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Audio and video transcriber

Turn up to 5 minutes of speech into text and captions, in 17 languages, ready to copy or download.

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  • Files deleted after 15 minutes

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    Settings

    Recordings up to 100 MB and 5 minutes.

    Your file is deleted from our server as soon as the result is made, and the result 15 minutes later.

    Result

    Preview before you download

    Add your file to begin. The result shows here.

    Turning the transcript into a video?

    Studio uses your words to cut retakes and pauses, write captions and put your numbers on screen.

    Edit a full recording free
    00:20How it works

    How to transcribe audio or video to text

    1. Add a recordingAudio or video, up to 100 MB and 5 minutes.
    2. Choose the language, or let it be detectedNaming the language is faster and avoids a wrong guess on short clips.
    3. TranscribeIt takes about as long as the recording itself.
    4. Read, copy or downloadClick any line to hear it. Copy the text, or download captions as SRT or WebVTT, a plain transcript, or word-by-word timings as JSON.
    00:30The details

    What goes in and what comes out

    Accepts
    MP4, MOV, WEBM, MKV, AVI, M4V, TS, MTS, M2TS, FLV, WMV, MPG, MPEG, VOB, 3GP, GIF, MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, OGG, OPUS, FLAC, WMA, AIFF, AMR
    Returns
    Text on the page, plus SRT, WebVTT, TXT and JSON files
    Limits
    Recordings up to 100 MB and 5 minutes.
    Privacy
    Your file is uploaded to our processing server over an encrypted connection, worked on, and deleted. The uploaded file is removed as soon as the result is ready; the result is removed 15 minutes later. Nobody looks at it and it is never used for anything else.
    Cost
    Free. No account, no watermark, no trial that runs out.
    00:35Worth knowing

    Getting a good result

    How it works, and where your audio goes

    The speech is recognized by Whisper, an open-source model, running on our own server. Your recording is not sent to any other company, and it is deleted as soon as the transcript is made.

    Captions made to be read

    The SRT and WebVTT files are built from the timing of each word. Each caption is at most two lines of 42 characters, breaks at the end of a sentence or at a pause, and stays on screen long enough to read. Those are the limits professional subtitling guides use, so the file is ready for a video without reflowing.

    What it tells you about the recording

    Alongside the words you get the speaking pace in words a minute, the number of pauses longer than 0.7 seconds with their total length, and a count of ums and uhs. That is a quick measure of how much tighter an edit could make it.

    Where it goes wrong

    Names, brand names, numbers and words that sound alike are the usual errors, and they are worse with background noise, music or people talking over each other. Read the transcript against the recording before you publish it.

    00:40Questions

    Audio and video transcriber: common questions

    Which languages does it understand?

    English, Hindi, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Indonesian, Russian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Arabic. It writes what was said in the language it was said in; it does not translate.

    How accurate is it?

    Clear speech from one person close to a microphone comes out with few errors. Accuracy drops with noise, accents the model heard less of, and crosstalk. Treat it as a first draft.

    Why only 5 minutes?

    Speech recognition is heavy work and the free tool shares one server. Studio transcribes and captions a whole recording as part of the edit, and its free plan takes files up to 2 GB.

    Does it label who is speaking?

    No. It writes the words in order without speaker names.

    How do I fix a wrong word?

    Open the captions in the caption editor: the button under the transcript carries them over.

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