Caption This

Add closed-captions to videos for Instagram stories

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Instagram stories now has 500M daily active users. But many viewers skip stories if they can’t turn up their phone’s volume 🔊Caption This solves this problem by creating videos with live closed-captions. Just record a video or load it from your camera roll, and Caption This will add captions that are perfectly synced to your speech. 🎉
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Rodrigo Nunes
The app works with other languages other than English? How is the proccess of adding the caption? =)
Jon Brennecke
Maker
@fnnrodrigo currently it only works with English, although I will be rolling out support for other languages in the next update!
Rodrigo Nunes
@jonbrennecke awesome! Thanks =)
Jon Brennecke
Maker
Hi Product Hunt! ✌️ I’m Jon, the creator of Caption This. Caption This is a iOS app I built while on vacation over Christmas. Caption This helps Instagram influencers boost engagement with their stories by adding closed captions to their videos. Often times, viewers skip stories if they can’t turn up their phone’s volume — if they’re in a public space or don’t have their headphones. Caption This is the solution to this problem. 🔥🔥🔥 🛠 Key Features: - Load videos from your camera roll, or shoot videos in the app - Custom styles for text: choose from a list of great fonts, and pick a custom background color (or no color at all) - Support for portrait & landscape videos Caption This is built with React Native and it's 100% open source (see the Github link in the social links section)
Valerii Kuznietsov
@jonbrennecke if ReactNative, why no Android version?
Jon Brennecke
Maker
@_dwite_ great question! It is React Native, but it's only about 2/3 Javascript. The rest is native swift and Objective C. Most of that code is for the captions and transcriptions, which depends on the native iOS speech recognition API. Android has a similar speech API, but I haven't had made a react native bridge for it yet. That's definitely in the long-term plan though!
Lachlan Kirkwood
Looks like a great way to streamline the content creation process! Would be curious to know how accurate the transcription is? Is it built on an off-the-shelf NLC model?
Jon Brennecke
Maker
@lachlankirkwood the transcript quality is great! It uses the built-in speech recognition system on iOS so the results are the same as what you get from Siri or dictation from the keyboard. Also, if there are errors in the transcription you have a chance to edit them before saving your captions.
Lachlan Kirkwood
@jonbrennecke Sounds great!
braxton
Foreign Ipsum
Nice work, Jon! I love how this can help watchers experience stores better. This is a great idea & I hope it is used in more scenarios than just this.
Jon Brennecke
Maker
@3raxton Thanks for the support! I launched this app with Instagram in mind, but I've already seen several people using it on LinkedIn, and a few on twitter. 🤷‍♂️From their feedback, I added support for landscape videos. There's a couple other features in the works that will make Caption This an even better tool for people on all platforms!
Krishna De
Nice to see this here @jonbrennecke I see you from your notes that you added landscape - portrait would be good too with the increase in vertical video. I would love to see an Android version and also the option to let people test the app before they invest so that they can see how it works. It seems that it auto captions videos that you can edit - is that correct? What about video where there is no audio, can you also add a voiceover or manually add captions to pre-recorded content? Exporting the SRT file of captions would be helpful too for accompanying the post. I have added you to my curations - looking forward to seeing how you further develop the app.
Jon Brennecke
Maker
@krishnade Thanks Krishna! Wow these are all great ideas. Thanks for the feedback! Portrait and landscape are both supported right now. In another update coming soon I'll be adding support for cropping to other ratios (like 5x4, 4x3 and square). It doesn't currently support videos with no audio. However I've had a few people request that feature, so I will definitely be looking into adding that!
Krishna De
@jonbrennecke You are very welcome. BTW if you are looking for beta testers please do count me in as I'd love to take a look at the app and provide input as I teach mobile marketing and content creation to media, marketing and comms professionals and would like to evaluate it as a resource to be included in my workshop materials.
Ivan Bilak
Great idea! I suppose it's so useful for Instagram bloggers as me 😉
Jon Brennecke
Maker
@ivan_bilak1 Thanks for your support! Definitely trying to make this tool as useful as possible for people just like you.
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