Video Caption Generator

Improve accessibility and be more inclusive for your viewers by adding captions to videos. Easily add captions to videos using your preferred method, including with our AI Caption Generator.

Available for free and paid plans, depending on the method.

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Captions from file

Speech to text

Captions editor

Storyboard script

Easily add captions to your videos

Improve viewer experience with inclusive videos

Meet accessibility requirements for ADA and 508 regulations. Expand your audience size to include the hearing impaired.

Increase engagement with more views, and longer watch times. Improve retention with a better understanding of the information.

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Flexible & easy to use

Implement in the screen recorder, video editor, and hosting platform.

Create manual or auto-captions, open or closed captions. Choose from 88 language dialects for Speech-to-Text captions using the AI Caption Generator. Add multiple captions files and languages in our hosting platform.

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Captions are beneficial for all video creators

Education

With captions, you can ensure your videos are easy to understand and accessible for all learners, regardless of their hearing ability or audio settings.

Businesses

Captions help your information get indexed by search engines, like Google and YouTube, which can improve video rankings and views to increase business.

Individuals

Individuals, such as social media influencers, use captions to help their videos stand out from the crowd and help viewers understand your content.

Expand your audience with captions

With ScreenPal, you can upload, edit, and add captions to your videos.

Quickly add automated captions with AI powered Speech-to-Text, upload a captions or subtitles file, use our interactive caption tool, or use our Stories tool to create a script that can exported as a captions file.

Add captions to video for free with a captions file

Create captions for free

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Captions: Frequently asked questions

What is a caption?

A video caption is a text version of the audio that displays on the screen to help viewers understand the content, regardless of whether they can hear it or not. Captions display the spoken dialog as well as notes on other audio in the video, such as music, sound effects, background noise, and more.

Captions are especially important to audience members who are hearing impaired, deaf, or are watching the video without the audio turned on. Captions may be required for the video by law in some cases due to accessibility regulations. It’s still best to use captions for all videos to improve accessibility for viewers.
What is closed captioning?

There are two main types of captions, closed captions and open captions, which refer to the method the captions are added to the video. Closed captions are the more popular method and are added to the video using an external captions file, such as a .srt or .sbv file, along with the video file. Closed captions can be turned off or on by the viewer. Open captions are hard coded to the video file itself and are always displayed on the screen.
How to add captions to videos?
You can add captions to videos in four ways using ScreenPal’s screen recorder, video editor, or video hosting platform. If you are looking to add multiple captions files to a video, you can easily upload many captions files and select the language(s) in our video hosting platform.
1. Upload a file – supported in the screen recorder, video editor, and video hosting platform for free and paid plans.
2. Speech-To-Text auto captions – supported in the screen recorder and video editor for paid plans.
3. Interactive captions editor (blank captions) – supported in the screen recorder and video editor for paid plans.
4. Stories scripts – supported in the screen recorder and video editor for paid plans.
5. Transcribe video to text – supported in the screen recorder and video editor for paid plans.

What is Speech-to-Text auto captioning?

Speech-to-Text auto caption software, which is included in ScreenPal paid plans, automatically identifies any spoken dialog in your video using AI (artificial intelligence) programs and transcribes it into text. You can then review and edit the auto-generated captions in our interactive captions editor, which will be displayed on the video for viewers to read when it is saved.
What are video accessibility laws?

Captions are especially important to audience members who are hearing impaired, deaf, or are watching the video without the audio turned on. Captions may even be required for videos by law in some cases due to accessibility regulations, including Title II and III of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. For example, captions are required for videos created by nearly every public entity, including government offices, hotels, religious organizations, and schools.

If you’re creating online videos, you may need to check to see if you’re complying with US accessibility laws. It’s still best to use captions for all videos to improve accessibility for viewers.
What is the difference between captions and subtitles?

Captions and subtitles both display video audio information using text on the screen, but they are designed for different purposes. Captions are intended to help audiences hard of hearing better understand the audio content of the video. Subtitles are intended to help audiences who don’t understand the language being spoken by displaying the dialog text in their language.