Automatic subtitles
Automatic subtitles for videos
XCaptions creates automatic subtitles for short videos in your browser. It detects the spoken language and returns word-timed captions for English, Hindi, Arabic and many other languages. You can edit every line, translate captions, and export SRT, VTT, plain text or a video with burned-in captions.
How do I make automatic subtitles for a video?
Load a video
Longer videos are automatically shortened to the first 10 minutes. You can choose another part of the original; processing stays on your device.
Generate the captions
Only the extracted audio is sent for speech recognition, which returns word-timed text.
Review and edit
Correct names and numbers, split or merge lines, and choose a caption style and aspect ratio.
Export
Download SRT, VTT or TXT, or export the video with captions burned in at up to 1080p.
Which languages does it handle?
English, Hindi, Arabic and Urdu are the languages most people ask about, and they all work. The tool auto-detects the spoken language, so mixed-language clips can be less predictable. For translation you can choose English, Urdu (Urdu script), Roman Urdu, Hindi (Devanagari), Roman Hindi or Arabic. If you mainly need Urdu, see the Urdu subtitle generator page.
What formats and resolutions can I export?
Text exports are SRT, VTT and TXT (as paragraphs or with timestamps). You can also export the extracted audio, or a captioned video at 480p, 720p, 1080p or the original size. Subtitle files apply your trim by default and start at zero; uncheck the trim option to export every caption.
How accurate are automatic subtitles?
Speech recognition is usually good on clear speech and weaker on accents, names, crosstalk, music and background noise. Translation adds its own small errors. Treat the result as a strong first draft: read every line before you publish. The editor is built for exactly that, with word-level timing and quick split and merge tools.
Automatic subtitle questions
Which languages can it transcribe automatically?
The speech-to-text step detects the spoken language automatically and supports many languages, including English, Hindi, Arabic and Urdu. You do not pick the language first; the tool detects it from the audio.
Are the subtitles word-timed?
Yes. Captions come back with per-word timings, so you can retime, split and merge lines and change how many words appear at once without losing sync.
Can I turn the subtitles into another language?
Yes. After generating captions you can translate them into English, Urdu, Roman Urdu, Hindi, Roman Hindi or Arabic, and switch between the original and the translation at any time.
What file types can I open?
Common video files such as MP4, MOV, MKV and WebM work. Videos longer than 10 minutes are automatically shortened to the first 10 minutes, and you can choose another part. For subtitles, the selected part should have an audio track.
Make your first automatic subtitles
Open the editor with a short clip and export captions in minutes.