How to Add Auto Captions (Subtitles) to a Video in PressCut

PressCut turns speech into captions with word timing. Captions are unlimited and free, and the audio never leaves your phone.

Before you start

The first time you create captions, PressCut downloads the speech model once (60–190 MB, depending on the quality setting). After that, captions work without internet. If Google Play waits for Wi-Fi, connect to Wi-Fi or tap Use mobile data.

Create captions

1. Open your project and tap Captions in the toolbar. You can also start with Auto captions from the quick tools on the home screen.
2. Under Spoken language, choose the language of the video or leave it on Detect.
3. Tap Create captions and wait while PressCut prepares the speech model, reads the audio and recognises the speech.
4. When it is done you see how many words were captioned. Play the video to check them.

Choose a style

• Style: Clean, Box, Karaoke, Bold, Highlight or One word.
• Position: move the captions up or down. Keep important text away from the bottom fifth of the screen, where apps place their buttons.
• Highlight colour: the colour of the spoken word in Karaoke and Highlight styles.
• Capital letters: uses the rules of the spoken language, so a Turkish i becomes İ.

Fix a word

Tap Edit by text, then press and hold a word to fix its spelling.

Translate the captions

Tap Translate captions, choose the language and tap Translate. Turn on Show both languages to show the original and the translation together.

Save the captions as a file

Tap Save as SRT to save a subtitle file you can upload to YouTube or use in another editor. Delete captions removes them from the project.

If captions do not work

• The speech model could not be downloaded: connect to the internet once and try again.
• There is not enough free space: free up 60–190 MB of storage.
• None of the clips has sound: captions need a clip with speech.
• This clip is too long to analyse at once: use Split to divide it and try again.