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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.
Rev is the established enterprise transcription incumbent — human-verified accuracy, HIPAA + CJIS compliance, broad enterprise integrations. Subanana plays narrower: multilingual transcription tuned for code-switched and Asian-language audio, plus live multilingual event captions. Different tools for different jobs.
Fellow.app combines agenda templates, collaborative meeting notes, and AI summaries in one meeting-management workflow tool. This compares Fellow and Subanana on pricing, language support, integrations, and AI summary — based on each tool's published documentation.
After an interview you have an hour or two of audio, but what you actually need is a transcript that shows who said what and can be quoted directly. This guide compares manual transcription, free auto-caption tools, and AI transcription, then shows how to use Subanana's transcript mode to produce a speaker-labelled, punctuated, paragraphed interview transcript.
Two ways to get a YouTube video transcript — the built-in Show transcript panel, and pasting the link into an AI transcription tool. Here is how each works, how accurate they are, which languages and export formats you get, and when to use which.
A documentation-based roundup of the best AI note takers for Microsoft Teams in 2026 — bot vs bot-free capture, free tiers, language coverage, and which one fits your meetings.
To record a Google Meet, you need an eligible paid Google Workspace edition (or a Google One plan with 2 TB+ storage), you have to be on a computer or Android device, and you must either be the host or have the host's permission — there is no recording on a free personal Google account. This guide covers exactly who can hit Record, where the file lands, and how to turn that recording into a searchable, multilingual transcript and AI summary afterward. I run Subanana, so I'll show our path at the end, but most of this is just how Google Meet itself works.
ASR — automatic speech recognition — is the technology that turns spoken audio into text. This is a plain-English explainer: what ASR is, how the pipeline actually works, the factors that make one recording transcribe cleanly and another come back full of errors, and how ASR compares to human transcription. Written by someone who runs a transcription tool, with every technical claim sourced to public documentation.
No — iMovie has no automatic captions. Apple's free editor offers no speech-to-text and no subtitle-file import, so every iMovie subtitle is typed by hand as a Title overlay. This guide covers the manual method on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and the faster SRT route for longer or multilingual video.
A documentation-based roundup of Fireflies.ai alternatives — Otter, Fathom, Descript, Happy Scribe, Rev, and Subanana. When Fireflies is still right, which alternative wins for which buyer, and what the trade-offs are.
Twelve copy-paste meeting minutes templates — board, team, standup, 1:1, client, and more — plus a faster option: record the meeting and let AI fill the template in for you, in 95+ languages.
Easily add subtitles in DaVinci Resolve with this guide. Discover automatic and manual subtitle methods, import tips, and best practices for professional video captions.
Fathom is the "free unlimited" sales-team meeting assistant with native Salesforce / HubSpot integration. Subanana plays a different shape — multilingual transcription tuned for code-switched and Asian-language audio, plus live event captioning. Honest pricing comparison and where each one fits.