In July, Wildmoka rolled out three subtitling upgrades focused on accuracy, compliance, and speed. Captions now emulate native EIA-608/708 broadcast rendering in WebVTT exports, external live subtitles can be automatically re-timed to match ingest speech-to-text for lip-accurate results, and a new keyword search across the Captions and Timeline tabs makes finding and clipping the right moment effortless. Together, these updates streamline subtitle workflows while preserving the integrity of legally approved captions.
What's new in this release:
Subtitling: Emulate EIA-608/708 caption behavior in webVTT exports
When repurposing a broadcast feed, Wildmoka receives close captions in EIA-608/708 format and converts them into WebVTT format before publishing or re-streaming to social or OTT destinations. Our previous implementation followed the WebVTT standard defaults where close captions are displayed as center-bottom positioned, center-justified text, text expanding outward from the center. With this feature, WebVTT exports now follow broadcast standards emulating the EIA-608/708 rendering, which is lower-third positioned, with left-aligned text and word-by-word scrolling.
How it works: All WebVTT exports are emulating EIA-608/708 by default. It applies to both the legacy clip editor and new clip editor.
Why this matters: This feature maintains a caption presentation that closely matches the source format, preserving the intended viewing experience and improving accessibility for caption-dependent users. It also reduces compliance risk and ensures a more consistent, familiar experience across all exported content.
Feature available since July 7, 2026.
Subtitling: Automatic re-timing of external subtitles
Automatically re-synchronize external live subtitles using our ingest speech-to-text timings.
How it works: During ingest, our speech-to-text engine generates accurate word-level timings from the audio. External live subtitles (e.g. EIA-608/708 or other formats) — which carry a few seconds of delay because they were generated live — are matched against these timings. The captions are automatically re-timed to align with the actual speech, with no manual re-syncing required.
Existing subtitle content is preserved, so legally approved, broadcast-vetted subtitles remain unchanged — only their timing is corrected.
This feature is activated per stream in the source stream setup.
Why this matters: Customers broadcasting live often have subtitles that are legally approved and already aired on TV, but the live generation process leaves them several seconds out of sync. Manually fixing this is slow and tedious. Automated resync delivers a major time saving and a noticeably better viewing experience — a significant gain for any customer ingesting external subtitles such as EIA-608/708.
Feature available since August 4, 2026.
Subtitling: Search keywords in the Timeline and Captions tabs
It’s now possible in the new clip editor to search for keywords in the speech-to-text transcription and in subtitles.
How it works:
The Timeline tab in the new clip editor gains a new filter - ‘cc’ - for displaying close captions, as in the legacy clip editor. It’s now possible to search keywords in close captions, and the panel lists all captions containing that keyword. Clicking one of the selected caption panes positions the player header at the starting frame of that caption; clicking the scissors button automatically cuts a clip with the IN/OUT points matching the caption; clicking the caption button instead opens the Captions tab at the same timestamp, allowing the user to clip in text selection mode.
A new magnifying-glass button in the Captions tab top right corner lets users search keywords in the text-to-speech transcript and language translations. Clicking the button redirects the user to the search in the Timeline tab with only the ‘cc’ filter enabled.
Why this matters: Editors can now instantly locate any word or phrase in long recordings instead of scrubbing through manually, then clip it in one click. This makes repurposing long-form content into short clips significantly faster — especially valuable for teams producing high volumes of social or vertical (9:16) content.
Feature available since August 4, 2026.