Karaoke Captions

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One typed request. Word-accurate highlight timing. No credit card required.

How to Add Karaoke Captions with Valmera

1. 1
   Upload your video

   Sign up free at valmera.io and upload your clip — up to 2GB or 3 hours. Valmera analyzes it once with visible progress and builds a word-level transcript, which is what makes true word-by-word highlighting possible.
2. 2
   Type the karaoke request

   Type "add karaoke captions" — or specify the look in the same line: "karaoke captions, four words per line, white text with a red highlight" or "karaoke style in Anton, big, near the bottom". The agent times the highlight to every word for you.
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   Preview, tweak, export

   Watch the preview, then refine by replying: "three words per line", "highlight in neon green", "move them up a bit". Export renders a full-quality H.264 MP4 from your original upload with the karaoke captions burned in.

The one-time analysis of a longer video takes a while and shows visible progress. Every styling change after that is a single message.

Word-Pop Timing from a Word-Level Transcript

The karaoke effect lives or dies on timing: if the highlight lags the voice by even a beat, the whole video feels off. Valmera times the pop from a word-level transcript of your actual audio, so the active word lights up when it's spoken — not on an even metronome guess. Lines hold up to 6 words, and you choose the count per request: two-word lines for maximum punch, five or six for conversational pace.

If the transcript mishears a name or product term, fix it in the editable transcript and the captions re-render — highlight timing intact. The agent's replies are verified by Valmera's honesty layer against the edits actually made, so "done" always means done.

Your Colors, Your Font, Your Position

Karaoke captions aren't one fixed look. Text color and highlight color are both unrestricted — classic white-with-yellow, brand hex codes, neon green on black. Pick any of the 12 bundled fonts (Anton and Archivo Black are short-form favorites; Playfair Display Black turns the same effect editorial), scale sizes from S to XL on a continuous slider, and sit the lines at the bottom, middle, or top of the frame.

Because it's all conversational, iteration costs nothing but a sentence: "same style but smaller", "highlight in my brand orange", "middle of the frame for the hook, bottom after". The full option matrix is in the captions documentation.

Made for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts

Short-form feeds autoplay muted, and karaoke captions are the style built for that reality: the moving highlight gives a silent viewer something to track, word by word, until the sound comes on. In the same conversation you can ask for a 9:16 reframe (captions rescale with the frame), and pair the captions with automatic punch-ins on your most emphasized words for the full short-form treatment — each addition is one more sentence in the same chat.

Who uses this: clip-makers turning podcast moments into vertical posts, talking-head creators captioning hooks, founders posting product explainers, and anyone whose retention graph dips the moment viewers realize they'd have to unmute.

Karaoke Is One Preset of Eleven

Karaoke is a named preset inside Valmera's full caption system — alongside podcast, beast, elegant, stacked, iridescent, chrome, editorial, fashion, luxe, and impact. Every preset shares the same machinery: per-word emphasis that can make any single word big, huge, boxed, glowing, or chrome. Each preset animates word by word on its own, so the 9 entrance animations (fade, pop, slide-up, punch, blur-in, whip, flash, rise, drop) belong to the plain static caption style rather than to the presets. If you want the whole picture before choosing a style, start at add captions to video — or generate plainer, readability-first subtitles with the auto subtitle generator.

Light Up Every Word

Karaoke captions with your colors, your font, your pacing. Free to try.

More Than a Karaoke Caption Maker

The same chat that captions your clip can cut its silences, remove filler words, add music that ducks under your voice, punch in on emphasis, and grade the color — Valmera is a full agentic editor, and karaoke captions are one request inside it. See all the AI video editing tools, add standalone titles with add text to video, or check plans and pricing.

Frequently Asked Questions

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