Add karaoke captions to video automatically

ClipEmber burns captions into the pixels of the video itself — no SRT file to upload separately. Transcription returns word-level timestamps, which is what makes word-by-word highlighting possible; nine styles, adjustable size and position, 90+ languages.

Word-level timestamps, nine caption styles, uppercase pop or subtle sentence case — burned into the video, no SRT juggling.

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1

Upload or paste a link

The transcriber produces word-level timestamps — that's what makes karaoke highlighting possible.

2

Pick a caption style

Nine templates from BOLD POP to subtle sentence case; adjust size, position and words per line.

3

Download with captions burned in

Captions are rendered into the pixels — they show up on every platform, no separate subtitle file.

A real run

5 clips from 2:00 – 5:00 of a real video

Run on 2026-08-17 · source: Tutorial SCREENCAST-O-MATIC 2020 — Cómo grabar la pantalla by EducaTIC · Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

Scores the model gave
6867636260
Time per stage · 41 min 31 s end to end

This one is not a fair timing: we had six runs queued at once and this was last in line, so crop planning and rendering spent most of that time waiting, not working. Our quiet-queue runs on this site finish in 4 to 5 minutes.

  • Fetch source3 min
  • Transcribe1 min 26 s
  • Score moments2 min 22 s
  • Plan the crop20 min 16 s
  • Render 5 clips14 min 28 s

We ran this one in Spanish on purpose, because "multilingual" is easy to claim and easy to check. The captions came back in Spanish, and so did the clip titles the model wrote for them — "¿El límite de grabación gratuita te corta? Usa este sencillo truco." Nothing was translated into English along the way, which is the behaviour you want: captions keep the language people are actually speaking.

Request 155fbffe-890e-4137-abe2-2d237704ba0c — every number above comes from that run, not from an average.

FAQ

Which languages are supported?

90+ languages via multilingual speech recognition; captions keep the original language and casing rules you choose.

Can I move the captions?

Yes — position and size are sliders in the editor, per clip.

Karaoke or static?

Karaoke word-highlighting is the default; static-line templates are available too (Subtle, Inkbox).