How to caption poker videos for YouTube and Twitch
Automatic captions were trained on everyday speech. They write “ace king suited” as four words, hear “three bet” as a bet of three, and have no idea what a cutoff is. Training sites and streamers hand-edit or skip captions entirely. Uploading your own subtitle file takes ten minutes per video and makes the content searchable.
1. Export the audio
Drop the mp4 straight in, or export an m4a/mp3 for a faster upload. Anything under 45 minutes runs in the browser; split a long session into hands or segments.
2. Pick a card style
- Symbols (A♠K♠, Flop: Q♠ T♦ 4♣) read best as on-screen captions.
- Letters (AsKs, Qs Td 4c) match hand histories and solver outputs, useful for course notes.
- Spoken keeps the words and only fixes ranks and terms, for verbatim captions.
3. Review the big pots
The corrections panel lists every hand, board and size with a timestamp; click to hear the moment. Pokerscribe formats what was said and does not check it against a hand history, so a misspoken card stays misspoken until you fix it.
4. Download .srt and upload
YouTube Studio → Subtitles → Add → Upload file (with timing). The same .srt works on Vimeo and most course platforms. For Twitch VODs exported to YouTube, run the exported file through the same flow. Pro users also get the hand summary export: every hand and board in order, a head start on a course chapter list.