Turn on Single-word captions under Active word in Subs → Edit style to show only the word being spoken. Use them when you want fast, social-style captions instead of multi-word subtitle lines.
Turn on single-word captions
- Open your video in the Tella editor.
- Click Subs in the toolbar, or press
S.
- Click the settings icon on your selected subtitle style.
- Under Active word, turn on Single-word captions.
Your editor preview updates immediately. The setting also applies to shared videos on devices that support styled subtitles and to exports with burned-in subtitles. On devices where the watch-page subtitle renderer is unavailable, viewers see the browser’s default captions instead. See Style subtitles.
To return to multi-word subtitle blocks, turn Single-word captions off. You can then use Lines under Layout to choose whether each block can span one, two, or three lines.
Single-word captions and active-word effects are different. Single-word captions show one word at a time. The Text, Background, and Fade the rest effects keep the subtitle block visible while emphasizing the current word.
