Generate subtitles and captions in seconds.
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99% accurate subtitles in one click
Save time, expand your reach, and increase engagement
Highly-accurate subtitles with minimal edits
Kapwing's Automatic Subtitles Generator offer industry-leading accuracy while streaming the subtitle creation process for individuals and teams — whether for single social media videos or entire content libraries. Simply upload your video or audio file to generate word-by-word subtitles and a fully editable transcript in seconds, with export options like SRT for easy use on other platforms.
Save hours each week by eliminating manual transcription while ensuring your videos are engaging, accessible, and optimized for diverse content needs. Use AI-powered subtitles for training material, social media, YouTube, or educational content, enhancing efficiency without the need for time-consuming edits.
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Make videos more engaging, memorable, and easy to understand
Subtitles enhance clarity, boost retention, and keep viewers engaged, making your content more effective on any platform. They’re especially valuable for product demos, tutorials, and instructional videos, where reading along helps viewers better understand technical terms and step-by-step instructions. This is particularly useful on platforms like YouTube, where built-in captions are often unreliable.
By adding an extra layer of context, subtitles improve comprehension and help maintain audience focus, leading to longer watch times and better information retention. For creators producing in-depth explainers, Kapwing’s auto-subtitles provide an easy way to transform passive watching into active learning without any prior editing experience.
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Customize every detail to match your brand
Kapwing's AI subtitles offer near-limitless one-click customizations, allowing you to adapt captions to a specific brand aesthetic or tailor them for different target audiences. Start with over 100 preset styles or create your own, customizing colors, sizes, drop shadows, borders, and backgrounds. You can even apply different styles for multiple speakers.
Choose from hundreds of fonts (or upload your own), adjust opacity, and apply transitions, automatic emojis, or animated effects like word-by-word highlights to emphasize key terms within sentences. Enjoy full control over even the smallest details, such as line height, subtitle padding, and subtitle line duration. For streamlined cross-team collaboration, add a Brand Kit to store your preferred colors and fonts in one place, perfect for in-house creative teams or global freelancers.
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Scale content globally without high costs
Grow your online community and reach new audiences with subtitle translation in 100+ languages, including Spanish, Chinese, French, and Hindi. With just a few clicks, Kapwing’s online video editing software translates your subtitles and updates your video in seconds.
Skip the cost of expensive translation services and use an AI Subtitle Generator to connect with native speakers worldwide — perfect for translating webinars, ads, podcasts, and e-learning content.
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Reach more viewers with clear, accurate captions
How millions of creators use Kapwing's Auto Subtitles
Tutorials & How-tos
Vloggers use auto-subtitles to create accurate captions for YouTube tutorials and how-to videos, improving discoverability and growing their audience
Social Media Videos
Brand managers creating content for social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok leverage automatic subtitle generation to accelerate their output while enhancing accessibility
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Online Courses
Online educators use the subtitles maker to fine-tune terminology specific to their field and provide students with both subtitles and a transcript for easier note-taking
Webinar Repurposing
The video caption generator allows webinar hosts to transcribe their content into accurate text formats they can edit and repurpose as blog posts, articles, and more
Training Videos
Small business owners use the Auto Subtitle Generator to transcribe speech in internal training videos and provide a matching transcript to help employees refer back to specific points in their onboarding
Product Demos
Ecommerce companies distributing product demos across multiple platforms — their website, Amazon listings, and email campaigns — use the Auto Caption Generator to provide captions in several global languages
Fundraising Campaigns
Nonprofits generate online video subtitles for fundraising campaign promos, customizing the captions' final look for visual clarity and an aesthetic that matches the overall emotional tone of their presentation
Customer Testimonials
Brand managers upload customer testimonial clips to the Video Caption Generator, automatically generate subtitles, reposition them, and alter line height for easy reading, spotlighting accessible client stories and reviews
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Investor Pitches
Startups upload investor pitch videos to the auto-subtitling tool, edit technical terms and financial jargon, and make small adjustments to subtitle timing to avoid covering key graphs and slides
All-in-one localization for global reach
Add subtitles, dubbing, and lip-syncing in Kapwing's Translation Studio
Kapwing’s Translation Studio provides creators with everything they need for comprehensive content localization, all within one online browser. Each AI-powered tool is designed for ease of use, making it accessible to professionals of all skill levels.
With subtitle translations in over 100 languages and a complete dubbing workflow supporting 45+ languages, Kapwing empowers teams and marketers to connect with new audiences worldwide. Generate AI-powered voiceovers that clone the original speaker’s tone naturally, or choose from 180 unique AI voices to find the perfect fit for your content.
Enhance your content with Automatic Lip Syncing, ensuring on-screen speech aligns naturally with translated audio for a more immersive viewing experience. Whether reaching 300 million users on RedNote through Chinese subtitles, localizing online courses for global learners, or creating culturally relevant marketing campaigns, Kapwing makes it easy to expand your content’s impact across international markets.
How to auto generate subtitles with AI
- Upload video
Upload a video to the editor from any device or paste a link from a published video URL. Your video must include sound.
- Add subtitles
Click "Subtitles" in the left-hand toolbar, then select the "Auto subtitles" option (how-to guide) to add subtitles to video or audio. The subtitle maker instantly generates captions. Following this, you can edit the subtitles text, font, design, position, and more.
- Export or download
Select the "Export Project" option in the top-right corner to hardcore your subtitles into the video and download the final file. Alternatively, click the download icon above the subtitle editor to save a transcript in formats like SRT, VTT, and TXT.
Edit and enhance footage 10x faster
From draft to polished final cut with an AI-powered toolkit
Video Translator
Instantly translate the audio in your video using lifelike AI voices or a cloned version of yourself
Video Translator
Lip Sync
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AI Dubbing
Speaker Focus
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Trim with Transcript
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B-roll Generator
Text to Speech
Smart Cut
What's different about Kapwing?
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Auto Subtitle Generator free to try?
Yes, the Auto Subtitle Generator is free for all Kapwing users to try. A Free Account provides you with 10 free minutes of auto-subtitling per month. When you upgrade to a Pro Account, you get access to 300 minutes of automatic subtitles each month, plus the ability to create videos up to 120 minutes long and 300 monthly minutes of video translation.
Is there a watermark on exports?
If you are using Kapwing on a Free account then all exports — including from our subtitles maker — will contain a watermark. Once you upgrade to a Pro account the watermark will be completely removed from every video you create closed captions for.
What file formats are available for transcript downloads?
Kapwing's AI Subtitle Generator provides an editable and downloadable transcript alongside your auto-generated subtitles. Click on the download icon above the subtitle editor and find transcript downloads in SRT, VTT, and TXT file formats, making for easy transcript uploads to Facebook and X (Twitter), or quick saves for future applications. You can even add SRT to MP4 in a couple clicks, so you can hardcoded subtitles to any video in seconds.
How do I translate video subtitles?
Kapwing provides an in-built video translator that can translate to and from over 100+ different languages, including English, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic. Here's how: Upload your video and use the "Auto subtitles" functionality to generate subtitles. Then, select the translate icon above the subtitle editor and select the foreign language you'd like to translate to. Kapwing will translate your subtitles and automatically update your video.
What's the difference between open captions vs closed captions?
Closed captions (CC) display a text representation of spoken content in real time, improving accessibility by displaying dialogue, background sounds, and speaker identification. There are two types: open captions, which are permanently embedded in the video, and closed captions (CC), which viewers can turn on or off as needed.
How to upload your own SRT file for captions
If you already have an SRT file, you can easily add it to your video in Kapwing. Follow these steps to upload and customize your captions:
- Upload a video file via a URL link or the files folder.
- Open the "Subtitles" tab in the left-hand toolbar. Then, select "Upload SRT/VTT" to upload your own captions file.
- Once your SRT subtitles are uploaded, proofread and customize. When you’re finished editing, click "Export Project" and download your video with embedded subtitles.
How to edit subtitles and customize styles
Editing subtitles is done through the text transcript on the left-hand side of the screen. Simply click on the transcript to manually edit the subtitle text or adjust its duration. To customize the style, use the right-hand panel to choose a font, size, color, background, animation, and transition.
What to do if your subtitles are out of sync
Your subtitles should be perfectly synced through AI-powered automation. However, you can manually adjust the timing of each subtitle line by editing the transcript on the left-hand side of the screen. Here, you'll find start and end time columns that allow you to fine-tune the duration of each subtitle for perfect alignment.
How long does it take to auto-generate subtitles?
Videos under 30 seconds typically generate subtitles within a few seconds, while short-form videos take 1-2 minutes and longer videos (60 minutes or more) may take a few minutes to process.
Can subtitles be applied to multiple speakers?
Yes, Kapwing's AI Subtitle Generator automatically detects multiple speakers and separates them into individual subtitle sections, allowing you to edit each one separately. You can customize the color, speed, fonts, and other visual elements of each individual speaker.
Kapwing is free to use for teams of any size. We also offer paid plans with additional features, storage, and support.