Learn about Universal Subtitles

Learn about the Universal Subtitles project.

We started Universal Subtitles
because we believe

every video on the web
should be subtitle-able.

Millions of deaf
and hard-of-hearing viewers

require subtitles to access video.

Videomakers and websites should
really care about this stuff too.

Subtitles give them access
to a wider audience

and they also get
better search rankings.

Universal Subtitles
makes it incredibly easy

to add subtitles to almost any video.

Take an existing video on the web,
submit the URL to our website

and then type along with the
dialog to create the subtitles.

After that, tap on your keyboard
to sync them with the video.

Then you're done
— we give you an embed code

for the video that you
can put on any website

at that point, viewers are able
to use the subtitles

and can also
contribute to translations.

We support videos on YouTube,
Blip.TV, Ustream, and many more.

Plus we're adding
more services all the time.

Universal Subtitles works
with many popular video formats,

such as MP4, theora,
webM and over HTML 5.

Our goal is for every video
on the web to be subtitle-able

so that anyone who cares
about the video

can help make it more accessible.