How to caption a podcast or interview with multiple speakers

When one person talks, captions just follow the voice. When two or more people talk, a viewer with the sound off cannot tell who said what, and a line that mixes two speakers reads like nonsense. Speaker-aware captions fix both problems.

Turn on speaker detection

In the Generate subtitles dialog, switch on Detect multiple speakers. ClipMint splits the captions wherever the speaker changes and tags each line with its speaker, which is what unlocks per-speaker styling. For a single voice, leave it off: the captions come out cleaner.

Name the speakers and style each one

• Open the Style tab and find Speakers.
• Give each speaker a name, such as the host and the guest.
• Turn on the name label for a speaker when viewers need to see who is talking.
• Style each speaker independently, for example one color per voice, or keep one shared style for everyone.
• Reset any speaker back to the shared style with one click.

Give the speakers a quick review

Speaker detection does the heavy lifting, and a short review pass is what makes conversation captions look polished. Real conversations have crosstalk and quick interjections, like a "yeah" or a "right" from the other side of the table, and those are the lines worth a second look. In the Subtitles tab, select any line that belongs to someone else and reassign it, or sweep several lines onto the right speaker at once.

Tips for clear multi-speaker captions

• Use clearly different colors, not two shades of the same one.
• Show name labels when speakers are new to the audience, and skip them for a familiar duo.
• Keep lines short, so a reply does not share the screen with the question before it.
• Check the moments where people talk over each other first.

Exporting multi-speaker captions

Speaker names and per-speaker styles are part of the burned-in MP4. SRT and VTT downloads carry the text and timing only, because subtitle files have no styling, so use the MP4 when the colors and labels matter.