# Free Pc App that works like Camtasia Audiate

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### 🧾 two of Audiate’s jobs, five free apps that do them

**Audiate does two jobs — words that follow your voice, and a voice that is not yours. Neither job needs a subscription.** These are the apps I use on a plain Windows PC, and what each one is actually for.

| the app | its job in this build | where to get it |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Subtitle Edit | speech to captions, then fix the words and timing — Whisper is built in | [nikse.dk/subtitleedit](https://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit) |
| Audacity | clean the voice, then change its pitch and speed | [audacityteam.org](https://www.audacityteam.org/) |
| Voicemod | change the voice while you speak | [voicemod.net](https://www.voicemod.net/) |
| Camtasia | import the captions, style them, export the video | [techsmith.com/camtasia](https://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/) |
| DaVinci Resolve | the heavier motion, grading and finishing work | [blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve](https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve) |

**The one thing the paid app keeps:** edit a word in its transcript and the timeline moves with it.

Everything else on the list — captions, timing, audio cleanup, the voice, the render — the five above cover.

**The run, in order**

1. Record in Camtasia
2. Clean the voice in Audacity, export WAV
3. Subtitle Edit → transcribe → fix → export SRT
4. Camtasia → import the SRT → style and animate
5. Preview once from the top, then export

> **The settings that make it look professional**
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> **Captions that read well**
> 
> - Two lines maximum, about a second minimum on screen
> - Break at natural pauses, never leave one small word alone on a line
> - Keep commands, names and numbers exactly as spoken
> - Check the first and last minute twice
> 
> **Camtasia caption style for lessons**
> 
> - Clean sans-serif in white, with an outline or a dark strip behind it
> - Near the bottom, clear of code and slides; yellow only for the word you are pointing at
> - Big enough for a phone screen; few animations in technical lessons
> 
> **Audacity, the short version**
> 
> - Copy the track before touching it, then: noise reduction only when it is needed → clarity EQ → normalize
> - Pitch for a different voice, tempo when the delivery drags; keep both gentle, listen on headphones
> - Export WAV and drop it under the video, original track muted, then check sync
> 
> **Voice recipes**
> 
> - Deeper: pitch down a touch, a little bass, steady volume, no heavy reverb
> - Radio: less low bass, more mids, mild compression
> - Robot: distortion plus a short delay or echo
> - Telephone: cut the deep bass and the highs, keep the mids
> 
> **Need word-by-word social captions?** CapCut Desktop is the optional extra route for karaoke-style animation.

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