SyncWords, a privately owned company headquartered in the US, was founded in 2013 and employs approximately 30 individuals, reporting $2.4M in revenue as of 2024. The company specializes in media managed services, offering a cloud-based software solution that includes auto-transcription, closed caption authoring and editing, live translation, automatic positioning of on-screen text, and automatic alignment of text to speech.
On June 26, 2026, SyncWords announced a technology partnership with StreamVX to deliver an end-to-end AI subtitle pipeline for live broadcast and OTT. This collaboration aims to reliably integrate DVB-TTML subtitling, addressing the challenge of manually connecting AI captions to playout infrastructure. The companies noted that live broadcasters increasingly rely on AI captioning to meet accessibility mandates and expand multilingual audiences, with SyncWords already providing AI subtitles to numerous live channels globally.
SyncWords's customers primarily consist of translation and Localization and broadcast television and radio companies. Examples of SyncWords's customers include Viacom, Lionbridge and CBS News. SyncWords has partners like Kaltura.