Subtitles for your video, without hours of typing
Typing subtitles by hand means replaying every sentence and timing every line. Upload the recording instead: IronMemo writes down the speech with timecodes and speaker names and gives you the subtitle file.
No credit card. Your video stays untouched: subtitles come as a separate file.
Where the time goes
The recording is done. Getting subtitles for it is the slow part.
Hours of typing
Replay a phrase, type it, set its start and end time, repeat. A one-hour webinar is hundreds of lines, and people who do it by hand count several hours of work for every hour of speech.
Not only English
Recordings in other languages, or with speakers who switch languages, trip up many caption tools. IronMemo detects the language by itself - 30+ languages - also when it changes mid-recording.
Who is speaking?
In an interview, a panel or a webinar Q&A, plain subtitles don't show who said what. IronMemo can start every subtitle with the speaker's name.
From recording to subtitle file
Upload the recording
Any video or audio file: a webinar, a lecture, an interview, a podcast or a meeting.
IronMemo writes it down
The speech becomes text with a start and end time for every phrase, and the speakers are told apart.
Download the subtitles
In the recording's Export menu, pick SRT, VTT, SBV or TTML, with or without speaker names.
Four subtitle formats from one upload
Choose the one your player, platform or video editor asks for.
SubRip
The classic subtitle file: numbered subtitles with start and end times, plain text you can open in any editor.
WebVTT
The subtitle format of web video players, for your website or course pages.
SubViewer
A simple subtitle format that YouTube reads.
Timed Text Markup Language
An XML subtitle format for platforms and tools that ask for it.
YouTube accepts all four as subtitle files. YouTube Help: supported files
Speaker names, if you want them
Turn the option on and every subtitle starts with who is talking. Leave it off for clean text.
The transcript as well
The same upload also exports the full transcript as TXT, DOCX, PDF, Markdown, HTML, CSV or JSON, and IronMemo writes a summary of the recording.
For recordings where people talk
Webinars and online events
Publish the recording with subtitles on YouTube or your website.
Lectures and courses
Subtitles for every lesson, for students who watch without sound.
Interviews and podcasts
Speaker names in each subtitle show who asked and who answered.
Meetings and trainings
Share a recorded all-hands or training with subtitles for colleagues who watch without sound.
What IronMemo does and doesn't do
IronMemo makes subtitle files from your recording. So you know what to expect:
Not available
Burned-in subtitles
IronMemo doesn't change your video. You get a separate file to upload with it or to open in a video editor.
Links instead of files
Pasting a YouTube or other video link isn't supported. Upload the file itself.
Editing in the app
To fix a word, open the subtitle file in any text or subtitle editor.
Next for subtitles
In developmentShort, easy-to-read lines
Today each subtitle is a whole phrase or sentence, so a long sentence stays on screen as one subtitle. A separate mode for video subtitles will split them into two lines of up to 42 characters and up to 7 seconds each.
Translated subtitles
Subtitles in another language with the original timing kept. Today the file comes in the language that was spoken.
No closing credit on paid plans
Today SRT and SBV files end with a short line, Made with IronMemo, after your last subtitle. Paid plans will export without it.
Questions about subtitles
You can try IronMemo without signing up. Create an account and you get 150 credits - about 2.5 hours of recordings - with no credit card. Paid plans start at $9 a month.
Subtitles as SRT, VTT, SBV or TTML. The same recording also exports as a transcript in TXT, DOCX, PDF, Markdown, HTML, CSV or JSON.
No. IronMemo doesn't change your video. You get a subtitle file to upload next to the video on YouTube or your website, or to import into a video editor.
Not today. Upload the video or audio file itself.
Speech in 30+ languages. IronMemo detects the language by itself, also when speakers switch languages in one recording. Subtitles come in the language that was spoken: translation is in development.
Not on your video: IronMemo doesn't touch it. SRT and SBV files end with one extra short subtitle after your last line, Made with IronMemo and ironmemo.com. Delete it in any text editor if you don't need it. In VTT and TTML the same note is hidden from viewers. Paid plans without this line are in development.
Each subtitle is one phrase or sentence, timed to when it was said, so a long sentence stays on screen as one subtitle. Splitting into short lines (two lines of up to 42 characters, up to 7 seconds) is in development.
Yes, in the file. SRT, VTT and SBV are plain text that any text editor or subtitle editor opens. Editing inside IronMemo isn't available.
Get subtitles for your next recording
Upload a video or audio file and download SRT, VTT, SBV or TTML.
No credit card - 30+ languages - speaker names in the file