Feature
Automatic captions that follow the speech
Cortfy transcribes the video's audio, aligns every word to the instant it is said and burns into the clip a caption that lights up the spoken word, in the style you choose. It comes with every clip at no extra cost, and any wrong word is fixed in the editor for free.
How it works
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Transcription with per-word timing
The audio becomes text with the start and end of every word. The language is detected on its own: Portuguese, English, Spanish and whatever else the video has.
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Short phrases, two lines at most
Captions are broken into blocks that fit a phone screen: up to 34 characters per line and never more than two lines, with the font size adjusted to fit.
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The spoken word highlighted
As the person speaks, the current word changes colour or gets a box, depending on the style. It is what keeps the eye on a muted video.
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Away from the face and the buttons
On a vertical clip the caption sits in the lower third by default, clear of TikTok's buttons. With two people stacked, it moves to the seam, where it covers nobody.
What you can adjust
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7 styles
Impact (all caps, yellow word), Modern, Rounded, Clean, Box (the spoken word in a coloured box), Soft and Dim (grey sentence, spoken word in white). Every official template ships with one.
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Colour, size, outline and position
Text and highlight colour, font size, outline thickness, all caps or not, and position at the top, middle or bottom.
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Word fixes
Proper name, acronym, technical term: click the word in the editor and fix it. The clip is re-rendered at no charge. Up to 30 edits per clip.
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Captions off
You can remove captions from a whole template or from a single clip, if the video already has its own.
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SRT for use elsewhere
Besides the burned-in captions, the video page hands you the SRT and the transcript text for another editor or for YouTube.
What it costs
Nothing beyond the clip: the minutes of video analysed already include transcription and captions. Fixing words or changing the caption style on a finished clip costs nothing either. Dubbing, which rebuilds the captions in the new language, uses 60 minutes of your balance per dubbed minute.
Limits
- Captions are burned into the video: to change them later the clip is re-rendered in the editor (free); it is not a separate file you toggle in the player.
- A video with no speech, music only, comes out with no captions: there is nothing to transcribe.
- Two people talking at once become one caption; the transcript does not separate who said what.
- Biblical names, acronyms and jargon are where transcription errs most. Review before posting.
Frequently asked questions
Are automatic captions charged separately?
No. They are included in the video minutes, as are word fixes afterwards.
Which languages does it work in?
Transcription detects the audio's language automatically and works well in Portuguese, English and Spanish, among others. Captions come out in the spoken language; for another language, use dubbing.
Can I use my brand's font?
The styles ship with fonts tested for phone legibility. Your own fonts go into templates (text layers, logo); on captions, what changes is colour, size, outline, case and position.
Can I download just the captions?
Yes: on the video page, "SRT captions" and "Download text" hand you the SRT and the transcript of every clip.
Do captions cover the face?
By default they sit in the lower third; with two people stacked, they move to the seam between them. If your video needs another position, choose top or middle in the template.
See also
REC
See the captions on your own video.
60 free minutes, no card. Captions come with every clip.