SkynetAccessibility adds AI captions to Joomla videos

It generates synchronised subtitles for videos published from a Joomla site.

Video captions arise because audio content needs a text alternative for deaf and hard-of-hearing visitors, and can also help people watching without sound. Joomla core can store and publish media, while editors can embed YouTube, Vimeo, or self-hosted video and add caption markup such as an HTML <track> element when they have a caption file. It does not transcribe video or automatically create timed captions. A template override can change the player markup, but not perform speech recognition. This add-on goes beyond those options by, according to the listing, sending supported videos through AI speech recognition, producing captions in more than 50 languages, and providing processing and usage information in a dashboard.

It is aimed at sites with a regular video programme—newsrooms, training providers, publishers, organisations running webinars, or agencies managing many client videos—where creating caption files manually is a recurring task. A small site with few videos, captions already supplied by YouTube or Vimeo, or a team comfortable preparing VTT files has little obvious reason to add it.

The download is listed as free, but the service uses monthly plans priced from $25 to $139 according to total playback time. Before installing, check what happens to uploaded or streamed media and transcripts, how accurate languages and speaker handling are, whether existing captions are preserved, and what “self-hosted” processing entails. The listing requires CORS access to Skynet domains and does not explain data retention, API limits, billing, or compliance guarantees. The developer has three other directory entries, but the listing shows no reviews; documentation and support are marked unavailable.

Listed on the Joomla Extensions Directory.