Closed Captioning VS Subtitles: Differences & When to Use Them
Understand what differentiates subtitles and closed captioning and how to add them to your own videos with ease.
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Use VEED’s AI to instantly generate captions and subtitles for your audio or video, and download your transcript in SRT format. VEED’s powerful AI technology can detect speech and instantly create a transcript for you. You can even translate your transcript to different languages. Or automatically translate your videos and download the translated transcription.
How to generate SRT:
Step 1
Upload your audio or video to VEED, or start recording using our webcam and audio recorder. You can also drag and drop your files into the editor.
Step 2
Under Subtitles, click ‘Auto Transcribe,’ select your preferred language, and you're done! Your transcript is generated. Edit your transcript if necessary.
Step 3
Without exiting the Subtitles page, click ‘Options’ and download your transcription in SRT format.
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Watch this to learn more about our SRT creator:
Online SRT editor and creator
VEED’s SRT creator and text editor lets you auto-generate closed captions and add subtitles straight from your browser; there is no software to install. You can access all your projects online. It’s the fastest and best subtitle tool for content creators. Make your videos accessible to all audiences on social media and video-sharing platforms.
Fast and accurate
Our ultra-fast cloud-based servers will have your audio and video files uploaded, transcribed, and converted into text files in a matter of seconds. Convert your audio to text for documentation. You no longer have to sit and listen while manually typing along to your recordings. You may have to edit a few lines, but it’s still faster than manual transcription.
Customize your subtitles to fit your brand!
VEED also lets you hard-code your SRT subtitles to your video. If you want to make any changes to your subtitles, simply click on the text and start typing. Watch edits appear on the video in real time. Add animations and highlights, such as a box highlight or a karaoke-style animation, to your subtitles! Adding these will make your videos more engaging.
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Loved by the Fortune 500
VEED has been game-changing. It's allowed us to create gorgeous content for social promotion and ad units with ease.
Max Alter
Director of Audience Development, NBCUniversal
I love using VEED. The subtitles are the most accurate I've seen on the market. It's helped take my content to the next level.
Laura Haleydt
Brand Marketing Manager, Carlsberg Importers
I used Loom to record, Rev for captions, Google for storing and Youtube to get a share link. I can now do this all in one spot with VEED.
Cedric Gustavo Ravache
Enterprise Account Executive, Cloud Software Group
VEED is my one-stop video editing shop! It's cut my editing time by around 60%, freeing me to focus on my online career coaching business.
Nadeem L
Entrepreneur and Owner, TheCareerCEO.com
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More than an SRT file creator
Our online audio and video transcription software is just one of the tools you can use within VEED’s platform. VEED is a complete video editing app that has plenty of extra features that you won’t find in other free video editors. You can also split, cut, and trim your audio files before transcribing them. If you are transcribing a video, you can burn or hard-code your subtitles to make your videos more accessible!