MP4 videos → readable text

MP4 to text, just upload.

Drop in an MP4 — screen recording, meeting, lecture, footage — and get the full transcript of its audio in seconds. Free, no sign-up.

How to convert MP4 to text

1

Upload the MP4

Use the upload tab above — files up to 200 MB. MOV, WEBM and other browser-playable video formats work too.

2

The audio gets transcribed

The AI extracts the audio track in your browser and transcribes every word — language detected automatically.

3

Copy or export

Copy plain text, download TXT, or export SRT/VTT subtitle files with timing for your editor.

An MP4 to text converter for real footage

No sign-up needed

Upload a file and read the full transcript. No account, no email, no credit card.

Built for spoken audio

Voice memos, interviews, podcast clips, lectures — clear speech comes out nearly publish-ready.

Results in seconds

Whisper-class AI speech recognition turns a minute of audio into text in a few seconds.

90+ languages

English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese and dozens more — detected automatically.

TXT, SRT & VTT export

Copy plain text for notes and articles, or download timestamped subtitle files for video work.

Nothing is stored

Audio is processed in memory to generate your transcript and then discarded. Your recordings stay yours.

Screen recordings, meetings, raw footage

The MP4s that need transcribing are rarely on YouTube: a Zoom recording with decisions buried at minute 43, a screen demo you need to document, interview footage before the edit, a lecture download from your LMS. Upload the file and turn an hour of video into text you can search, quote and file away.

The audio track is decoded right in your browser — the whole video never leaves your machine as-is, only the audio is transcribed, and nothing is stored afterwards.

Subtitles for your edit

Editing the footage afterwards? Export SRT or VTT with sentence-level timestamps and drop the file into Premiere, DaVinci, CapCut or Final Cut — burned-in captions without typing a word yourself.

Links work too

If the video is already online, skip the download: paste a YouTube, Instagram or TikTok link into the video to text converter. Audio-only files convert through MP3 to text.

MP4 to text — FAQ

An hour of footage. A minute of reading.

Upload your first MP4 and watch it become text — free, no sign-up.

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