Any video → clean text
Video to text, in seconds.
Paste a YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, X or Facebook link — or upload any video file up to 200 MB — and get every spoken word as text. Free, no sign-up.
How to convert a video to text
A video to text converter that keeps it simple
No sign-up needed
Paste a link and read the full transcript. No account, no email, no credit card.
Results in seconds
Whisper-class AI speech recognition turns a one-minute video 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 captions and blogs, or download subtitle files with timestamps for your editor.
Nothing is stored
Audio is processed in memory to generate your transcript and then discarded. Your uploads stay yours.
Works without captions
We transcribe the actual audio track, so videos with no captions or burned-in subtitles work fine.
Two ways in: paste a link or upload a file
Links are the fast path — any public Instagram Reel, video post or TikTok converts straight from its URL. For everything else there’s the upload tab: screen recordings, Zoom clips, lecture excerpts, drafts that were never posted, footage from your camera roll. If your browser can play the file, the converter can transcribe it.
Uploads are processed in memory and discarded — the file is used to generate your transcript and never stored. Long videos are transcribed in parts and stitched together automatically.
Getting the cleanest text out of a video
Speech recognition thrives on clear voice: talking-head videos, tutorials and interviews come out nearly publish-ready. Heavy background music, crosstalk and strong accents lower accuracy, so give those a quick proofread. The language is detected automatically across 90+ languages — no settings to pick before you convert.
Timestamps are worth keeping on when you plan to edit: they show exactly where each sentence lives in the video, so you can cut by reading instead of scrubbing.
From transcript to summary, translation or subtitles
The text is only the start. Built-in AI can summarize the transcript into a TL;DR or translate it into twelve languages, and the SRT/VTT export turns it into subtitle files — the subtitle generator page covers that workflow. Working from a recording instead of a video? The audio to text converter takes MP3, M4A and WAV files directly.
Working from one platform? Convert a TikTok video to text straight from a link, or paste a Reel into the Instagram transcript generator — same engine, same instant result.
Video to text — FAQ
Turn any video into text
Link or file, phone or desktop — the transcript is seconds away. Free, no sign-up.
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