Auto captions vs an SRT you wrote
ASR is a draft. A human or edited SRT is the names, numbers and SKUs. Short-form still burns that file in; the sidecar is not the Reel.
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ASR is a draft. A human or edited SRT is the names, numbers and SKUs. Short-form still burns that file in; the sidecar is not the Reel.
Clip the insight first, then caption the short. Multi-speaker Zoom mixes need speaker IDs. ASR on the full recording is not a finished track.
If nobody said the line, it is overlay. Auto-captions transcribe speech. Do not send a mute plate to captions.
Free AI caption workflow: on-device tools and style preview first, then burn timed captions in Versely's AI caption generator.
The Versely editor agent job is transcribe-and-caption-my-video: speech in, styled timed burn-in out. Preview the style, then caption the locked cut.
Align captions to the audio, not the generated mouth. Recaption after every lipsync pass; the old track sits on the old take.
Seven failure modes: names, numbers, homophones, crosstalk, music-as-words, offset vs drift, and dumped paragraphs. How to spot each on the file.
ASR misses names, numbers and accents first. There is no honest WER to quote. Read the transcript back, then burn.
Cut the 60-minute file into 20 clips first. Caption each clip after the trim — 1× basic or 2× dynamic credits per file.
Two layers: a transcript of speech and an authored overlay. Mixing them into one track is the bug.
Transcribe is not translate. Dub the audio first, then caption each language with its own 165-code pass.
Most short-form views arrive muted. Burned-in captions are the soundtrack. How to write, time and place them so the hook still lands.
Keep auto transcription, swap the default yellow bounce for a brand family so mute feeds still read you as you.
Caption AI means automatic speech-to-text plus styling for video. It is not a text-overlay CTA line and not a full subtitle localization pass.
Platform auto-captions arrive too late, in a font you do not own. Burn Versely captions in before you post: they do the hook, the silent watch, and the brand lock — and they only work if you pick one family and stop.
A short-form video format built for the search shelf, not the feed: one question, fully answered, still findable weeks after it first posted.
How Versely's auto-captions work in 2026: VEED-powered transcription, styled presets, accuracy tips, and the workflow for caption-ready short-form video.