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Video to Text — AI Transcription

Convert video to accurate, timestamped text with AI in 70+ languages. Perfect for show notes, subtitles, search, and accessibility.

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Timestamped transcript
70+ languages

How it works

1

Upload your video

Interviews, podcasts, lectures, meetings, voice notes.

2

AI transcribes it

Auto-detects the language and produces accurate, timestamped text.

3

Edit, search, or export

Copy text, jump to any word, or keep editing by chatting.

Why use it

High accuracy

Modern AI speech recognition, even with accents and noise.

Word timestamps

Click to jump; cut audio by editing the text.

Subtitle-ready

A clean base for captions and SRT.

70+ languages

Auto-detection across most major languages.

Private

Runs in our own Google Cloud.

Edit by chatting

Cut filler words or sections right after transcribing.

Made for

PodcastersJournalistsStudentsResearchersContent creatorsAccessibility

Why convert video to text?

Search engines can’t read video — transcribing it makes the content searchable, accessible, and reusable as notes, articles, or subtitles.

Transcripts here are timestamped at the word level, so you can jump to any moment and, in the AI editor, cut audio simply by deleting words from the text.

How video-to-text transcription works

Upload a video and the AI auto-detects the spoken language, segments the recording on natural pauses, and transcribes each segment with word-level timestamps. You get clean, readable text where every word maps back to the exact moment it was spoken — short clips finish in seconds, long files in a few minutes.

It runs inside the Notevibes AI editor, so the transcript stays linked to the original recording and becomes the control surface for editing it.

What a transcript unlocks

Search engines can't read video — a transcript makes the content searchable, accessible, and reusable. Publish it as show notes or a blog post, generate SRT subtitles from the timestamps, quote it in an article, or build a searchable archive of everything you've recorded.

Accuracy, languages, and audio quality

Transcription covers 70+ languages with automatic detection, and handles accents, multiple speakers, and background noise. Cleaner source audio transcribes more accurately, so a good mic helps — and if a file is noisy, running it through the background-noise remover first noticeably improves the result.

From transcript to a finished edit

Because the text and the audio are linked, you can edit the recording by editing the words: delete a sentence to cut that audio, strip filler words and pauses, or remove a section — all by editing text or describing the change. Every edit is saved as a version, so you can transcribe, clean up, and export without opening a waveform editor.

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Frequently asked

How accurate is it?

Modern AI speech recognition, accurate even with accents and some background noise.

Are there timestamps?

Yes — word-level, so you can jump to any moment and cut audio by editing text.

What formats are supported?

MP4, MOV, MKV, and WEBM video, plus audio files like MP3 and WAV.

Can I transcribe audio too?

Yes — both audio and video are supported.

How many languages?

Over 70, with automatic language detection.

Is it free?

Short clips are free to preview; sign in for full-length files.

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