Add animated captions to any screen recording — in 100+ languages

June 2, 2026 · 5 min read

Captions are the single highest-leverage edit you can make to a video. Most people watch with the sound off at first, and captions keep them there long enough to turn it on. Here is how to add them without touching a timeline.

Transcription happens automatically

When you open a recording in Studio, Whisper Large v3 transcribes it and timestamps every word. Llama 3.3 70B then cleans up the transcript — fixing punctuation, casing, and the odd misheard term — so the captions read like something a person wrote, not a raw speech-to-text dump.

Every language, rendered properly

Language support is not just a matter of translating words — the text has to render with the right script and direction. El Ojo handles this end to end:

• Right-to-left scripts — Urdu, Arabic, and Hebrew flow the correct direction.
• CJK — Chinese, Japanese, and Korean render with a font that has the glyphs.
• Devanagari — Hindi and related scripts shape correctly instead of falling back to boxes.
• Code-switching — mixed Urdu-English or Hinglish speech is detected per chunk, so each line is captioned in the language actually spoken.

Style them to match your brand

Pick from a set of caption presets — clean, bold, bounce, capsule — or the signature El Ojo style that highlights only the word being spoken. You can recolor the active word, change the font, add emoji that react to keywords, and drag the caption block anywhere in the frame.

Burned in, not a sidecar file

On export, captions are rendered into the video itself — so they play everywhere: LinkedIn, X, TikTok, email, an embed on your site. There is no separate subtitle file to attach or lose, and no platform that silently strips them.