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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.
Closed captions can be switched off; open captions are burned into the picture and can't. SDH is a third thing again. Here's what each one actually is, what accessibility law (FCC, ADA) and the WCAG standard require, and how to choose — with the definitions sourced to the standards bodies that set them.
Microsoft Teams can transcribe your meetings in 44 languages, but turning that raw transcript into a usable record — decisions, action items, owners — often runs into an admin setting or a paid add-on. Here is exactly what Teams transcription does, where the two licensing walls are, and when it is worth using Subanana to get a clean transcript plus a structured summary instead.
A clean, copy-paste meeting minutes template — plus the part most templates skip: how to fill it in minutes instead of typing it up after every call.
Descript is an all-in-one creator studio with transcription, video editing, voice cloning, and AI generation under one roof. Subanana is a transcription and live-caption tool with strong multilingual support. They're different categories — here's how the two products line up on what each publishes about itself.
Canva ships a free auto-caption generator that's good enough for English social-media clips, but reviewers consistently flag two weaknesses — accuracy on proper nouns and brand names (no glossary mechanism), and limited coverage of less-resourced languages. This guide walks through Canva's current (2026) caption workflow step-by-step, then shows when to bring an external transcription tool into the loop.
Subtitles, closed captions, and SDH are not the same thing — and picking the wrong one can fail an accessibility requirement or confuse your audience. Here's the plain-English difference, when to use each, and how to generate the right text track from your audio.
Grain is a sales-call recording platform with deep CRM integrations and revenue-intelligence features. This compares Grain and Subanana on pricing, language support, sales-team workflows, and AI summary — based on each tool's published documentation.
Circleback is a meeting AI assistant focused on action-item extraction and automated follow-up workflows. This compares Circleback and Subanana on pricing, language support, integrations, and AI summary — based on each tool's published documentation.
Speaker labels turn a wall of text into a readable back-and-forth — Speaker 1, Speaker 2, or real names. Here's how automatic speaker labelling works, how to get it, and where it still needs a human eye.
SRT and WebVTT (.vtt) are the two subtitle file formats you'll meet most often — they look almost identical, but they're not interchangeable everywhere. Here's the real difference, where each one is actually supported, how to decide, and how to export either.
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TikTok's auto-Captions are improving fast but still wobble on non-English audio and offer limited styling control. This guide covers the three viable methods — including the AI-SRT workflow that scales when you're producing TikToks at any cadence.