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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.
To turn non-English audio or video into English, you transcribe the speech first and then translate the text — two steps, not one. AI does the heavy lifting well now, but some languages are far harder to get right than others. This guide walks the general workflow and shows where AI shines and where you still do the work, with real examples from the tough cases.
An honest, documentation-based roundup of live captioning tools and services for 2026 — segmented into human-CART / enterprise providers (Ai-Media, Verbit, 3Play Media) and AI-automatic / self-service tools (Otter, Wordly, EventCAT, Subanana). Which fits your event, your budget, and your accuracy bar.
Google Meet can save a transcript and even take AI meeting notes — but only in 8 languages, only on a paid Workspace edition, and the saved record skips Chinese entirely. This guide explains exactly what Meet's built-in transcript and Gemini notes do, where the limits are, and when it's worth using Subanana to get a structured, multilingual meeting record with speaker labels and an AI summary.
Notta is a Tokyo-headquartered meeting AI with strong Japanese support, an expanding hardware lineup, and a credit-metered AI workspace. This compares Notta and Subanana on pricing, language support, integrations, and AI summary — based on each tool's published documentation.
YouTube Studio's auto-captions are decent for clean English audio. They break for non-English content, mixed-language audio, and creators distributing across regions. This walks the three native YouTube subtitle paths, where auto-captions excel, where they fail, and the AI-SRT workflow that fills the gap.
A documentation-based roundup of Wordly alternatives for live multilingual captioning and translation — KUDO, Interprefy, built-in platform translation, and Subanana. Pricing models, language coverage, and where each fits.
An SRT file is one of the most widely supported plain-text subtitle formats: numbered cues, timecodes, and subtitle text — nothing else. This guide explains the SRT format with a real example, the three ways to open one (text editor, subtitle editor, media player), and how to create SRT files yourself.
Filmora has a built-in auto-caption feature on paid plans — credit-metered, and covering 45 languages per Wondershare's published list. The gap is proper nouns: its documentation describes no glossary. This guide covers Filmora's manual Titles, its Speech-to-Text, SRT import, and a Subanana workflow for brand-heavy or multilingual video.
Webex has built-in transcription, but it's paid-plan-gated and stops at a transcript. Here's how Webex Assistant works, and how to turn any Webex recording into a transcript plus a summary with decisions and action items.
Instagram's built-in Captions sticker is fast but unreliable for non-English audio and gives you no styling control. This guide walks through every viable method for adding captions to Reels — including the workflow most creators end up adopting once they outgrow the built-in option.
Academic transcription turns lectures, research interviews, and dissertation recordings into text you can quote, code, and cite. This buyer's guide compares manual typing, AI speech-to-text, and human transcription on accuracy, speaker labels, export, and cost — and shows when AI is enough and when it isn't.
Subanana now pays you to share it. Your friend gets 30% off, you earn 20% of what they spend (up to $50 per referral), and rewards are real cash you withdraw through Cello — here's exactly how it works and how to start.