Transcribe to text
Speech to subtitles or a plain transcript, without sending the recording anywhere.
Your file
Drop a file here, or click to choose
It stays on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Settings
Check the transcript
What you get
- SRT is what YouTube, Vimeo, Premiere and almost every player accepts. Upload it alongside your video and viewers get switchable captions.
- VTT is the same idea for web players and the HTML
<track>element. - Plain text is the transcript with no timings, for notes, show notes, blog posts and search.
Timings come from word-level timestamps, so lines break where speech actually pauses rather than on a fixed clock.
Editing before you publish
No speech recogniser is perfect on names, jargon or crosstalk. SRT is plain text, so open the result in any editor, fix what is wrong, and either upload it as-is or burn it into the picture with the subtitle burner. That round trip is the reliable way to get captions that are actually correct.
Podcasts, interviews, lectures
Length is not limited by anything except your machine's memory and your patience: transcription runs at roughly three to six times real time, so an hour-long interview takes ten to twenty minutes. Because none of it is uploaded, this is the option that works for recordings you are not allowed to hand to a third party, like client calls, medical or legal material, and unpublished research.
Common questions
Is there a length limit?
No hard limit. The audio is held in memory, so very long recordings can strain a phone. On a desktop, an hour is comfortable.
How accurate is it?
On clear speech, the accurate model is close to a careful human transcript apart from proper nouns. Noisy or overlapping speech is harder, as it is for every recogniser. Always read it through before publishing.
Does it identify who is speaking?
No. Speaker separation is a different model than the one running here, so a two-person interview comes out as one continuous transcript.
Can it translate?
It can translate speech in another language into English subtitles: pick the spoken language and tick translate. It does not translate English into other languages.