Free tool · Transcription
Free audio to text, with speakers and timings.
Drop a recording or a video, or paste a link, and get a transcript that knows who said what and when. 25 minutes free when you sign up, exported as text, SRT or VTT subtitles.
- Free: 25 minutes of audio or video
- No card, no time limit
- A free account is all it takes: no card, and the tool opens with this already in place.
01How it works
Three steps, start to finish.
- Step 1
Add the media
A file from your computer or a link to a video or a recording.
- Step 2
Transcribe
Speakers are told apart and every sentence is timed. The language is detected for you.
- Step 3
Export or reuse
Download text, SRT or VTT, or turn the transcript into a script to voice or dub.
02Made for
Where people use it.
- PodcastsA host, a guest, a whole show“Welcome back to Field Notes. Today: why cities are getting quieter.”A 30-minute episode ≈ 4,500 credits
- YouTube & videoVoiceovers paced to your cut“Three years ago, this valley was underwater.”A 10-minute voiceover ≈ 1,500 credits
- E-learning & trainingLessons people finish“In this lesson, we'll look at how compound interest works.”A 10-module course ≈ 7,500 credits
03Details
What the free plan covers.
- Free to start
- 25 minutes of audio or video.
- Languages
- 90+ languages, detected automatically.
- Speakers
- Who said what, labelled and editable.
- Exports
- Plain text, SRT and VTT subtitles, with timings.
- Then
- Turn a transcript into a Studio script, or dub it into another language.
04Questions
Before you start.
Transcribing an hour of audio by hand takes four to six hours. An AI transcript takes minutes and gets most of the way there. Here's how to get an accurate one, and what to do with it afterwards.
What the free plan covers
Transcription costs 40 credits a minute and a free account starts with 1,000 credits: 25 minutes of audio or video, charged by the second. The transcript is kept in your account, with speakers labelled and every sentence timed.
Get a cleaner transcript
Accuracy depends mostly on the recording. A close microphone in a quiet room beats an expensive microphone across a table.
- If the recording is noisy, remove the background noise first.
- Say which language it is if you know; it's detected either way.
- Names and jargon are the usual mistakes. Fix them once in the transcript before exporting.
Subtitles from a transcript
Download the transcript as SRT or VTT and you have subtitles timed to the sentence, ready for YouTube or any video editor. Captions make a video watchable on mute, which is how most social video is watched, and give search engines the words in your video.
What else a transcript is for
A transcript can become a script: open it in the Studio to re-voice a recording, or dub the video into another language in the same voice. For show notes and articles, the plain text export is the starting point.
Try it on your own work.
1,000 free credits to try everything. No card needed, and nothing to install.
Start free: 1,000 credits