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ApsaraVideo Live:AddLiveAISubtitle

Last Updated:Aug 15, 2025

You can call the AddLiveAISubtitle operation to add a caption template.

Operation description

Usage notes

  • You can use this operation to add a live caption template. The template describes the caption content, layout, and other information.

  • After you add a caption template, you must also call the AddLiveAIProduceRules operation to add a caption rule. After you restart the stream ingest, the playback stream will contain captions.

  • The real-time caption feature is available only in the China (Beijing), China (Shanghai), Singapore, Indonesia (Jakarta), and Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) regions.

Important

The real-time caption feature is in public preview. Each user can add a maximum of 300 caption templates. The feature is free of charge during the public preview. You will be charged for the feature after the public preview ends. The end date will be announced separately.

QPS limits

The queries per second (QPS) limit for this operation is 60 calls per second for each user. If you exceed the limit, your API calls will be throttled. This may affect your business. Plan your calls accordingly. For more information, see QPS limits.

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RAM authorization

The table below describes the authorization required to call this API. You can define it in a Resource Access Management (RAM) policy. The table's columns are detailed below:

  • Action: The actions can be used in the Action element of RAM permission policy statements to grant permissions to perform the operation.

  • API: The API that you can call to perform the action.

  • Access level: The predefined level of access granted for each API. Valid values: create, list, get, update, and delete.

  • Resource type: The type of the resource that supports authorization to perform the action. It indicates if the action supports resource-level permission. The specified resource must be compatible with the action. Otherwise, the policy will be ineffective.

    • For APIs with resource-level permissions, required resource types are marked with an asterisk (*). Specify the corresponding Alibaba Cloud Resource Name (ARN) in the Resource element of the policy.

    • For APIs without resource-level permissions, it is shown as All Resources. Use an asterisk (*) in the Resource element of the policy.

  • Condition key: The condition keys defined by the service. The key allows for granular control, applying to either actions alone or actions associated with specific resources. In addition to service-specific condition keys, Alibaba Cloud provides a set of common condition keys applicable across all RAM-supported services.

  • Dependent action: The dependent actions required to run the action. To complete the action, the RAM user or the RAM role must have the permissions to perform all dependent actions.

Action

Access level

Resource type

Condition key

Dependent action

live:AddLiveAISubtitle

create

*All Resource

*

None None

Request parameters

Parameter

Type

Required

Description

Example

RegionId

string

No

The region ID.

cn-shanghai

SubtitleName

string

Yes

The name of the caption template. The name can contain only digits, uppercase letters, lowercase letters, and hyphens (-). A hyphen cannot be the first character.

sub01

SrcLanguage

string

Yes

The source language. Valid values:

  • en-US: English

  • zh-CN: Chinese

  • ru-RU: Russian

zh-CN

DstLanguage

string

No

The destination language for translation. Valid values:

  • en-US: English

  • zh-CN: Chinese

  • es-ES: Spanish

  • ru-RU: Russian

zh-CN

FontColor

string

No

The font color in RGBA format.

0xFFFFFF

FontName

string

No

The font. Valid values:

  • KaiTi: KaiTi font. This is the default value.

  • AlibabaPuHuiTi-Regular: Alibaba PuHuiTi Regular

  • AlibabaPuHuiTi-Bold: Alibaba PuHuiTi Bold

  • AlibabaPuHuiTi-Light: Alibaba PuHuiTi Light

  • NotoSansHans-Regular: Noto Sans CJK SC Regular

  • NotoSansHans-Bold: Noto Sans CJK SC Bold

  • NotoSansHans-Light: Noto Sans CJK SC Light

KaiTi

BgColor

string

No

The background color of the captions in RGBA format.

0xFF0000

PositionNormalized

array

Yes

The position of the captions.

number

No

The position of the captions. The coordinates are based on the x-axis and y-axis, with the origin (0,0) at the lower-left corner of the screen.

Note

The x and y coordinates must be normalized. The actual values are calculated by multiplying the normalized values by the video height. For example, if the video height is 720p and you set PositionNormalized to [0.1,0.5], the actual position of the captions is at x = 72 and y = 360.

[0.32,0.27]

ShowSourceLan

boolean

No

Specifies whether to display the source language. The default value is false.

true

MaxLines

integer

No

The number of lines to display.

2

WordPerLine

integer

Yes

The number of characters to display per line. Valid values: 1 to 500.

20

FontSizeNormalized

number

Yes

The font size. Valid values: 0 to 1.

0.037

BorderWidthNormalized

number

No

The font weight. Valid values: 0 to 1.

0.05

BgWidthNormalized

number

No

The size of the caption background. Valid values: 0 to 1.

0.09

CopyFrom

string

No

The caption template from which to copy the settings. Set this parameter to the name of the source template.

sub01

Description

string

No

The custom description of the caption template. The description can contain Chinese characters, English letters, digits, and special characters. The description can be up to 128 characters in length.

live AI subtitle template

Width

string

No

The width of the preview video, in pixels.

1280

Height

string

No

The height of the preview video, in pixels.

The preview video resolution (Width × Height) must be one of the following:

  • Landscape LD (360p): 640 × 360

  • Portrait LD (360p): 360 × 640

  • Landscape SD (480p): 854 × 480

  • Portrait SD (480p): 480 × 854

  • Landscape HD (720p): 1280 × 720

  • Portrait HD (720p): 720 × 1280

  • Landscape FHD (1080p): 1920 × 1080

  • Portrait FHD (1080p): 1080 × 1920

720

Response parameters

Parameter

Type

Description

Example

object

RequestId

string

The request ID.

5c6a2a0df228-4a64-af62-20e91b96****

SubtitleId

string

The ID of the caption template.

445409ec-7eaa-461d-8f29-4bec2eb9****

Examples

Success response

JSON format

{
  "RequestId": "5c6a2a0df228-4a64-af62-20e91b96****",
  "SubtitleId": "445409ec-7eaa-461d-8f29-4bec2eb9****"
}

Error codes

HTTP status code

Error code

Error message

Description

400 InvalidParameter %s. Parameter error
400 MissingParameter %s. Missing parameter
400 InvalidParameter.Malformed There are invalid parameters: %s. There are invalid parameters: %s.

See Error Codes for a complete list.

Release notes

See Release Notes for a complete list.