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Automatic subtitles that hold attention

A large share of feed videos play muted, and viewers swipe away from anything they cannot follow silently. Subtitles are not decoration — they are the script of your video for most of your audience.

Assume silence, always

Design every video to work muted: clear dialogue, visible reactions, and subtitles that carry the meaning alone. If a scene makes no sense without audio, restructure it.

Keep captions readable

Short lines, high contrast, positioned away from platform UI. Auto-generated subtitles handle the timing; your job is to check that each caption is readable at phone distance in one glance.

Subtitles are retention

Watch-time curves show it plainly: videos with clean subtitles hold viewers longer in the first three seconds — and the first three seconds decide whether the platform shows the video to anyone else.

Takeaway

Design for silent viewing first: subtitles are the audio track for most of your audience.

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