From Croatian video to text
Drop in the video file without converting it: MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI, 3GP or a screen recording from your phone. The sound is pulled out on our server, and every timestamp points to the same moment in the original video. If the video is online, use Import from link: public YouTube, TikTok and Vimeo videos, Dropbox and Google Drive share links and direct file links all work. Only the audio is fetched, one video per link, and several links can wait in the queue.
The finished transcript sits next to the player. Click any line to hear it again, correct it and carry on.
Dialects and the standard
The draft is written in standard Croatian, which is based on Štokavian with ijekavian forms (mlijeko, rijeka). Kajkavian speech from Zagreb and Zagorje and Čakavian from Istria, Dalmatian islands and the coast differ in vocabulary and forms, and are usually written as standard words or misheard, so dialect-rich video needs more editing.
The model also knows Serbian and Bosnian, and occasionally picks a Serbian word or an ekavian form; read for it if your text must follow Croatian norms. Diaspora videos from Germany, Austria or Ireland mix in German or English. Clear speech gives a good draft that needs a moderate read.
Croatian videos people transcribe
Common uploads:
- Recorded lectures and classes, for notes and revision.
- Interviews filmed for a završni or diplomski rad.
- YouTube podcasts, vlogs and TikToks, for Croatian subtitles.
- News, sports interviews and press conferences, for quotes.
- Recorded meetings and webinars.
Croatian subtitles (titlovi) and exports
Export SRT or VTT for Croatian subtitles; č, ć, đ, š and ž are kept in UTF-8. Some old subtitle players expect Windows-1250 encoding and show garbled letters; switch the player to UTF-8 and they display correctly. Edit the transcript before exporting.
DOCX and PDF suit a thesis appendix or minutes. Speaker labels are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
Translation and audio recordings
Before translating, fix names of people, clubs and places; a translation repeats whatever spelling the transcript has.
The transcript is written in Croatian as it was spoken; nothing is translated. To read it in English, open the Google Translate link on the transcript, or use the AI prompt export to hand the text to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. For recordings without video, see the Croatian audio to text page.