How to generate subtitles automatically for free

Les subtitles are essential to reach a large audience on the Internet.

Since manual subtitling is long and tedious, more and more automatic solutions are emerging.

In this article, learn how to easily generate and for free subtitles for your videos with Capte.

Why generate subtitles?

Before we see how to do it, let's look at why the automatic subtitling is a valuable feature:

• Accessibility : allow the hearing impaired to access video content
• Commitment : subtitles increase video viewing rates
• SEO : the subtitle text is indexed by search engines
• Virality : makes it easy to share videos on social networks
• Monetization : opens up new advertising revenue opportunities
• Translation : subtitle in several languages to reach an international audience
• Learning : help with the memorization and understanding of a language

In short, lots of good reasons to generate subtitles!

Free solutions for automatic subtitling

There are several online tools that allow subtitles to be generated automatically and for free. Here are 3 of the easiest to use:

1. YouTube Studio

youtube natively offers a fairly effective automatic subtitling system. Simply upload your video, then in YouTube Studio, activate the option”Automatically add subtitles“.

YouTube will analyze the soundtrack and generate subtitles automatically in the detected language. Of course, errors are possible, the generated text will have to be re-read and corrected.

The advantage is that it's free, fast, and integrated directly into youtube.

2. Capte

Capte aka, us!

The big difference with YouTube will be the precision of the subtitles generated.

With Capte it is 99% accurate, you will hardly need to reread the result obtained. There may be a few mistakes about proper nouns and words that are very poorly pronounced.

Once your text is obtained you will even be able to translate the content very easily and quickly.

You also have the possibility to style the rendering, add animations, titles, your own logo and finally export the video with the integrated subtitles or just the subtitle file to SRT format to integrate them into your video editing.

And right now with our trial period, it's all free, for real, without needing to spend 1 cent or even enter a credit card number.

3. Submagic

Submagic also allows you to generate subtitles on your videos but with several disadvantages compared to Capte.

• you won't be able to export the result for free
• You will be limited in the duration and format of the video
• The accuracy of the subtitles is not optimal

Tips for quality subtitles

Our advice for working with subtitles:

• Review and correct errors after automatic generation
• Do not exceed 2 lines per subtitle
• Use a font Claire and readable like Arial or Open Sans
• Add audio instructions in square brackets if necessary
• Optimize for research with relevant keywords

By following these best practices, you will quickly get quality subtitles to improve your videos!

In conclusion

Automatic subtitling is a valuable time-saver in making your video content accessible and engaging your audience.

However, remember to review and refine the automatically generated subtitles. And add subtitles in multiple languages to reach a global audience.

It's up to you to play!

Try automatic subtitling and find out our offers to do even more!

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