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Last active March 10, 2025 15:43
Automatic Captioning Tools

Retail option (many others):

Free (and paid option) transcription editor:

Example using IBM Watson (or "Gentle") to auto-transcribe a video's audio stream to more easily transcribe (Option 2):

Free in-development (used in production) auto-transcribe tool (online version uses IBM Watson) autoEdit 2:

Speech-to-text engines:

Open Source Command Line tool for automatic video captioning:

HTML5 Polyfill to embed captions for your own videos:

HTML5 Video Player built with a11y in mind (originally by University of Washington):

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Much of this list has been superceded by AI solutions.

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