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Vimeo Captioning Services for Accurate and Fast Captions
Any Video · Any Platform · Any Caption Format
Our Vimeo captioning services are done by human captioners: we caption your recorded Vimeo videos and deliver SRT and WebVTT files ready to upload in Vimeo's Languages menu. Captions start at $1/min for English and $7/min for other languages, with standard delivery in 2 to 3 business days. Call 1-800-230-7918 for a free quote.
Universities, broadcasters, healthcare providers, filmmakers, businesses and content creators are among our 28,700+ clients.
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Closed Captions & SDH
Speaker labels, sound effects & non-speech audio
Broadcast Caption Standards
SCC and CEA-608/708 delivery available
Streaming & Platform Files
SRT, VTT and platform-ready caption files
Human Timing & Review
Accuracy, synchronization & readability checked
Multilingual Captioning
Human captioners across 100+ languages
Need captions that support FCC or ADA requirements for broadcast, streaming, or online video? Here is what closed captioning includes, what it costs, and how fast it delivers.
Closed captioning adds time-synchronized text to video content, including spoken dialogue, speaker identification, sound effects, and music cues. Viewers can turn captions on or off based on their accessibility needs or viewing preferences.
Closed captions help broadcasters, businesses, educators, and content creators make videos more accessible for deaf and hard of hearing audiences while supporting FCC and ADA accessibility requirements. If you have any questions or need assistance, call us at 1-800-230-7918.
Closed Captions vs Subtitles vs SDH
| Type | Purpose | Content included |
|---|---|---|
| Closed Captions | Accessibility | Dialogue, speaker identification, sound effects, and audio cues |
| Subtitles | Language translation | Translated dialogue without accessibility sound cues (subtitling services) |
| SDH Captions | Accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing viewers | Dialogue, speaker identification, sound effects, and music descriptions |
When you upload a file to Vimeo, choose the Captions type for closed captions and subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH), and the Subtitles type for translated dialogue.
Impeccable Vimeo Captioning Services You Can Rely On
Vimeo hosts video for businesses, schools and creators, and it lets you upload your own caption files for every video. Captions also matter for viewers who watch with the sound off: Vimeo's marketing blog cites Facebook research finding that captioning videos increases their view time by 12%.
With digitalization and the consumption of video content growing extensively around the world, many brands and professionals use videos to communicate their message to their target consumers. This makes Vimeo captioning services an important tool for its reach.
We deliver interactive captions that enhance viewer engagement, support multiple media formats, and provide editable files for seamless future updates to your Vimeo content.
Our captioning experts also provide specialized support for e-learning captioning, helping educators make their Vimeo-based learning modules accessible to diverse students globally.
Many people who watch Vimeo videos are deaf or hard of hearing, and many others watch with the sound off. Without captions, they miss the dialogue and the sounds that carry the story.
Here is where you can use closed captioning services for Vimeo content to make the content accessible and engaging for people around the world.
Contact our team for confidential and secure closed & open captioning services for your videos on Vimeo. Pricing starts at $1/min for English captions & $7/min for captions in other languages. Contact us at 1-800-230-7918 to receive your free quote. We offer special bulk-order discounts for customers who upload multiple Vimeo videos or large-volume captioning projects.
Before delivery, every file is checked against Vimeo's upload requirements: SRT or WebVTT, encoded in UTF-8 so special characters display correctly in Vimeo's player.
Vimeo's automatic captions or human captions: which should you use?
Use Vimeo's automatic captions as a draft for informal videos you will review yourself, and choose human captions when names, terminology, speaker labels and sound descriptions have to be right, or when the video must meet an accessibility policy.
| Method | Typical accuracy | Names, terms and speaker labels | Turnaround | Starting price | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vimeo automatic captions (built-in speech recognition) | 85–90%, typical for automatic captions, depending on the audio | Names and jargon need manual edits; speaker labels are not added automatically | Generated after upload | Included with eligible Vimeo plans | Drafts and informal clips you will check yourself |
| Vanan human captions (100% human captioners) | 99+% | Verified in context, with speaker labels and sound descriptions | 2 to 3 business days; Rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours | From $1/min for English, $7/min for other languages | Published, client, training and accessibility-reviewed videos |
Automatic captions are a fair starting point for a short internal clip if someone on your team checks them line by line. For videos you publish, sell or may need to show in an accessibility review, human captions remove that editing work and catch what speech recognition misses in names, accents and overlapping speech. If you already have Vimeo's automatic captions, we can correct and re-time that file instead of starting over.
Who Uses Our Vimeo Captioning Services?
Content creators & video marketers
Educators & universities
Businesses & training teams
Course creators using a learning management system (LMS)
Documentaries & filmmakers
NGOs & community organizations
Podcasters and vloggers
Agencies delivering client videos on Vimeo
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Our Captioning Process: 100% Human Captioners
Human Transcription
Professional native-language captioners transcribe every word, sound effect, and music cue. No automatic speech recognition is used.
Upload Your File Now →Caption Editing & Sync
Human editors time-code every line and verify synchronization, speaker identification, punctuation, and placement.
Vanan 3-Pass QA
Before delivery, a senior reviewer plays the video through and checks every line for accuracy, completeness and timing.
Start your order →Every caption is created and verified by human captioners. We never deliver machine-generated captions.
✓ Response within minutes ✓ Free revisions for 30 days after delivery
Understanding Why Vimeo Closed Captioning is Important
Vimeo captioning services are one of the most versatile and important tools for businesses and independent video makers to reach a wide range of viewers.
If you're also hosting podcasts on Vimeo or other platforms, our podcast captioning services ensure your spoken content is clearly understood, even in silent environments or by viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Our Vimeo captioning services capture the spoken content accurately in multiple languages, with each video assigned to a captioner by language and accent.
When you add closed captions to a video on Vimeo, you will get more views and attention from people interested in your brand.
We deliver captions in the formats Vimeo accepts, prepared to support the caption requirement of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), to help viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing follow the dialogue and the sounds that matter. In addition to Vimeo content, our post-production captioning services help maintain professional quality and accessibility across all your video distribution platforms.
Vimeo is similar to YouTube, where you can increase your followers and viewers by adding closed captions to videos. Your company or brand can reach international viewers with the help of our Vimeo closed captioning services. Our services are equipped to handle bulk projects, with scalable solutions that grow with your needs, including multilingual captioning for expanding global audiences.
If you're based in the city, our captioning services in New York can help your video content align with both state and federal accessibility standards.
Captioning & transcribing videos on Vimeo will help boost the efficiency and searchability of the content.
They also help viewers who are not native English speakers better follow the video content, and the caption text makes the spoken content of your video searchable.
Captions can be added to business videos, presentations, tutorials, and educational videos on Vimeo and YouTube to make them more useful for employees and clients.
The versatility of Italian, Urdu, Polish, Spanish, German, Korean, and French Subtitling ensures that your Vimeo videos cater to a wide audience, providing inclusivity and global reach.
Our Process
Step 1: Upload Vimeo link or file
Step 2: We caption with 99+% accuracy
Step 3: Deliver SRT/VTT files
Step 4: You add the file in Vimeo's Languages menu (steps below)
Step 5: Free revisions for 30 days after delivery
How do you add our caption file to a Vimeo video?
Open the video in your Vimeo library, go to its Languages menu, upload the SRT or WebVTT file we deliver, set the language and the track type, and switch the track on.
Log in to Vimeo and open the video from your Library.
Select Languages in the toolbar on the left of the player.
Click + at the top of the Languages menu and choose our caption file from your computer.
Set the language, then choose Captions for closed captions or SDH, or Subtitles for a translated dialogue track.
Upload the file and switch the track on, so viewers can pick it from the closed captions (CC) button in the player.
The Vimeo Help Center states that Vimeo supports SRT and WebVTT files, recommends WebVTT, and needs caption files encoded in UTF-8. We deliver either format, or both, in UTF-8. Vimeo changes its menus from time to time, so check its current guide if a button has moved.
If your captions do not appear on Vimeo
The track is switched off: open the Languages menu and turn the uploaded track on.
Characters look garbled: the file was saved in a different encoding; re-save it as UTF-8 or ask us for a fresh copy.
Captions run early or late: the file was timed to a different edit of the video; send us the final cut and we re-time it.
Closed Captioning Rates & Turnaround
Closed captioning is priced per minute of source video, based on length, language, and delivery requirements, and human-produced to a 99+% accuracy standard. English captions start at $1/min; captions in other languages start at $7/min. Your exact quote is confirmed in writing within minutes.
| Service | Starting From | What It Is |
|---|---|---|
| Caption translation (subtitle translation into a different language) | $11.20/min | Transcription and translation together, delivered as a timed caption file in the new language |
| Foreign-language captioning (same-language, non-English) | $7/min | Time-coded captions in the video's own language, across 100+ languages |
| Burned-in captions (open captions) | $5/min | Captions permanently embedded in the video, for social feeds and viewers watching on mute |
| English closed captions (SRT / VTT / SCC) | $1/min | Same-language, time-coded caption file for Vimeo, YouTube, an LMS, or broadcast |
Turnaround
Delivery time depends on file duration and language specification. The tiers below apply to English and top major languages, with or without a script; longer files and rare-language projects receive an exact delivery date, confirmed in writing with your quote.
| Tier | Delivery | Rate Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | 2 to 3 business days | Base rate |
| Rush | Rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours | Confirmed in your quote |
| Same-day | Shorter projects, on request | Quoted |
Your quote confirms the rush time before work starts; it is set by the file's length, its language and the audio quality.
Ways to lower your cost: provide an accurate transcript, choose a standalone SRT/VTT file instead of burned-in captions, pick standard turnaround, or bundle 60+ minutes for volume pricing.
Ballpark Examples
| Project | Service | Typical Starting Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 10-minute video, English captions | Closed captions (SRT/VTT) | from ~$10 |
| 30-minute video, captions burned into the file | Burned-in (open) captions | from ~$150 |
| 20-minute video, Spanish-language captions | Foreign-language captioning | from ~$140 |
Illustrative only, based on clean single-speaker audio and standard turnaround. Your exact quote is confirmed in writing within minutes.
Not sure yet? Start with a free captioning trial. Upload a short clip and see the quality first.
Top Reasons to Use Vimeo Video Captioning Services
Captions play a key role in enhancing the accessibility and reach of your videos on the Vimeo platform. When you work with a professional captioning organization like us, you can get the following benefits through our Vimeo captioning services:
Our team delivers captions to a 99+% accuracy standard, in the file format your platform needs. For burned-in captions, we can match the font, size and position to your brand.
Our professionals are available 24/7 to help you get on-time delivery of captions for all your projects. They provide a quick turnaround time to meet your deadlines. You can use our rush delivery services for urgent needs.
Uploaded SRT and WebVTT files are displayed in the style of Vimeo's own player, so caption styling applies to burned-in captions. We also extend multilingual captioning support in Russian, French, and Spanish to help you effectively reach and engage global audiences without compromising accuracy or timing.
How Vanan Compares on What Buyers Check
| What Buyers Compare | Typical Providers | Vanan |
|---|---|---|
| Price for English captions | Commonly $1.50–$2.50/min | From $1/min |
| Foreign-language captioning | Varies by provider | 100+ languages, from $7/min |
| Accuracy | AI, hybrid or human, depending on the provider | 99+% accuracy standard, 100% human captioners, never machine-generated |
| Compliance | General claims | Produced to meet FCC 47 CFR 79.1 for English and Spanish; prepared to support ADA, Section 508, WCAG, the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) and the European Accessibility Act (EAA); SCC/MCC broadcast delivery |
| Turnaround | Varies | Standard 2 to 3 business days · Rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours · same-day for shorter projects on request; quotes confirmed in writing, free revisions for 30 days |
| Track record | N/A | 17+ years · 189,000+ minutes captioned · 4.9★ from 2,456+ reviews |
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Captioning Standards and Accessibility Requirements We Support
FCC caption quality rules (47 CFR 79.1): captions produced to meet them for English and Spanish programming
ADA accessibility, including Title II (WCAG 2.1 Level AA for state and local government web content)
Section 508, with WCAG 2.0 Level AA as its benchmark
CVAA, for programs first shown on US television and later delivered online
European Accessibility Act (EAA)
Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) Captioning Key for sound effects, music and speaker labels
Sound effects are captioned in square brackets, in lowercase, naming the source of the sound unless it is visible on screen, as the DCMP Captioning Key recommends.
File Formats
Industries We Serve with Vimeo Captioning:
Education: Online courses hosted on Vimeo or embedded in an LMS, lectures, and educational videos.
Entertainment: Movies, documentaries, TV shows, and web series.
Corporate: Training and onboarding videos, recorded webinars, and company presentations.
Marketing & Advertising: Promotional videos, product demos, and social media content.
Healthcare: Medical videos, patient education, and instructional content.
Government: Public service announcements, training, and informational videos.
Media & Journalism: News, interviews, and reports that need captions for broader reach.
Comprehensive Vimeo Captioning Services
At our core, we provide accurate text representation with time-synchronized captions, making sure your content is accessible and easy to follow. Whether you need closed or open captioning options, we’ve got you covered with support for multiple languages to reach a diverse audience. For YouTube closed captioning, we provide the same high level of accuracy and synchronization for your video content. For burned-in captions, we can also match the caption style to your brand while keeping the text readable.
Our offline captioning services are especially valuable for content teams working with pre-produced videos that need precise, time-coded captions ready before uploading.
We caption recorded video, from finished uploads to recorded webinars and event replays, with speaker identification and background noise description so your viewers get the full context. Our broadcast captioning team prepares broadcast-format files for recorded programs. Plus, our service is scalable for various content types, so no matter what you're sharing, we can handle it. Projects are covered by a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) on request, with secure file transfer and access limited to the team assigned to your order.
Fast and Secure Vimeo Captioning with SEO Benefits
We recognize how crucial deadlines are, which is why we prioritize quick turnaround times to deliver your captions exactly when you need them. But that's not all. Our service also offers search engine optimization (SEO) benefits, helping your videos become more discoverable with accurate, searchable captions.
For those also seeking to optimize their content on other platforms, our YouTube captioning services ensure your videos are equally accessible and optimized for a wide audience.
Plus, we ensure full file compatibility, making the process as seamless as possible across Vimeo and other platforms. Above all, your privacy is our priority. We maintain strict confidentiality and security, so you can rest easy knowing your content is in good hands. Whether it's for a quick turnaround or a larger project, we're here to support you every step of the way.
Our process is simple: share your Vimeo link or upload the file, and we send back accurately timed captions with free revisions for 30 days after delivery. We have served 28,700+ clients, including creators, educators and businesses captioning training, marketing and public videos. Application programming interface (API) integration for file upload and delivery is available on request.
Case Study: English to Spanish Vimeo Captioning Services
Client Information
Client Industry: Digital Media
Location: United States
File Information
File Type & Duration: Video content, 6 hours total
Goal
The client, a digital media company, required accurate, time-coded captions for a series of promotional videos targeting Spanish-speaking audiences. Their goal was to ensure accessibility and improve viewer engagement by offering subtitles in Spanish. The project needed to be completed within a six-week window to align with the launch of a new marketing campaign.
Key Challenges
Language Complexity: The client’s videos included specialized terminology related to digital media, which required precise translation to maintain the integrity of the message.
Multiple Speakers: The videos featured a range of speakers with varied accents, making transcription and captioning more complex.
Video Length: With a total duration of 6 hours of video content, the volume of work was substantial, requiring meticulous attention to detail to ensure all captions were correctly time-coded and synchronized with the video content.
Platform Compatibility: The captions had to be optimized for Vimeo’s platform, ensuring they displayed correctly across different devices and screens.
Speakers & Languages
Speakers: Multiple, including individuals with various accents
Languages Used: English (Source), Spanish (Target)
Delivery Time
Duration: 6 weeks
Strategy
Our team employed a multi-phase process to deliver the project on time:
Transcription: The videos were transcribed in English, capturing the essence and tone of the spoken content.
Translation: A team of expert translators fluent in both English and Spanish handled the conversion, ensuring the terminology was adapted for the target audience.
Captioning: The translated content was time-coded, with captions synchronized to match the video’s pace. Special attention was given to technical jargon to ensure accuracy and readability.
Vimeo Optimization: The final captions were formatted to be compatible with Vimeo’s platform, ensuring ease of use across various devices and maintaining high-quality standards for display.
Results
The project was completed within the 6-week timeline, and the following outcomes were achieved:
Improved Accessibility: The client’s videos were now accessible to a wider audience, including Spanish-speaking viewers, enhancing their reach and engagement.
Increased Viewer Retention: The addition of accurate captions contributed to a 20% increase in viewer retention rates across the targeted videos.
Enhanced Brand Image: The professional quality of the captions and timely delivery bolstered the client’s reputation for inclusivity and attention to detail.
Testimonial
"We were extremely pleased with the captioning services provided. The team delivered high-quality work under tight deadlines, ensuring our content was accessible to our Spanish-speaking audience." - Digital Media Executive
How to Find Us?
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. We deliver SRT and WebVTT files, the two formats Vimeo accepts for caption uploads, encoded in UTF-8 so accented and non-Latin characters display correctly. If you also publish the video elsewhere, other formats can be exported from the same timed file.
Vimeo accepts both and recommends WebVTT. If your workflow already runs on SRT, we can deliver SRT instead. Tell us which one you need and we deliver that format, or both.
Choose Captions for closed captions and SDH files, which carry speaker labels and sound descriptions for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing. Choose Subtitles for a translated track that carries the dialogue only. One video can hold several tracks, one for each language and type.
Usually the track is uploaded but switched off: open the video's Languages menu and turn it on. If the characters look garbled, the file was not saved in UTF-8. If the captions run early or late, the file was timed to a different edit of the video; send us the final cut and we re-time it.
Captions let viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing follow the video, help everyone who watches with the sound off, and make the spoken content searchable. For agencies and filmmakers, a caption file is also part of a finished client deliverable.
Human captions are prepared to support ADA, Section 508 and WCAG caption requirements. Before delivery, each file is reviewed on the four caption quality points accessibility reviewers use: the words are right, in sync, complete and placed clear of on-screen text. Whether a video meets a particular law also depends on who publishes it and where.
Yes. Agencies and filmmakers use us for client deliverables, with captions matched to each project's style and files packaged per project, so your team can pass them straight to the end client.
A human editor and a senior reviewer check every file. Names, brands and technical terms are verified in context rather than spelled by ear, which is where automatic captions most often go wrong.
Standard delivery is 2 to 3 business days. Rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours is available; file length, language and audio quality set the exact time, and shorter projects can be delivered the same day on request. Batches are scheduled around your publishing calendar.
Yes. We caption in 100+ languages and create translated subtitle tracks that sit beside your English captions in Vimeo's player. Each translation is timed against the original captions, so every language stays in sync with the same video.
Yes. We correct and re-time captions produced by Vimeo's automatic tool or another service. Send a sample first: we review the existing file and quote the corrections it needs before you commit.
Yes, once the recording is available. We caption recorded video only: uploaded videos, recorded webinars and event replays. We do not provide live or real-time captioning during a broadcast.
Share the Vimeo link or upload the video, and tell us the language and the file format you need. You approve a quote confirmed in writing, and the caption files come back ready for Vimeo's Languages menu. Orders are accepted 24/7.
Vanan Services provides human Vimeo captioning services to a 99+% accuracy standard, starting at $1/min for English and $7/min for other languages. We also caption YouTube videos and video for other platforms.
Captions are expected on published films and short films, academic and corporate training videos, advertisements, and any video covered by an accessibility policy. Whether a video is legally required to carry captions depends on who publishes it and where.
Vimeo captioning starts at $1/min for English captions and $7/min for captions in other languages. Burned-in captions start at $5/min and caption translation at $11.20/min. The final price depends on the video's length, the number of speakers and the audio, and your quote confirms it before work starts.