Captions that keep up with your live show.
Speech becomes caption lines on your live page seconds later — for silent scrollers, noisy rooms, and accessibility everywhere you broadcast.
Seconds, not hours
Chunks of your live audio are transcribed as you speak — viewers see lines appear moments after the words.
One minute pool
Live captioning draws from your Transcribe minutes. No extra plan to buy — Free, Pro, and Ultra all work.
Viewer-controlled CC
Every viewer toggles captions on the player with a CC button, and their choice sticks on their device.
Plans for live & VOD captions
Live captions share the Transcribe minute pool — one plan covers both.
Transcribe Pro is included with Studio Pro and Max; Ultra with Studio Enterprise.
Transcribe Free
Auto-captions for your first VODs.
- 30 transcription minutes / monthAbout 30 minutes of speech converted to captions per month.
- English VTT captionsCreates standard subtitle files your player can load.
- Attaches to your video playerCaptions appear automatically on your Streama watch page.
- Works with Streama ClipsUse the same captions when burning text into vertical clips.
Transcribe Pro
Searchable libraries and clip-ready captions.
- 300 minutes / month
- Auto chapters (best-effort)Marks chapter points from speech so viewers can jump around the video.
- Priority queue
- Caption burn-in for ClipsBurn captions into the clip so they show without a separate track.
Transcribe Ultra
Studio-scale captioning for long-form archives.
- Everything in Transcribe Pro, plus:
- 1,500 minutes / month
- Bulk-friendly quotas
- Priority support
Start free. Upgrade when traffic or storage needs grow — same Streama account.
Frequently asked questions
- How fast do live captions appear?
- Speech is transcribed near real time: caption lines land on your live page a few seconds after they're spoken, and viewers toggle them with the CC control on the player.
- Do live captions cost extra?
- There is no separate plan — live captioning draws from your monthly Transcribe minutes (the same pool as VOD captions), so Free, Pro, and Ultra all work.
- Do replays keep the captions?
- Your broadcast is recorded as usual; run Streama Transcribe on the replay to attach a full WebVTT track for scrubbing, search, and Clips burn-in.
- Can viewers turn captions off?
- Yes — each viewer controls captions with the CC button on the player, and their choice is remembered on their device.
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