Auto Captions Made Easy with Muvi’s AI-Powered Video Caption Generator

Muvi has recently come up with an auto caption generator that instantly generates video captions and automatically syncs them with the playback. This auto captioning feature makes videos more accessible to a wider audience, eliminating the need for manual interventions and high costs .

In this blog, we will showcase the major benefits of using the AI-powered video caption generator compared to manual transcriptions. We will also discuss the step-by-step process how to enable the AI-powered video caption generator using Muvi’s no-code CMS.

Let’s get started with an understanding of why captioning is important for videos.

Why Are Captions Important?

Captions are not an optional add-on anymore, they are a critical component of any modern video strategy. Whether you’re leveraging videos for marketing, sales, internal communications, elearning, employee training or OTT streaming, enabling closed captions in videos can greatly improve the overall user-experience and content understanding. Here are the key benefits of adding captions to videos.

• Breaks language barrier: Stitching multi-language captions into videos ensures a broader global reach, breaking the geographical and linguistic barriers.

• Makes videos accessible for all: Adding captions makes videos accessible to all, including individuals with hearing impairments or those who prefer watching videos on mute, particularly social feed videos

• Improves video engagement and retention: Videos with captioning are easier to comprehend and understand. The combination of audio and textual elements helps users retain the information in the video, encouraging them to watch it till the end

• Increases Online Discoverability: Adding captions makes videos more searchable and discoverable. Search bots index videos with captions and rank them higher on SERPs and video platforms, making it easier for viewers to find them online

Drawbacks of Manual Transcription & Captioning

In manual transcription, a transcriber listens to an audio file or video, and manually types the video language and speech into a document. This kind of traditional captioning process may sound fascinating and fully-controlled, but there are big drawbacks.

• Requires extensive time & resources: Manual transcription and captioning often takes 3 – 5x the video’s runtime and costs hundreds of dollars per hour of footage

• Involves Human errors & Inconsistency: Transcribers, despite being experienced, struggle with jargons, accent, and background noise, leading to typos and misalignment in the captions.

• Finding expert linguists is hard: Finding trained resources for language translation & subtitling is not only challenging but expensive too.

Eliminating these major drawbacks of manual transcription, enterprises or production houses with big video libraries are now shifting towards AI auto captioning services.

How Muvi’s AI-Powered Video Caption Generator Helps With Captioning?

Muvi’s AI Caption Generator is built to solve the biggest pain points in video subtitling—speed, accuracy, cost, and multilingual support. The tool is already integrated in the video streaming platform and uses the advanced AI-powered speech-to-text technology to create accurate captions for videos.

•  Automatically Detects & Transcribes Speech:

Muvi’s video caption generator recognizes the speech in the video and creates caption in real-time. The entire video captioning process is automated and hence eliminates the need for manual transcription, saving you both time and resources. 

• Substitutes Multi-language Audio Dubbing:

AI Auto captioning by Muvi cuts the dubbing & subtitling expenses by upto 90%. You no longer need to opt for multi language dubbing to broaden your audience reach. The text-based captions generated by AI caption generator would do the work at 90% less cost & time.

• Generates High-Speed and Accurate Captions:

Leveraging the power of AI, Muvi’s video caption generator instantly generates captions with unmatched accuracy – eliminating all the scopes for typos & errors. No more need to upload subtitle files manually. Just enable Auto-captions while uploading videos into your library and sit back, the AI Caption generator will do the rest work for you.

• Automatically Syncs captions for Multi-Format Videos:

Muvi’s AI-powered video caption generator supports multiple video formats like MP4, MOV, WMV, MKV, and more. It not only recognizes speech and generates captions but also syncs the captions with the video’s run-time automatically. No manual QA or transcriber’s intervention required.

• Generates Captions in Multiple Languages

With Muvi, you can generate auto captions for your videos in over 31 languages, including native langues like Spanish, Mandarin, and Hindi. The AI caption generator is capable of recognizing speech in its original video language and generate captions automatically in the same language.

Backed by state-of-the-art AI-powered speech-to-text technology, Muvi’s Video caption generator automatically transcribes and time-syncs captions in 31 languages, slashing costs by up to 90% and turnaround from days to mere minutes. Whether you’re an educator, marketer, media producer, or corporate trainer, Muvi empowers you to boost engagement, SEO, and global reach without the traditional headaches of manual transcription.

How To Auto Generate Video Captions With Muvi in Just 5 Steps

Step 1: Sign up with Muvi

To get started with Muvi’s AI-powered video caption generator, first you need to register and sign up. Select a Muvi product as per your video platform needs – On-demand streaming, Live streaming, Video Hosting & Management, Online TV, FAST Channels, etc., and buy a subscription. Setup your video platform with preferred video template and customize your brand identity with logo and colour theme.

Click here to sign up with Muvi

Step 2: Upload Your Videos

Go to the content library in the CMS and start uploading your videos. Muvi supports bulk uploading of videos. So, if you have a large collection of videos, you can easily upload them in one go. Add appropriate metadata and create video categories, if needed. Once the uploading is complete, the videos are automatically subjected to encoding and are available for publishing live.

Step 3: Generate Captions with AI

Go to the Asset Library, select the video for which you want to add captions. Click on “Manage Subtitle” and generate the auto captions. This activates the AI-powered video caption generator, and the auto captioning process gets initiated. You can check the status and language of your captions in the dashboard itself.

Step 4: Enable Auto-Captions 

To showcase captions automatically during video playback, you need to enable the “Auto-Captions” feature in the player. Go to Player settings – Add Encoding Profile – Click on Auto Captions. Now your videos will comes with auto-captions generated by the AI-powered video caption generator.

Step 5: Preview Video Playback

It is essential to ensure visuals and text-based captions go in flow with each other. Hence, before making the videos live for end-users, preview the video playback and check if everything is in sync or not. 

Muvi’s Auto captioning tool is the best AI caption generator for videos. Leveraging the AI technology, you can not only create multi-language captions instantly buit also save almost 90% of your subtitling costs. 

Auto-captioning is simply effortless with Muvi – No manual transcriptions & QA required.

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