Free video to text converter
video to text in 3 steps
- 1
Upload your video
Drop your file or click to choose. MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, and audio files.
- 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
Get your transcript
Read it in seconds, then copy or export to TXT, DOCX, PDF, or SRT.
Built for fast, accurate transcripts
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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
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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
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.
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Transcribe a fileWhat video actually is
A video file is a container wrapping two tracks: a video track and an audio track. Transcription only ever touches the audio. Typist extracts the audio track and ignores the video, so the picture itself plays no part in the transcript.
Because only the audio track is transcribed, resolution and frame rate are irrelevant. A 4K file and a 480p file with the same audio give the same transcript, word for word. What decides accuracy is the recording underneath: clear speech, low background noise, and one person talking at a time. The video quality changes the file size, not the words.
Where these files come from
Recorded calls, webinars, lectures, YouTube videos, and screen recordings. Anything with someone speaking on the soundtrack works.
- Phone video
- Zoom recordings
- YouTube
- Screen recordings
- video fileYour upload
- Video trackIgnored, resolution does not matter
- Audio decodedThe speech is what we transcribe
- TranscriptCopy or export to TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT
- Type
- Container (video + audio)
- Transcribed
- Audio track only
- Video track
- Ignored
- What matters
- Audio clarity
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