Why educators use Captions
Education and learning is one of the fastest-growing content categories on social media and one of the most common use cases among Captions users. Whether you’re creating a YouTube series, building a paid course, posting edutainment content on TikTok, or distributing lesson recordings through a learning management system, the production challenges are the same: long content needs to be broken into digestible clips, classroom audio is never clean, and your audience is more diverse than you think. Captions handles all three. AI Shorts extracts key moments from long recordings. Denoise removes classroom noise, HVAC hum, and keyboard clicks. And AI Dubbing gives you fully localized versions of your lessons for international students without re-recording anything. For educators who want to publish at volume without being on camera for every video, Prompt to Video lets you create professional talking-head explainers from a script or voiceover alone.Features that matter most
Captions & Styles
Educational viewers read along while watching. Captions dramatically improve comprehension and retention not just accessibility.
SRT Export
Export your captions as an SRT file and upload them directly to YouTube, your LMS, or Zoom cloud recordings for fully accessible course content.
AI Dubbing
Create fully localized versions of your lessons for international students in 28+ languages, with lip sync included.
AI Shorts
Extract the most useful 60-second segments from a 1-hour lecture. Get shareable, focused clips without watching the whole recording.
Prompt to Video
Create professional talking-head explainer videos from a script no camera required. Ideal for concept explainers, course intros, and supplementary material.
Denoise
Remove classroom noise, HVAC hum, keyboard clicks, and background sounds from lesson recordings so every word is clear.
A typical workflow
Lesson clip for social
Record one concept at a time
Film yourself explaining a single concept 2–5 minutes maximum. Use the Captions teleprompter if you want to deliver dense content smoothly without notes.
Extract the best segment with AI Shorts
Import the recording and run AI Shorts. Extract the most useful or engaging 60-second moment the one insight that stands on its own.
Apply AI Edit
Apply AI Edit to polish the clip with captions, music, and transitions. Choose a clean, readable style that doesn’t compete with the content.
Review captions carefully
Manually check every caption. Specialized terminology, technical vocabulary, proper nouns, and names are often the things AI transcription gets wrong and for education, accuracy matters.
Faceless explainer video
Write your script
Write a clear, structured script for the concept you’re explaining. Break it into logical sections with a natural flow. Keep it under 3 minutes for social; longer is fine for course content.
Open Prompt to Video
Go to Prompt to Video, paste your script, and choose a presenter. Captions will generate a professional talking-head video without you needing to film anything.
Add B-roll overlays
Import diagrams, screenshots, slides, or charts as B-roll overlays. Place them over the video at the moments they’re most relevant to the explanation.
Tips for educators
- Always review captions manually for specialized terminology. Auto-transcription is highly accurate for everyday language, but it struggles with discipline-specific vocabulary, scientific terms, names, and acronyms. A quick manual review before publishing protects your credibility.
- Use SRT export for everything going into an LMS or YouTube. Accessible course content isn’t just best practice many platforms and institutions require it. SRT export makes compliance straightforward.
- Keep social clips to one concept per video. The most-watched educational content on TikTok and Instagram teaches exactly one thing. Resist the urge to pack multiple ideas into a single short video save the depth for your course.
- Bold key vocabulary so students can scan and review. Use word effects to emphasize the terms students need to remember. Viewers often skim captions to decide whether to watch a bolded term catches their eye and signals the video is relevant.
- Repurpose course content into social clips. Your existing course recordings are a library of social content. Run them through AI Shorts and you have months of posts without recording anything new.
Go deeper
AI Shorts guide
Extract key moments from long lectures and course recordings.
Dub your video
Create localized versions of your lessons for international students.
Prompt to Video
Generate professional explainer videos from a script without filming.
Export & SRT
Export your captions as SRT for YouTube, Zoom, and LMS platforms.