Generate Subtitles and Captions for Any Video

Captions should not become a second production cycle. Upload a video, describe the style, and Chat Octopus generates accurate, timed subtitles automatically: auto captions timed to the word rather than to the line, so they keep pace with the speaker.

The transcript is just the start. Tell Chat Octopus how you want the subtitles to look: font, color, size, position, background, animation. "Bold white text with a black outline at the bottom." "Centered yellow captions that pop word by word." "Minimal lowercase, sitting high enough to clear the app's own buttons." Describe the style and Chat Octopus applies it. Captions sit top, centre or bottom of the frame and the text is centred within them, so placement is a band rather than a corner.

Whichever kind of captions the job calls for, it comes from the same request. Burned-in captions for feeds that autoplay on mute. A closed caption file for platforms where viewers toggle them on and off. Say which one you need, or ask for both the captioned video and the caption file in one go, timed from the same pass.

Need corrections? Just say "fix the timing on the third subtitle" or "change 'their' to 'there' at 2:14." No timeline scrubbing; the video is rebuilt around the one line you flagged, which costs machine time rather than yours. Each edit happens in the conversation and applies to the video.

Chat Octopus handles multiple languages. Generate subtitles in the spoken language, then ask for a translation. "Now create Spanish subtitles from the English ones." Both versions stay in the thread for future edits.

YouTubers run it on uploads, course creators on lecture videos, social media managers on clips that autoplay on mute. The styling is yours to describe, and the whole process takes minutes.