Video to Text Converter

1. Drop the video file above. MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV are accepted, up to 500 MB.
2. Turn on speaker labels for an interview, a panel or a recorded call. For a single narrator, leave them off.
3. Press Transcribe. The audio is taken from the video; the picture is never processed.
4. Read the transcript on the page and copy it, or download it. Plain text and Markdown are free. SRT and VTT subtitle files cost 2 credits, and a Word document costs 3.

The first 10 minutes of video each day are free, with no signup. A longer video is transcribed up to the 10-minute mark and the result says where it stopped; nothing is charged for that preview. The full video is $0.05 a minute (1 credit) past the free minutes, so a 25-minute tutorial costs 15 credits, or $0.75.

Only the audio track is read. Frames, resolution and codec are irrelevant to the transcript, which is why a 4K master and a 720p preview of the same footage give identical text.

Because the audio timeline is preserved, every timestamp in the transcript points at the right frame of the video, and the SRT download drops onto the timeline without adjustment.

The practical constraint is upload size rather than length. A 500 MB ceiling covers most exported videos and not many camera masters. Exporting audio only from your editor takes a minute and makes the upload nearly instant.

If a video has several audio tracks — a camera mix and a lapel mic, or several languages — the first track is used. When the transcript sounds distant or is in the wrong language, that is usually why; remux with the track you want first.

• "No speech was found in that file." The video has no audio track, which is common with screen recordings made with the microphone off, or its sound is music only. Play it with the sound on to check.
• The file is over 500 MB. Export audio only from your editor, or from QuickTime with File > Export As > Audio Only. The transcript is identical and the upload takes seconds.
• "We could not cut a free preview from this file." Some unusual video encodings cannot be trimmed to the free 10 minutes. Convert the video to MP3 and upload that, or add credits to transcribe the whole file.
• Subtitles out of step with the final cut. The timings match the file you uploaded. If you trim the start of the video afterwards, every cue shifts by the amount removed; transcribe the final export instead.
• A video on a website. This page takes files, not links. Upload a copy of a video you have the right to use.

Upload an audio or video file and the transcript appears on this page. Every paragraph carries the timestamp it came from, so you can find the moment in the original recording without scrubbing.

Speaker labels are available when the recording has more than one voice: each turn is tagged Speaker 1, Speaker 2 and so on, which is what makes interview and meeting transcripts usable rather than a single undivided block.

Files never become public. The upload is processed, the transcript is attached to your job, and nothing is indexed or shared.

Audio: MP3, M4A, WAV, AAC, FLAC, OGG, Opus, WebM, AMR and WMA.

Video: MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV — the audio track is read and the video itself is ignored, so a 2 GB screen recording transcribes the same as the audio ripped from it.

Files up to 500 MB upload directly from your browser to storage, which means a long recording is not limited by any request size cap. A 90-minute MP3 at a normal bitrate is around 80 MB; an hour of video is usually 300–700 MB.

If your file is larger than 500 MB, export audio only from your editor first. It transcribes identically and uploads in a fraction of the time.

Every format is uploaded as-is; converting first adds nothing, and a careless conversion at the wrong sample rate can hurt.

• WAV is about 10 MB a minute in stereo at 44.1 kHz, so an hour can pass 500 MB. Export it as 16 kHz mono, the rate the models use internally, and it drops to about 2 MB a minute with no loss of accuracy.
• FLAC is lossless at roughly half the size of WAV; an hour of stereo is about 300 MB. Worth keeping as a master you can transcribe again later, though it is barely more accurate than a good MP3.
• MOV from an editor or a ProRes export can run to gigabytes. Export audio only (Command-E in QuickTime) and upload that. A screen recording with no audio track gets a clear error, not an empty transcript.
• WebM from a browser recorder often has a missing or zero duration header. The length is measured from the decoded audio, so timestamps come out right anyway.
• OGG and Opus are what WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal voice notes use. They transcribe well even at low bitrates. Share a WhatsApp note to Files rather than forwarding it, so it is not re-encoded.
• AAC streams without an MP4 wrapper decode directly. If a capture was cut off mid-frame, the last second or two may be missing.
• AMR is narrowband phone audio (300 Hz to 3.4 kHz). Ordinary speech comes through; names, spelled-out addresses and digits are where it slips, so check them against the recording.
• WMA usually means an old dictaphone recording. Expect a few points less accuracy than a modern phone recording, and try one file before paying for an archive. DRM-protected WMA cannot be read by any tool.

Ten minutes of audio a day, across up to three files, cost nothing. You see the transcript, the timestamps, the summary, and you can copy all of it.

When a file is longer than your remaining free minutes, the transcript stops at that point and says exactly where it stopped. Nothing is charged and nothing is hidden behind a signup form — you get a real result for the first ten minutes rather than a blurred teaser.

To transcribe the whole file, add credits. Credits are bought once, never expire, and work across every tool on this site. At $0.05 a minute (1 credit), a 45-minute interview costs $2.25 (45 credits) at the $5-pack rate, or about $1.93 from the $12 pack.

A two-person interview transcribed without speaker separation is nearly useless: you cannot tell a question from an answer without listening again.

With speaker labels on, each change of voice starts a new paragraph tagged with a speaker number. Rename them in your own document afterwards — the DOCX download puts speaker names in bold at the start of each turn precisely so a find-and-replace turns Speaker 1 into a real name in two keystrokes.

Diarisation is not magic. Two people talking over each other, a poor phone line, or someone joining halfway through are all cases where labels drift. Fix the three or four places it matters and leave the rest.

On a clear recording with one or two speakers, expect 92–97% word accuracy. That means roughly one wrong word per two lines, usually a name, a unit, or a technical term.

Things that reliably hurt accuracy: recording from across a room, air conditioning or traffic, several people speaking at once, strong accents in a language the model sees less of, and music underneath speech.

Things that help, and cost you nothing: record at arm's length rather than across a table, use the phone's own voice memo app rather than a video call recording where possible, and say proper nouns clearly the first time they come up.

Before you publish or submit anything, check names, numbers and any sentence you intend to quote. The timestamps make that a minute of work rather than a re-listen.

Upload the video, download the SRT, drop it on the timeline. The cues are split on natural sentence boundaries with millisecond timing, which is what Premiere, Final Cut, Resolve, CapCut and every web player expect.

VTT is the same content in the format HTML5 video wants, with speaker names as voice tags so a player can style each speaker differently.

Subtitle files always need a human pass — line lengths, a mis-heard brand name, a laugh transcribed as a word. Editing an SRT that is 95% right takes a few minutes. Typing one from scratch takes an hour per ten minutes of footage.