How a Czech video becomes text
Upload the video file as it is: MP4, MOV, M4V, WEBM, MKV, AVI or a phone screen recording. There is no need to convert it to audio first; the sound is taken out on our side and the timestamps stay aligned with the original video. If the video is on YouTube or TikTok, choose Import from link and paste the public link instead, and only the audio is fetched.
The transcript opens beside a player. Click a line to hear it, correct the word in place and move on. Several videos can be uploaded at once, which helps with a lecture series or a batch of recorded interviews.
Spoken Czech versus written Czech
Most Czech videos use obecná čeština, the everyday spoken form: dobrý den becomes dobrej den, mlýn becomes mlejn, and okno may sound like vokno. The model sometimes writes the spoken form and sometimes the standard spelling. For subtitles, spoken forms often read naturally; for a report or thesis appendix, people usually standardise to spisovná čeština while reviewing.
Diacritics are kept throughout: háček (č, ř, š, ž, ě) and čárka (á, é, í, ú, ý), plus ů. Exports are UTF-8, so the letters survive in Word, PDF and subtitle files. Slovak speakers in a Czech video are usually understood but written with Czech-like spelling; for a mostly Slovak video, use the Slovak page instead.
Common Czech video jobs
What people bring:
- Recorded lectures and seminars, for notes and study material.
- Interviews filmed for a bakalářská or diplomová práce, which need a written transcript in the appendix.
- YouTube videos and podcasts filmed on camera, for Czech subtitles and show notes.
- Recorded Teams or Zoom meetings, for minutes and action items.
- Webinars and training videos, to turn into written guides.
Czech subtitles and other exports
Export SRT or VTT for Czech subtitles (titulky). The files load into YouTube Studio, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and VLC with diacritics intact. Edit the transcript first; the subtitle file is built from the corrected text and its timestamps.
DOCX and PDF suit a thesis or a report, TXT is handy to paste anywhere, and CSV gives one row per line for research coding. Timestamps and speaker names are optional in every export.
Accuracy, speakers and translation
Clear speech from one or two speakers gives a strong draft. Expect more fixes with crosstalk, music under the voice, or a room microphone far from the speakers. Names, abbreviations and numbers are the first things to check. Speaker identification is available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
The transcript stays in Czech. For English, use the Google Translate link on the transcript or the AI prompt export with ChatGPT or Claude. For recordings without video, see the Czech audio to text page.