Video to Text: Transcribe Video to Text Online, Free

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To turn a video into text, upload the file or paste its link here. We pull the audio out of the video and transcribe it into a timestamped transcript, which a free account can copy or download. The first 30 minutes are free with no signup, and a 29-minute video typically takes 33 seconds.

Last updated November 14, 2026 · How we measure speed and accuracy

Why use Video to Text?

Any Video Format

Upload MP4, MOV, WebM, AVI, MKV, and more, or paste a link. We extract the audio and transcribe it automatically.

Timestamped Output

Get precise timestamps for every sentence, perfect for creating subtitles or navigating long videos.

Speaker Labels

See who said what in interviews, meetings and panels. Speaker labels come with paid plans and passes.

Subtitle Ready

Export directly as SRT or VTT subtitle files, ready to upload to YouTube, Vimeo, or any video platform.

How it works

Upload Your Video

Drag and drop your video file or click to browse, or paste a video link. We support MP4, MOV, WebM, AVI, MKV, and more.

Audio Extraction & Transcription

We automatically extract the audio track from your video and run it through our AI transcription engine.

Download Your Transcript

Get your text with timestamps. Download TXT free, or SRT and VTT subtitles with paid plans, the Weekly Pass or your first file.

How to transcribe a video to text

Transcribe a video to text in four steps

Upload the video file (MP4, MOV, WebM, AVI, MKV, WMV or FLV), or press Paste a URL and paste a YouTube, Vimeo, Loom or Google Drive address. You do not need to convert the video to audio first.
Leave the language on automatic detection, or pick the spoken language for the most reliable result.
Read the transcript on screen: each line starts with the time it was said in the video.
Copy the text, or download it. TXT is free with a free account; Word, PDF, SRT and VTT come with your first file, the Weekly Pass, a minutes top-up or a paid plan.

What the finished transcript looks like

A real result from our premium engine, on a public-domain NASA recording.

Video to text result: AI summary, key points, export buttons and a timestamped transcript with speaker names — Speaker labels, key points and Word, SRT and VTT exports come with paid plans and passes. Free transcripts have the same timestamps and text.

Open the full sample transcript

How fast and how accurate: our measured numbers

A 29-minute video typically finishes in 33 seconds.

Wait times below are from upload to finished transcript, for files on our premium engine between September 20, 2026 to October 19, 2026. We publish the slow end too: 9 in 10 files finished within the time in the fourth column.

File length	Typical file	Median wait	9 in 10 done within	Files measured
Under 10 minutes	3 min	13 seconds	49 seconds	1,093
10 to 60 minutes	29 min	33 seconds	2 min 19 s	2,016
1 to 3 hours	61 min	2 min 10 s	6 min 45 s	226

Word error rate by language

About 1 word in 20 needs a fix in English (4.8% word error rate).

Word error rate is the share of words a transcript gets wrong. These come from public test sets of read speech, run on October 20, 2026. Clean recordings do better than the average video; noisy ones do worse. Hindi and Arabic are clearly weaker, so check those transcripts closely.

Language (test set)	Premium engine	Standard engine
English	4.8%	6.6%
Spanish	2.2%	2.6%
French	2.8%	4.7%
German	2.9%	5.0%
Portuguese	2.8%	4.0%
Hindi	21.7%	31.4%
Arabic	17.1%	17.6%

How we measured speed and accuracy

Free limits, stated plainly

	No account	Free account	Paid plan or pass
Video upload size	100 MB	1 GB	5 GB
Minutes transcribed per video	First 30	Up to 30 (first file up to 60)	The whole video
Video links	Up to 3 hours long	Up to 3 hours long	Up to 24 hours long
Speaker labels	No	No	Yes
Copy and download	Read on screen	Copy, TXT (first file: every format)	TXT, Word, PDF, SRT, VTT, JSON

To remember: a phone video over 100 MB needs a free account, or paste its link if it is online.

Video to transcript, subtitles or notes: pick the output

You want	Use	Export
A readable transcript of the video	This page	TXT, Word or PDF
Subtitles or closed captions	Subtitle Generator	SRT or VTT
The words burned into the picture	Add Subtitles to Video	A new MP4
A summary or key points	Video Summarizer	Text
The text in another language	Translate Video	TXT, SRT or VTT

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Other ways to get text from a video

Method	Good for	Watch out for
Upload or paste the link here	Any video file or public link, any of 99+ languages	Free files stop at 30 minutes without an account
YouTube's own transcript panel	Reading along on YouTube	Only videos with captions; copying loses the structure
Typing it yourself	Very short clips	Several hours of typing per hour of video
Your phone's voice typing	Dictating notes	Does not take a video file; you would replay the audio into the microphone

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Accuracy, and where it drops

Clear speech close to the microphone transcribes best. Music under the voice, several people talking at once, strong background noise and unusual names cause most of the errors, so read the transcript and fix what matters before you publish it.

When speakers overlap, pick the spoken language instead of automatic detection and upload the best-quality copy of the video you have: a re-encoded or screen-recorded copy loses detail in the audio.

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Frequently asked questions

We support all major video formats including MP4, MOV, WebM, AVI, MKV, WMV, and FLV, plus links to YouTube, Vimeo, Loom and Google Drive videos. The first 30 minutes of any video are transcribed for free.

Yes. After transcription you can export the transcript as SRT or VTT subtitle files, ready to upload to any video platform. Subtitle exports come with your first file, the Weekly Pass, a minutes top-up or a paid plan.

Without an account, the first 30 minutes of any video are transcribed free: uploads up to 100 MB, or a link to a video up to 3 hours long. A free account takes uploads up to 1 GB and files up to 30 minutes each, and your first file can run up to 60 minutes. Full-length videos come with the Weekly Pass, a minutes top-up or a paid plan.

We extract the audio track from your video file, then run it through our AI transcription engine. The entire process is automatic.

Yes. Paste the YouTube link in the box above instead of uploading a file. Vimeo, Loom and Google Drive links work the same way, and you do not need to download the video first.

On a public English test set our premium engine got 4.8% of words wrong, about 1 word in 20, measured on October 20, 2026. Real videos vary: music under the voice, people talking over each other and heavy accents add errors, so read the transcript before you publish it.

Usually less than a minute. For files between 10 and 60 minutes long on our premium engine, the median wait from upload to finished transcript was 33 seconds (2,016 files, September 20, 2026 to October 19, 2026).

Yes. Fix any word in the editor while you listen, then copy the text or download it. TXT is free with a free account; Word (DOCX), PDF, SRT and VTT come with your first file, the Weekly Pass, a minutes top-up or a paid plan.

TXT if you want to read, quote or paste the words. SRT or VTT if the text goes back onto the video as subtitles, because they keep the timing of every line. JSON if you are a developer and need word-level timestamps.