Bring the media in
Drop a file, paste a public link, or open the mic. No format conversion, nothing to install, no desktop app.
Transcribe Video to Text Online
From a file, a link, or live.
Convert video to text online — upload a file, paste a YouTube or TikTok link, or record live. Audio to text works the same way: an editable transcript with speaker labels, then export TXT, SRT or VTT in 99+ languages.
Drop audio or video here
Choose a file from your device and turn it into an editable transcript.
Choose a fileMP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV, WebM and more
No conversion neededAuto language detection10 free minutes a month
Need to record?Start live transcription99+ Languages
Speaker Labels
5 Export Formats
Translation
AI Summary
How to Convert Video to Text in 3 Steps
Most tools stop at the raw transcript. The work that actually takes time — correcting names, timing the captions, pulling the quotes — happens right here, next to the audio.
Let it transcribe
Speech recognition returns timestamped segments with the speakers already separated, so a two-hour panel arrives readable.
Finish it here
Fix a word, rename a speaker, retime a caption, ask for a summary — then export. The last mile happens beside the audio.
Upload a File, Paste a Link, or Record Live
Whatever the recording already is, it can start here without being converted, downloaded or re-uploaded first.
Upload a file
MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV and WebM go straight in. The audio never has to be pulled out of the video first.
MP3 · WAV · M4A · MP4 · MOV · WebM
Paste a link
A public URL is enough — no download, no re-upload, no screen recording as a workaround.
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Record live
Open the mic for a meeting, an interview or a lecture and watch the text land while the room is still talking.
Up to 50 MB per recording
Open the recorder
Edit Your Transcript in Place
A raw block of text is the easy half. Everything that makes it usable — the corrections, the speaker names, the caption timing — is in the same window as the audio.
- Edit where you read — Every segment is editable in place, next to the player. Click a line, hear the moment, correct the word.
- Rename a speaker once — Speaker turns are separated automatically and renaming one updates every line they say.
- Captions you can retime — The timestamped segments are the subtitle track. Adjust the timing and the wording until review passes.
- Leave in five formats — TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, JSON — the same corrected text, shaped for wherever it is going next.
AI Summary, Outline and Q&A
Every AI action reads the version you corrected. Fix a name once and every summary, outline and answer after it is right too.
- Summary — The short version of a long recording, in a paragraph.
- Outline — A structured breakdown you can paste straight into notes.
- Action items — Owners only when they were named, deadlines only when they were stated.
- Ask the transcript — Put a question to the recording and get the answer, or a plain "it is not in here".
- Translate — Into any of 99+ languages, the subtitle track included.
What People Transcribe With ScribeTo
Nobody wants a transcript for its own sake. They want show notes by Friday, a quote they can cite, captions before the clip goes out.
Turn an episode into show notes
Transcript, summary and chapter-worthy quotes from one upload.
Quote a video without rewatching it
Paste the link, search the text, cite the timestamp.
Caption a clip before it ships
Retime and reword in place, then export SRT or VTT.
Leave a meeting with the notes done
Record in the browser, get action items on the way out.
Search a lecture for the one line you need
A three-hour recording becomes text you can Ctrl-F.
Build an interview archive you can search
Every interview transcribed, speaker-labelled and exportable.
Video to Text in 99+ Languages
Below are the main languages we support for transcription and subtitles. The set you can transcribe from is the set you can translate into.
English
Simplified Chinese
Spanish
French
German
Japanese
Portuguese
Arabic
ScribeTo vs a Basic Transcription Tool
Every online video to text converter has the recognition step — that part is table stakes. The difference is everything that comes after it.
A tool that stops at the raw transcript
ScribeTo
Fixing a mistranscribed name
Export first, then fix it somewhere else
Fix it in place, beside the audio
Who said what
Speaker 1, Speaker 2, forever
Rename once, every line updates
Caption timing
Line it up by hand after export
Segments are the track — retime them directly
AI summary
Built from the raw recognition output
Built from the transcript after you corrected it
Privacy and Data Security
We are new, so instead of a trust badge we have not earned, here is exactly what the system does with your recordings.
Your files, your account
Every transcript is scoped to the account that created it. A request for someone else’s task is rejected before it reaches the database.
Stored in Cloudflare R2
Media lives in object storage, not in the page and not on a third-party host. Playback runs through short-lived signed links.
Only what the task needs
The speech provider receives the audio for the job and nothing else — no account, no history, no other files.
Delete it whenever
Remove a transcript and its media at any point. Media also carries an expiry, and share links die with it rather than outliving the file.
Affordable Transcription Pricing
Every plan includes the full workspace. What changes is how much you can run through it — the free tier already covers one end-to-end pass.
Free
Great for trying the whole workflow once.
$0
No credit card required
Get started- 10 transcription minutes per month
- 2 link transcriptions per month
- 3 AI actions — summary, outline, Q&A, translation
- Unlimited uploads and live recording
- Speaker labels and clickable timestamps
- Transcription in 99+ languages
- Export TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, JSON
- Editable subtitle tracks, SRT and VTT
Plus
For regular transcription work, week to week.
$19.99 / month
$219.90 / year if billed yearly
Subscribe now- 450 transcription minutes per month
- 20 link transcriptions per month
- 30 AI actions — summary, outline, Q&A, translation
- Unlimited uploads and live recording
- Speaker labels and clickable timestamps
- Mixed-language transcription
- Transcription in 99+ languages
- Export TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, JSON
- Editable subtitle tracks, SRT and VTT
Pro
For high-volume archives, teams and agencies.
$59.99 / month
$679.90 / year if billed yearly
Subscribe now- 1400 transcription minutes per month
- 60 link transcriptions per month
- 100 AI actions — summary, outline, Q&A, translation
- Unlimited uploads and live recording
- Speaker labels and clickable timestamps
- Mixed-language transcription
- Transcription in 99+ languages
- Export TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, JSON
- Editable subtitle tracks, SRT and VTT
Frequently Asked Questions
Accuracy, supported links, export formats and what the free tier actually covers.
How accurate is video to text transcription?+
Clean speech in a quiet room comes back close to publishable. Heavy accents, crosstalk and background noise cost accuracy — which is why every transcript stays editable beside the audio instead of being handed to you as final.
Can I convert video to text from a file, a link, or the microphone?+
All three. Upload MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV or WebM; paste a public link; or record live in the browser.
Which links are supported?+
Public URLs from TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, X, Facebook, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, plus RSS podcast feeds. Anything else is rejected before it reaches the transcriber.
What formats can I export?+
TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, JSON. Subtitles come out as SRT or VTT with the timing you approved; there is no DOCX or PDF export today.
What exactly does the free tier include?+
Ten transcription minutes a month, plus a small allowance of link transcriptions and AI actions so every part of the product can be tried before paying. Uploading and live recording work on the free tier without any allowance.
Can one transcript produce subtitles and a translation?+
Yes. The timestamped segments are the single source — correct them once, then export SRT or VTT for captions and translate the same text into any of 99+ languages.
Do the AI answers come from the audio or from my edits?+
From your corrected transcript. Fix a name or a term once and every summary, outline and answer after that uses the corrected version.
Who can see my recordings?+
Your files and transcripts belong to your account. Media is stored in Cloudflare R2 and only the data needed to complete a task is passed to the speech providers that process it — the details are in the Privacy Policy.
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A file, a link or the microphone. 10 minutes a month are free, and nothing about the workspace is held back.