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Captions

Score 22.3 / 100 12 providers +9 via APIs 13 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (12)

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Strong 3 Solid coverage with minor gaps
CaptionsCompanyVideoArtificial IntelligenceVideo Editing3 APIs64.9TranscriptFetchTranscriptsSpeech-to-TextYouTube2 APIs64.9DescriptArtificial IntelligenceAudio EditingMedia1 API54.9
Developing 6 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
MediaCaption APIYouTubeTranscriptionSubtitles1 API51.9ZencoderCompanyVideoVideo EncodingTranscoding1 API47.9MirageCompanyArtificial IntelligenceVideoVideo Generation1 API45.5VidGridVideoScreen RecordingVideo Hosting1 API40.7Salad Transcription APIAudio TranscriptionDiarizationGPU1 API39.9SonixAudio TranscriptionTranscriptionSpeech-to-TextSubtitles1 API39.4
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
Happy ScribeAudio TranscriptionTranscriptionSpeech-to-TextSubtitles1 API39.2TrintAudio TranscriptionTranscriptionSpeech-to-TextMedia1 API38.6
Emerging 1 Early or largely undocumented
RankFabrikDataWeb ScrapingLocal BusinessPlaces4 APIs20.7

APIs with this tag (13)

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Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Wistia Captions APIThe Captions API from Wistia — 3 operation(s) for captions.67.1
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Youtube Captions APIOperations related to YouTube video caption tracks56.4
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Webex Meeting Transcripts APIRetrieve and manage meeting transcripts including download endpoints for VTT and TXT transcript formats. Su...46.4Cloudflare Stream Captions APIPer-language captions and subtitles for a video.44.9
Thin 4 Limited public surface area
Podcastle TranscriptionTranscription and speech-to-text are Podcastle platform features (multi-language transcription with speaker...38.8Vonage Video API Captions APIStart and stop real-time live captions.35.4NASA Captions APIThe Captions API from NASA — 1 operation(s) for captions.33.4Agora Real-Time Speech-to-Text APIThe Agora Real-Time Speech-to-Text API provides streaming transcription and real-time translation across mu...30.6
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
CaptionsTimestamped/segmented video transcript retrieval, up to 50 videos per call. Billed per transcript returned.20.7JobsJob posting collection that segments by publish window/area to exceed the public 1,000-result cap. Billed p...20.7PlacesLocal business data collection via geo point + radius sweep with deduplication on place ID; optional email ...20.7VerifyEmail verification via syntax, disposable-domain, MX and SMTP dialogue checks (no message sent), up to 100 ...20.7Instance Captions APIThe Captions API from Instance — 1 operation(s) for captions.19.3

Companies reaching this through an API (9)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Captions” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Agora Cisco Webex Meetings Cloudflare Stream Instance NASA Podcastle Vonage Video API Wistia Youtube

Score breakdown

Frequency
41.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.3
spread across providers
Quality lift
51.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
10.1
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Speech-to-Text 7 co-occurrences Transcription 9 co-occurrences Video 12 co-occurrences Media 13 co-occurrences Job 5 co-occurrences Webhook 5 co-occurrences Artificial Intelligence 9 co-occurrences

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