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How to add captions to podcast clips automatically
Most people watch with the sound off, so a clip without captions is a clip nobody hears. Here's how to caption every clip automatically — and on your brand.
Captions aren't optional anymore
Most social video gets watched on mute. A clip without captions is a clip the feed scrolls right past. So captions aren't a nice extra — they're the difference between a clip that works and one that doesn't.
The trouble is that captioning by hand is slow, and the automatic kind is usually wrong in ways that make you look careless.
Why auto-captions usually disappoint
Raw auto-transcription gets names, brands, and industry words wrong, drops punctuation, and arrives in a default font that screams template. You end up correcting typos line by line and restyling every clip to look like yours.
That cleanup is the part nobody warns you about. It can take longer than cutting the clip in the first place.
The automatic-and-correct path
Drop your recording into Castpilot and captions are part of the finished output, not a separate step. Each clip comes back captioned, styled to your brand, and timed to the words — no font-picking, no restyling.
Because it reads the whole episode in context, it gets the words right more often, and your fonts and colors are already applied.
- Captions burned in and styled to your brand kit, not a default look
- Your colors and font applied to every clip automatically
- Consistent styling across the whole set, so the feed looks like one brand
- Nothing to type and no transcript to clean up first
Fix a word if you want to
If a name still needs a tweak, the Adjust view lets you correct it in plain text, and the caption updates. Most clips don't need it — but it's there when a clip really matters.
And nothing is permanently baked into your source footage. Captions live as a sidecar and on the export, so your original clip stays clean if you ever want to change the style later.
See it on a real clip
Start a free trial, drop in your last episode, and look at the captioned clips it returns. You'll know in a few minutes whether you ever need to hand-type a caption again.