My student Emily recently asked me for recommendations of apps that I use
to easily caption Instagram Stories.
Not only does captioning your Stories make them more accessible,
but majority of people are watching their Stories on silent.
So if you're showing up in your Stories where you're talking,
but not giving captions to compliment your talking,
chances are you're going to lose a lot of viewers.
If you've ever struggled with figuring out how to add captions to your Stories
without it taking all day, you're in the right place because in today's video,
I'm sharing my top three favorite ways to easily add captions to your
Stories.
And stay tuned until the end where I'm going to share the little known app
that's actually created by Instagram that you can use so that people will watch
your Stories even longer.
Adding captions to Stories has worked for my student Kerri,
who has done just that to share more about her digital nomad coaching program.
I'm Elise Darma, and I've helped thousands of entrepreneurs, freelancers,
and creators like yourself use Instagram to actually bring money back to their
business. And while we're here,
why not go ahead and hit the subscribe button and the bell so that you don't
miss any future trainings like today's, because in today's video,
I'm sharing with you how to easily caption your Instagram Stories.
The very first app that you can use to capture your Stories is called Apple
Clips. And yes, it comes with iOS phones.
So here I am inside of Apple Clips, not going to lie.
One of the downfalls of this app is that it only films in square
portrait mode, where for Instagram Stories,
you really want that tall vertical aspect ratio.
So that's one thing to keep in mind,
but the way that it functions is pretty cool. Let me show you how it works.
So the very first thing in this app you're going to do is hit this chat bubble
in the bottom left. And you can see when you scroll through,
there are all these different caption options. Okay?
So let's say we like this style. Cool.
So we're going to choose that one.
Now I'm just going to hit the X button and hold down the red record
button. And it's actually going to caption what I'm saying.
This is a demo of how to use Apple clips for your Instagram Stories.
Alright, let's hit the play button and check it out.
This is a demo of how to use Apple clips for your Instagram Stories.
So in this case, Apple clips accurately transcribed what I was saying,
but in case you ever have to edit it,
all you need to do is tap your clip at the bottom and then tap where it says
"live titles".
So this is where you can actually edit the text that's going to appear.
Once you're happy with your clip hit "done". And then of course,
you're going to hit the export button down at the bottom and save it to your
phone.
The second way to subtitle or caption your Instagram Stories is to use the
keyboard feature within Instagram Stories.
So let me show you what this looks like. Here I am inside of my Stories,
and I'm just going to film a little bit of a clip. Hey, everyone. Today,
I want to share with you my top five Instagram tips for business.
Let's go. So once you've recorded your clip,
you're going to actually want to re-listen to it and hear what you say,
because you're actually going to repeat it. So let's do that. Hey, everyone.
Today, I want to share with you my top five Instagram tips for business.
Let's go. Alright,
now that I've just heard that I'm going to tap the "a" button and then I'm going
to hit the record microphone button in the bottom right,
and I'm actually going to repeat what I just said. Hey everyone,
today, I want to share my top five Instagram tips for business.
Let's go. Alright.
So I just used the keyboard feature to, Oh,
don't forget to hit the keyboard so that it stops recording you. Okay.
So let me just delete that.
And now you can see that I've basically verbally transcribed my Story.
So I'm just going to add a little bit of punctuations.
We'll add a period after "business",
and then of course we can jazz it up a little bit.
So that is one way that you can easily caption,
all directly within Instagram Stories. Now,
the third way to easily caption your Instagram Stories is by using an app that
Instagram created, but not many people know about.
And the app is called Threads. Here I am inside of Threads.
And what Threads is, is basically Instagram's direct messaging feature,
but pulled separate from the app.
So it's kind of like their new Messenger or WhatsApp. To be honest,
I don't use Threads all that much, but I was experimenting with it last night.
And you can see there's a few cool features right at the top is where I can set
my status. So I chose the happy emotion. And the cool thing is,
is that little happy face that you see on my profile picture actually appears in
my Instagram Stories.
So my followers in the Instagram app are going to see that happy face on my
profile picture.
Other things I want to show you in this app are the people at the bottom who I
have selected to be my "close friends". So if I hit Kaeli's profile,
for example,
I can actually take that screenshot or take a video and
send it directly to Kaeli. So let's send that to her.
And I'm going to show you inside my Instagram DMs what you're going to see.
Here I am inside of the Instagram app. And this is my DM thread with Kaeli.
And you can see that I just sent this screenshot to her, this lovely screenshot.
And it actually says at the top "from Threads".
So if she taps that she can see that I'm using Threads,
a camera app from Instagram. In fact,
all of these little videos and clips I sent to her from threads.
So since this is a messaging app,
the last thing I want to show you is if you hit the airplane button right at the
top,
this is actually where you get to choose your close friends or the people that
you want to message on a frequent basis.
So you just hit the lines and then you get to choose your close friends.
You can choose your, your status. You can customize your camera.
You can even choose some themes in terms of how your camera or your thread app
looks. If you go to customize camera,
this is where you get to choose the face bubbles that are going to show the most
often at the bottom. But all this to say,
this is the app that you can use to automatically create subtitles and
captions. Now, the thing is,
this feature is only available to people in the U.S. I'm not in the U.S.
right now, I'm in Canada.
So I don't actually have this feature within Threads that will automatically
allow me to create subtitles.
Check this out, record a video while you're talking.
And whatever you say will show up as text.
It's like texting without typing anything. Try it out now.
And of course,
if you're in the U.S. Go ahead and download the Threads app and check out the
auto-captioning feature that Instagram has built in the app.
My feeling is that it's probably going to be the most easy and intuitive to use,
because it was built by Instagram.
And obviously the day that I get this feature here in Canada,
you better believe I'm going to demo it here on my channel.
So there you have it:
three ways to easily add subtitles or captions to your Instagram Stories so
that they're even more accessible and watchable. Now,
if you're watching this thinking, well, that's great Elise,
but I really don't know what to say in my Instagram Stories, well,
you're in luck. I invite you to check out Story Vault.
Story Vault is my answer to your question of,
What do I post today in my Stories?
Story Vault is 800 ideas for your Stories,
all divided by business to business and business to consumer.
So you're definitely going to find a ton of ideas for your business inside of
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To ease and revenue. I'll see you in the next video.
And then down in the bottom area of this keyboard,
you're just going to tap the microphone button.
What you're going to do is, Oh, it's recording me.
Oops.