Automated Subtitling Made Easy with AI Subtitle Generator

Muvi has recently introduced the world’s first streaming-focused AI engine named Alie. Built on leading LLMs with streaming-specific AI infrastructure, Alie is purposefully designed to automate streaming workflows and operations.

Leveraging Alie’s smart Speech-to-Text capabilities, Muvi has launched an AI Subtitle Generator that auto-generates video subtitles and syncs them with the playback in real-time. This AI Subtitling 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 importance of video subtitles and the benefits of using the AI Subtitle Generator compared to manual transcriptions. We will also guide you on how to use the AI Subtitling feature for generating subtitles instantly.

Why Are Video Subtitles Important?

Subtitles 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, e-learning, employee training, or OTT streaming, enabling subtitles in videos can greatly improve the overall user experience and content understanding. Here are the key benefits of adding subtitles to videos.

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

• Makes videos accessible for all: Adding subtitles 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 subtitles 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
  

Drawbacks of Manual Transcription & Subtitling

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 subtitling process may sound fascinating and fully controlled, but there are big drawbacks.

• Requires extensive time & resources: Manual transcription and subtitling 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 subtitles.

• 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 Subtitles.

How AI Subtitle Generator Works?

Powered by Alie, AI Subtitle Generator is built to solve the biggest pain points in video subtitling—speed, accuracy, cost, and multilingual support. The tool is already integrated into the video streaming platform and uses the advanced AI-powered speech-to-text technology to create accurate subtitles for videos. 

 Let’s have a look at how the AI Subtitle Generator instantly generates video subtitles.

•  Automatically Detects & Transcribes Speech:

AI Subtitle Generator recognizes the speech in the video and generates subtitles in the primary language instantly. The entire video subtitling process is automated and hence eliminates the need for manual transcription, saving you both time and resources. 

• Substitutes Multi-language Audio Dubbing:

AI Subtitling cuts down the hefty dubbing expenses. You no longer need to opt for multi-language dubbing to broaden your audience reach. The text-based subtitles generated by the AI Subtitle Generator would do the work at 90% less cost & time.

• Generates High-Speed and Accurate Subtitles:

Leveraging the power of Alie, the AI Subtitle Generator instantly generates subtitles with unmatched accuracy – eliminating all the scopes for typos & errors. No more need to upload subtitle files manually.

• Automatically Syncs Subtitles for Multi-Format Videos:

The AI Subtitle Generator supports multiple video formats like MP4, MOV, WMV, MKV, and more. It not only recognizes speech and generates subtitles but also syncs the subtitles with the video’s runtime automatically. No manual QA or transcriber’s intervention required.

• Generates Subtitles in Multiple Languages

You can generate AI Subtitles for your videos in over 31 languages, including native languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Hindi. The AI Subtitle Generator is capable of recognizing speech in its original video language and generating subtitles automatically in the same language.

Backed by state-of-the-art AI-powered speech-to-text technology, the AI Subtitle Generator automatically transcribes and time-syncs subtitles 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 and global reach without the traditional headaches of manual transcription.

How To Generate AI Subtitles With Muvi in Just 5 Steps

Step 1: Sign up with Muvi

To get started with AI Subtitling, first, you need to register and sign up. Select a Muvi product as per your video platform needs – i.e., On-Demand Streaming, or Video Hosting & Management, and buy a subscription. Set up your video platform with your preferred video template and customize your brand identity with your 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 Subtitles with Alie

Go to the Asset Library, select the video for which you want to add subtitles. Click on “Manage Subtitle” and generate the AI Subtitles. You can check the status and language of your subtitles in the dashboard itself.

Step 4: Enable Auto-Subtitles 

To showcase subtitles automatically during video playback, you need to enable the “Auto-Subtitles” feature in the player. Go to Player settings – Add Encoding Profile – Click on Auto Subtitles.

Step 5: Preview Video Playback

It is essential to ensure visuals and text-based subtitles 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. 

Alie-powered AI Subtitle Generator is specifically designed to automate the subtitling process. Leveraging the AI tool, you can not only create multi-language subtitles instantly but also save 90% of your subtitling costs. 

AI Subtitling is simply effortless with Muvi – No manual transcriptions & QA required.

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