Captions and subtitles make your videos accessible to a wider audience. In this easy, 4-step guide, we�ll show you how to quickly create SRT captions/subtitles for your video using artificial intelligence. Let's do this!
Go to A.I. transcription site, Simon Says, and upload your video file to a new project via the website or one of the extensions for video editing applications. Select the original language of your video dialogue and click Transcribe.
Your video transcribes in minutes! Next, click Export and select Visual Subtitle Editor. Here, you can adjust the maximum number of characters per line (20-70). You can choose to display subtitles in one or two lines per subtitle card and toggle all uppercase display (standard for CEA 608). The visual subtitle editor lets you preview how subtitles will appear on screen and make any edits and adjust line breaks as needed. The editor keeps the video/audio and transcript synchronized and Simon Says automatically reads start timecode and framerate. If you need to edit it, click the clock icon on the toolbar on the transcript page.
If you need captions in other languages, go to the original paragraphed transcript and click on the Translation button on the export screen. Choose the languages you want to translate the video into. Simon Says supports 100+ languages.
Click the export icon at the top right of the transcript and then choose the Subtitles icon and select SRT. You can also select the Gapless option which means subtitles will created where there is no gap between one subtitle and the next when a gap is less than 1 second. Click the button Let's do this when you're ready. A zipped file will download. Unzip it and your SRT file will be contained within. Wooohooo! You can upload that SRT file alongside your video to social media or your video player. Happy dance time. :)
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