Best Closed Captioning Software with a Free Trial

Compare the Top Closed Captioning Software with a Free Trial as of April 2026

What is Closed Captioning Software with a Free Trial?

Closed captioning software enables users to add closed captions and text that appears on the screen of a video, movie, or presentation that syncs with the spoken word audio of the video being played. Compare and read user reviews of the best Closed Captioning software with a Free Trial currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text
    Google Cloud Speech-to-Text is an invaluable tool for closed captioning services, as it allows for the accurate conversion of spoken language into written text in real-time. By processing audio and converting it into captions for video content, it makes media accessible to a wider audience, including those with hearing impairments. The service’s ability to recognize multiple languages and various accents ensures that captions are accurate, even in diverse linguistic contexts. Moreover, it can distinguish between multiple speakers, which enhances the quality of captions for interviews, discussions, and presentations. New customers can use their $300 credits to test this closed captioning functionality, providing an easy way to integrate accessibility features into their video content.
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    Starting Price: Free ($300 in free credits)
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    Speechmatics

    Speechmatics

    Speechmatics

    Best-in-Market Speech-to-Text & Voice AI for Enterprises. Speechmatics delivers industry-leading Speech-to-Text and Voice AI for enterprises needing unrivaled accuracy, security, and flexibility. Our enterprise-grade APIs provide real-time and batch transcription with exceptional precision—across the widest range of languages, dialects, and accents. Powered by Foundational Speech Technology, Speechmatics supports mission-critical voice applications in media, contact centers, finance, healthcare, and more. With on-prem, cloud, and hybrid deployment, businesses maintain full control over data security while unlocking voice insights. Trusted by global leaders, Speechmatics is the top choice for best-in-class transcription and voice intelligence. 🔹 Unmatched Accuracy – Superior transcription across languages & accents 🔹 Flexible Deployment – Cloud, on-prem, and hybrid 🔹 Enterprise-Grade Security – Full data control 🔹 Real-Time & Batch Processing – Scalable transcription
    Starting Price: $0 per month
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    EoleCC

    EoleCC

    Videomenthe

    EoleCC is a collaborative web-based subtitling solution that combines automated tools and human review for a fast and professional result. How does it work? 🔼 Upload your video or audio (podcast for example) 💬 Automatic transcription and translation by artificial intelligence in 120 languages. There is a large choice of artificial intelligence tools to translate ! There is even a monitoring to see the details of each step of the workflow. 👥 Collaborative editing & validation, with your team (manager, users and reviewer roles) by yourself or by our translators. 🎞 Subtitle embedding: subtitles are automatically embedded in the video, according to the selected graphic charter. You can create your own subtitle style by customizing it ▶ Share the video and subtitle file (.srt): upload, post on Twitter, YouTube or Dropbox. Discover the EoleCC lite version, a 30 min pack at 19€HT (per month without commitment) for a choice of 5 languages and a verification by you.
    Starting Price: €19/month/user
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    Clevercast

    Clevercast

    Clevercast

    Clevercast lets you deliver live streams with multiple audio languages and closed captions, using the latest cloud-based technologies. Viewers, anywhere in the world, can watch the stream and select their preferred language in our multilingual video player. Our platform and embeddable player are an all-in solution for multilingual live streaming to an unlimited number of worldwide viewers. Live streams are delivered through the Akamai CDN using adaptive bitrate streaming. This way, speed, reliability and scalability are guaranteed. In addition, conference or meeting participants can receive translations in real time.
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    Maestra

    Maestra

    Maestra.ai

    Automatic Transcripts, Subtitles and Voiceovers. In just minutes. Highly accurate speech to text software with a built in advanced text editor. Translate in English, French, Spanish, German and 80+ languages. Save time and money with Maestra’s automatic audio to text transcription software. Transcribe audio files to text automatically within seconds. No credit card required for the first 15 minutes. Creating subtitles for video with online automatic subtitling software can save you a considerable amount of time. You'll be able to auto generate subtitles for videos in just a few minutes. You can also translate your subtitles automatically to 80+ languages. With Maestra video dubber you can automatically voiceover your videos aloud to foreign languages using artificial intelligence and computer generated voices.
    Starting Price: $6/hour
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    Transkriptor

    Transkriptor

    Transkriptor

    Automatically transcribe audio, and turn your audio or video to text. Upload your file and convert your audio to text with Transkriptor. Transkriptor’s powerful artificial intelligence generates online transcriptions within few minutes. Transkriptor is used by many professionals or students. Transkriptor is the best assistant for interview transcription, lecture transcription and video transcription. Transkriptor creates editable TXT, word or SRT files. You can download your transcriptions within seconds or you can use Transkriptor’s online editor for easy and quick editing. Sign up today and be more productive in school, work, and life. Even though Transkriptor is one of the most powerful artificial intelligence solutions, it is extremely easy to use. Transkriptor is an online speech-to-text converter and no installation required. Simply upload your file and start.
    Starting Price: $9.99 per month
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    Videolinq

    Videolinq

    Videolinq

    Videolinq helps reduce time and cost when creating professional high-quality live broadcasts for online distribution. Services include closed captioning creation, no-code player design, stream monetization, and a workspace for teams to create live streams, engage viewers, and grow audiences on multiple social media platforms.
    Starting Price: $49 per month
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    Temi

    Temi

    Temi

    Upload any audio or video file. We accept all file types. Review your transcript with timestamps and speakers. Save & export your transcript as MS Word, PDF, SRT, VTT and more. Transcript quality depends on audio quality. Record clear audio to get accurate transcripts. Temi's free transcription editor lets you edit your transcripts online in minutes. Built by our machine learning and speech recognition experts. Quickly clean-up the provided transcript. Adjust the playback speed and skip around easily. Temi knows the timing of every word. Add any timestamps. We mark the change of every speaker and label them. Download your transcript into text (MS Word, PDF) or closed caption files (SRT, VTT).
    Starting Price: $0.25 per audio minute
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    Ava

    Ava

    Ava

    Empowering deaf & hard-of-hearing people and inclusive organizations with the best live captioning solution for any situation. In just one click, display instant captions for your conference calls, no matter what tool you use. For near-perfect accuracy, add a professional scribe for real-time corrections. Ava Closed Captions, for Mac & Windows, will always display captions on top of the video call or the shared screen or presentation, so you can follow comfortably. We work with employers, teachers, event organizers, and other accessibility specialists looking to fully include their deaf & hard-of-hearing members. Ava empowers you with a whole new level of autonomy, for many situations in your day-to-day life. Communications deserve to be accessible. Help us share Ava with your friends, family, and coworkers. Ava’s mission is to empower 450M deaf & hard-of-hearing people to a totally accessible world.
    Starting Price: $119 per month
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    CaptionHub

    CaptionHub

    Neon Creative Technology

    The combination of integrated AI text-to-speech and our own Natural Captions engine gives you perfectly formatted captions, in much the same way as a skilled human subtitler would – but it takes seconds, not days. Our automated transcription delivers text that’s almost perfect. All that’s left for you to do is finesse it from your browser, using smart notifications and validated workflows to collaborate seamlessly with your team and / or agencies when you need to. Perfect subtitles, faster. Machine translation can translate subtitles in 103 languages, in one simple step. Then assign linguists to finesse the translations, and split up videos for shared workloads. Don’t have your own linguists? We can hook you up with our translation partners. No more manual downloading and uploading of videos and subtitle files. Publish your subtitles from CaptionHub with a single click, using our highly secure video platform integrations.
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    Azure Video Indexer
    Azure Video Indexer is a video analytics service that uses AI to extract actionable insights from stored videos. Enhance ad insertion, digital asset management, and media libraries by analyzing audio and video content—no machine learning expertise necessary. Enhance your search experiences by using video indexing within the metadata to automatically extract data from your content. Multichannel analysis provides information to perform a more effective search across your media archive and within each file. Search by person, project, visual text, spoken word, entity, topic, and more. Apply the extracted metadata to improve the user experience. Use speech transcription and translation to easily add closed captioning in multiple languages. Fine-tune recommendation algorithms based on objects and people that appear in a video, and automatically create clips from sections featuring a particular person.
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    SyncWords

    SyncWords

    SyncWords

    SyncWords is at the forefront of captioning and subtitling automation for both real-time and pre-recorded content. We bring together experts from the broadcast, machine learning, and web design fields to create truly unique and innovative products. We use advanced artificial intelligence and automation, developed in-house, in all aspects of the captioning process. Live Subtitles for Meetings - Deliver real-time captions to online meeting and streaming services. Live Captions for Event Producers - Deliver real-time captions to live events. Live Subtitles for OTT & Broadcast - Deliver subtitled programs in 100+ languages around the world. Caption Media - Create high-quality captions quickly and affordably using industry-leading AI. Transcribe Media - Create captions without a transcript. Human & ASR options available. Translation & Subtitles. Translate captions & create subtitles in 100+ languages.
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    Livecast Media

    Livecast Media

    Livecast Media

    Design your event page, embed your player, choose a registration workflow. We provide the platform, you focus on your live content. Your event page is instantly created for you once you add a new event. This is where your viewers will access to attend your live stream. You can customize this page and even embed it into your organization's website for a more private look and feel. It supports videos from many CDNs including Vimeo and DaCast. Take advantage of our management dashboard which gives you total control of your event. Gone are the days when you had to carry multiple encoders to the field for multilingual broadcasts. Now you can easily generate translated versions of your live streams. Our viewer questions feature will ease your life with various scenarios it supports.
    Starting Price: $149 one-time payment
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    VideoTranslator

    VideoTranslator

    VideoTranslator

    We look at the number of languages which you can use with your content. Remember, each languages is potentially a new market, and care needs to be taken to properly target your preferred leads. There are two kinds of transcription, listed below. In both cases, speech is involved, hence these are referred to as transcription AI’s. If you’re planning to post your video to social media, it’s important to make sure your video meets social channel specific formatting requirements. Not doing this can affect your users experience, from looking distorted, to unreadable captioning, to simply not playing, the below simple tips and tricks will make your content convert faster!
    Starting Price: $10 per 1,000 credits
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    AutoCaption

    AutoCaption

    AutoCaption

    AutoCaption is an AI caption/subtitle generator that offers automatic transcription and animated emojis for videos on Instagram, TikTok YouTube, etc... It saves users hours of editing time by using artificial intelligence technology. Users can generate subtitles with ease and fully customize them by editing subtitles, adding animations, fonts, colors and more. AutoCaption lets you automatically add emojis with a single click, and customize their size, position and animations. The tool supports over 56 languages, giving users a wide range of options for creating subtitles. It offers ready-to-use templates, as well as the option of creating custom templates to save individual settings. AutoCaption is optimized for vertical content, with a resolution of 1080x1920 (FULL HD) and a frame rate of 60 FPS.
    Starting Price: $15/month
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    spotl

    spotl

    spotl

    Whatever the format of your video, your subtitles are optimally placed on the screen, without any intervention required from you. The subtitles generated by spotl are optimized to comply with the constraints of professional subtitling. We also provides you with all the tools you need to work as a team and to verify and validate your content. With its artificial intelligence, SPOTL automatically generates your multilingual subtitles in record time and at a very attractive price. SPOTL's exclusive innovation, post-editing, allows you to have your content corrected by certified professionals. With spotl, your subtitles automatically adapt to the format of your video and are customizable.
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    CapMate

    CapMate

    Venera Technologies

    CapMate – Captions QC & Correction platform automatically identifies issues in Captions/Subtitles and allows users to perform auto correction and export the rectified captions. CapMate ensure that your captions or subtitles are compliant with corresponding specifications such as SCC, IMSC, TTML etc. and validates captions/subtitles for major content delivery platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, HBO and many others. It helps you identify the sync issues and captions/burnt-in text overlap with options for Auto/Manual Correction. It allows you to quickly spot the abusive/curse words in the Captions/Subtitles and replace them with characters of your choice. CapMate comes equipped with a rich browser-based review and correction system. Captioning aspects such as Duration, Characters per line, Words per minute, Successive captions overlap, and many more can be validated and rectified with CapMate in time & cost efficient manner.
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