Turn any video into a finished, captioned MP4 with Yaps desktop. Yaps transcribes speech locally, aligns captions to the spoken words, and offers a curated set of caption styles — bold social highlights, karaoke sweeps, lower thirds, editorial serif, typewriter reveals, and cinematic frost. Review and correct wording by caption ID, replace repeated mistakes, split or merge captions, change the style, then burn everything into a new video without touching the source. The plugin checks Yaps, sign-in, trial or Yaps Pro access, the local model, and FFmpeg readiness first. It produces a finished captioned video rather than only a separate .srt file. Requires a local-capable ChatGPT Desktop Work or Codex session; ChatGPT web and cloud sessions cannot reach the installed Yaps engine. Users can also run the feature directly in Yaps.
Install
- 1Add it in ChatGPT
Open Plugins in the ChatGPT sidebar (web or desktop), search for “Yaps Video Captions” and select +. You'll be asked to sign in to any connected service on first use. Then type @ in a chat to call it.
Skills 1
- Yaps Video Captions
Add captions to any video
Things to ask
- “Add Bold Highlight captions to demo.mp4 and export a new MP4.”
- “Add TikTok-style captions to my clip and export a new MP4.”
- “Correct the names in this video's captions, then render the finished video.”
Disconnect or uninstall
- 1In ChatGPT
Disconnect an account in Settings → Apps or Plugins. To remove the plugin itself, open Yaps Video Captions in the Plugin Directory and select Uninstall plugin. Uninstalling can disconnect every account connected through it, and plugins your workspace installs may not offer the option.
- 2In Codex
Run /plugins in the Codex CLI, select the plugin and uninstall it, or press Space to turn it off.