ENGLISH SPEECH → PLAIN TEXT

Video to text.

Choose a video or audio file

English WAV, MP3, MP4 or WebM. One file at a time. Browser codec and memory limits vary.

Choose a file to begin.

Audio and video stay on your device. Only the recognition model and runtime are downloaded; your media is never uploaded.

What to expect

This page gives you reading text, split into paragraphs. It does not create subtitle timing. The transcription runs locally in overlapping 30-second windows. There is no fixed duration or file-size cutoff in this tool; a browser may still run out of memory. For video, the browser reads the audio during normal-speed local playback before transcription starts.

English only. The pinned model's encoder and decoder weights total 40,843,851 bytes (38.95 MiB), measured from the model files, plus tokenizer and runtime downloads. On this Windows test machine with a cached model, this page took 53 seconds for a 3-minute synthetic English recording and 182 seconds for a 10-minute recording. The latter produced 24 paragraphs and flagged one interval with no recognized speech. Your device and recording may differ.

The model can mishear words or miss quiet passages. Review the result against your source. If you need timed SRT or VTT instead, use auto captions. For existing subtitle files, use VTT to SRT, SRT to VTT, Text to SRT, SRT to TXT, VTT to TXT, the subtitle converter, ASS to SRT, SUP to SRT, the CPS checker, or the subtitle editor.

Put subtitles on a video

Have an MP4 and timed SRT or VTT? Add subtitles to video with a switchable text track or visible burn-in, entirely in your browser.

Extract tracks from an MKV

Have a video with embedded subtitles? Extract subtitles from MKV in your browser, then download one subtitle track or a ZIP of supported tracks.

Translate English subtitles

Need a Spanish subtitle file? Translate English VTT to Spanish VTT in your browser, review each cue, and download a VTT file.

Translate an SRT file

For English .srt in and Spanish .srt out, use the SRT translator. Compare and correct each cue before downloading; timestamps stay in place.

Translate speech from a video

For an English or Spanish MP4, create editable timed subtitles locally with the video subtitle translator. Review the generated text and download SRT or VTT; the video itself is not changed.

Translate a pasted timed transcript

If you have timestamped English text from a YouTube transcript, the YouTube subtitle translator makes editable Spanish SRT or VTT locally. It does not fetch a YouTube URL or scrape captions.