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SubCaptioner provides anyone with an audio or video file a simple way to convert speech to text. Our automated transcription service is powered by automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology that detects speech and converts it to text with high levels of accuracy. 

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Transcriptions for Educators

 

Whether you’re a teacher looking to help your students learn better, or a student looking to enhance your study skills, transcriptions can help. Text transcripts, as well as closed captions, help individuals learn better by improving comprehension and retention rates. Transcripts also provide an extra study tool for students and improve learning for foreign-language and hard-of-hearing individuals.

Transcriptions for Businesses

 

Businesses are hosts to a wide range of content that needs to be transcribed. Recorded interviews, meetings, and conferences often need to be accurately transcribed to keep an easy record of what was said. Marketing material also needs to be transcribed as a text document and as closed captions in order to ensure that the intended audience is able to access the content no matter their circumstances.

Transcriptions for Creators

 

The world of online content is booming, with more podcasts, YouTube channels, and documentaries being made now more than ever. To access a wider audience, all of this content needs to be transcribed. These transcriptions and closed captions can also boost SEO performance and allow creators to acheive more success in a competitive online space.

Transcriptions for Religious Organizations

 

Many religious organizations are using video and audio content to share their message online with a larger audience. Recorded sermons and services can be easily transcribed and captioned using SubCaptioner to ensure that the messages are accessible to everyone, including those with hearing loss or who speak a second language. Transcribing content with SubCaptioner is also affordable, meaning that even organizations with a small budget can still make their content accessible. 

Transcriptions for Radio

 

Radio stations are constantly interviewing guests and recording conversations that they need to take quotes out of for social media content or future reference. Transcribing content from a radio or podcast is fast and easy with SubCaptioner and provides an accurate text transcript to be used in multiple ways. These transcripts can even be uploaded online alongside a radio recording or podcast episode to boost SEO rankings on search engines. 

Transcriptions for Government

 

Government organizations have the responsibility of sharing important information with the public in a manner that is easily accessible to everyone. That means that this content needs to be accessible to those who are hard of hearing, who speak a foreign language, or who watch recordings with the sound off. Transcriptions and closed captions are an easy way to make government content accessible. They also provide a simple way of keeping a record of important information for future reference.

Why you should transcribe your content

Adding transcription and closed caption files to the audio or video content you post online can improve your content’s accessibility, usability, SEO performance, engagement rates, and shareability.

Accessibility

69% of people watch videos online with the sound off. Without closed captions or a text transcript, content isn’t accessible to them. Untranscribed content also is inaccessible to individuals who are deaf or experience hearing loss.

Usability

Consider, also, the benefits of having a written text version of your video or audio file. This text file can be used to easily pull quotes and create other content for social media as well as store information for future reference and use.

SEO Performance

Transcriptions are full of keywords that make it easier for search engines, such as Google, to crawl and index your content. Better indexing leads to more search traffic and viewers.

Engagement Rates

Videos that are captioned get 40% more views and often experience a longer average watch time. When viewers watch the video the whole way through, they’re more likely to interact by liking, commenting, or sharing. Transcripts also improve engagement on podcasts, by giving viewers a place to click on links or share quotes.

Shareability

It can be difficult for viewers, especially viewers who are also reporters, to share direct quotes from your content if it isn’t transcribed. Providing a transcript of your content gives individuals the chance to copy and paste portions of what was said and share it with their own personal communities.

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Frequently asked questions

Have questions about our captioning software? Read through the FAQs and if your question still isn't answered, feel free to contact us.

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Our automated voice processing solution is faster than real time and most files, under 8 minutes, are ready in just a few minutes. Longer files, obviously, take a bit more time but SubCaptioner is much faster than a human captioner at a fraction of the cost.

We offer special pricing for bulk orders. If you have 50+ hours to caption or transcribe, contact us directly at support@subcaptioner.com.

We currently offer closed captioning services for over 45 languages including Arabic, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Cantonese (Traditional), Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (American, Australian or British spelling), Esperanto, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Mandarin (Simplified or Traditional), Marathi, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uyghur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Welsh. It’s important to note that accuracy can vary across languages.

We offer automated subtitle translations in over 30 different languages. Visit our “Automatic Subtitle Translator” page to learn more about this service and prices.

Our team is always available to help if you have any concerns about your order. Send us an email at sc.support@broadstream.com and we’ll respond as fast as we can. Contact us here.

Once you’ve downloaded your closed caption file, you can easily upload this file alongside your video to any platform that you use for video publishing. On Youtube, for example, just look for the menu tab “subtitles” and you’ll be able to easily upload your SRT file here.

We understand that your file and payment safety is incredibly important. We use a secured payment system through Stripe to ensure that your payment information is secure and encrypted. Media files processed by SubCaptioner are deleted once your caption or transcription files have been created and are never seen by anyone other than the ASR technology.

Yes, a minimum charge of $1 US (or equivalent) applies to all transactions – the equivalent of 4 minutes. If you have media files under 4 minutes, we recommend uploading multiple videos to the same cart before checkout.

Many video players (such as VLC) allow you to preview your video with captions from an SRT file such as that created by SubCaptioner. If you spot an error then the SRT file can be easily modified in any text editor. For more advanced editing and/or longer media files, we recommend a caption/subtitle editing software such as WinCaps.

When checking out, you will be given prices in US Dollars ($), Euros (€), or British Pounds (£) depending on your location.

SubCaptioner supports MP3, WAV, MP4, WMV, and MPEG1 as input files. For output files, we provide SRT and WebVTT subtitle/caption files as well as TXT transcript files.

Our maximum input file size is 1GB with a maximum duration of 120 minutes. If your video is over 1GB but less than 120 minutes long, we recommend you convert the file into an mp3 prior to upload.

SubCaptioner is supported on the latest desktop versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Vivaldi. File upload capabilities may not be available on other web browsers such as Safari Mac OS. The use of mobile devices is not currently recommended.

Try out SubCaptioner for FREE with a US$10 free credit (equivalent to 40 minutes of free transcription/captions) when you create a new account. No payment card is required to access this free credit. To use the credit, simply upload any media file up to 40 minutes long (or multiple files adding up to the equivalent length). Adding translated subtitles will deduct the free credit total at an additional $0.25/minute. Your free credit never expires, but cannot be used as a part payment for larger files.

There have been cases of users not being able to log in to their SubCaptioner account due to Bitdefender blocking their access. We recommend deleting Bitdefender from your computer if this problem occurs and using a different cybersecurity software.