Auto captions for YouTube Shorts

Shorts are watched fast. Big, high-contrast captions help viewers follow along and stay to the end.

Drop a video here or click to upload

MP4, MOV, WEBM or audio · up to 10 min free · no watermark

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How it works

YouTube's automatic captions are hidden by default on Shorts. Burned-in captions are always visible.

For regular YouTube videos, download an SRT file and upload it in YouTube Studio so viewers can turn captions on or off.

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Uploaded SRT captions give YouTube the full text of your video, which helps it understand what the video is about.