Free AI subtitle generator

Free video to SRT converter

Turn any video into a timed SRT. We read the audio track and return subtitle cues that sync to your footage

3 AI models

4 free export formats

99 languages

Transcribe audio and video in 99 languages

  • English
  • Español
  • 中文
  • Français
  • Deutsch
  • 日本語
  • Русский
  • Português
  • Italiano
  • 한국어
  • العربية
  • हिन्दी
  • Türkçe
  • Polski
  • Nederlands
  • Български
  • বাংলা
  • Čeština
  • Dansk
  • Ελληνικά
  • فارسی
  • Suomi
  • עברית
  • Magyar
  • Bahasa Indonesia
  • മലയാളം
  • Română
  • Svenska
  • Kiswahili
  • தமிழ்
  • తెలుగు
  • ไทย
  • Українська
  • اردو
  • Tiếng Việt
How it works

video to srt in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Upload your video

    Drop your file or click to choose. MP4, MOV, WebM, MP3, M4A, and more.

  2. 2

    Pick language and model

    Auto-detect the language or choose from 99. Use free Turbo for speed, or Studio for the best accuracy.

  3. 3

    Export your subtitles

    Read the transcript in seconds, then export timestamped SRT subtitles ready for any editor.

Why Typist

Built for fast, accurate transcripts

An hour in about a minute

Groq-served Turbo runs at roughly 200x real time, so your transcript is ready almost immediately

Every export, free

Download as plain text, Word, PDF, or timestamped SRT subtitles on every plan

Your file stays yours

Uploaded only to transcribe, removed afterward, and never sold, shared, or used to train models

99 languages

Auto-detected or pick your own, with the most accurate model recommended per language

Beyond transcription

Your transcript is just the start

  • AI summary and key moments

    One tap turns the transcript into a TL;DR, key quotes, and action items.

  • Auto chapters

    Long recordings are split into navigable chapters you can jump between.

  • Share or export anywhere

    Send a clean public link, or export to TXT, DOCX, PDF, or SRT.

Summary
Chapters
IntroKey pointsQ&AWrap-up

Ready to turn video into subtitles?

Drop a file and read your transcript in seconds. Free to start, no signup.

Transcribe a file
The format

What video actually is

An SRT is a plain-text subtitle file of numbered cues, each with a start and end timecode and the caption text. A video file wraps a picture track and an audio track, and only the audio matters for subtitles. Typist transcribes that audio with word-level timing and writes cues that line up with the footage.

Typist reads the audio track only and ignores the picture, so resolution, frame rate, and codec of the video make no difference to the subtitles. MP4, MOV, and WebM all work. Cue boundaries are set from word-level timing, then the words are grouped into short readable lines instead of one long block.

Where these files come from

Recorded videos of any kind: phone footage, screen recordings, webinars, course videos, and YouTube downloads you want captioned.

  • Videos
  • YouTube
  • Webinars
  • Podcasts
How video becomes textWe use the audio track and ignore the video
  1. video fileYour upload
  2. Video trackIgnored, resolution does not matter
  3. Audio decodedThe speech is what we transcribe
  4. TranscriptCopy or export to TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT
Output
SRT subtitles
Timing
Word-level
Lines
~42 chars
Works with
Any editor
Subtitles

Timed captions, ready for your editor

structure a short video
captions.srt
100:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,400In this lesson we will cover
200:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,800how to structure a short video
300:00:06,800 --> 00:00:10,200so people watch to the end

Loads into your tools

  • CapCut
  • Premiere Pro
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • YouTube Studio
  • Final Cut Pro
  • VLC

Readable on screen

Typist re-segments long speech into short timed lines of about 42 characters, at most two lines per cue, so captions read cleanly over your footage. A whole spoken paragraph never lands in one cue.

FAQ

Questions about converting to text