tool, how the setup works, and where Subanana, Wordly, and the lecture-platform-native options each fit.
To translate a video, transcribe its speech, then generate translated subtitles in your target language — and export them as an SRT file or a burned-in video. This guide walks through the full workflow, when AI translation is good enough versus when it needs a human edit, and how to do it for one or several languages at once.
Full verbatim, intelligent (clean) verbatim, or clean read? The transcript format you ask for changes what ends up on the page. Here is what each one keeps, what it drops, and how to pick for legal, research, meetings, and content.
The fastest way to repurpose a video or podcast into a blog post, newsletter, or show notes is to start from an accurate transcript and edit down from there. This guide walks through the transcript-first repurposing workflow — capture, outline, rewrite — and shows how to produce a clean, quotable transcript with Subanana's transcript mode so the raw material is something you can actually reuse.
Speaker labels tell you who said what in a transcript. This guide explains how AI diarization works, where it gets things wrong, and when interviews, meetings, focus groups, and podcasts actually need it.