English video in, transcript out
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.
A ten-minute video is usually done in a minute or two. The transcript opens next to a player: click a line to play from there, fix a word in place, and use the Copy button to grab the whole text.
Videos without captions
Many YouTube videos have no captions, or only auto-captions without punctuation. RocketScribe transcribes the audio itself rather than reading YouTube's captions, so you get punctuated sentences with timestamps either way. The same goes for TikToks, screen recordings and files straight off a camera or phone.
Accents, jargon and other languages
English is the language the model knows best. Clear speech gives a strong draft, and accents from Scotland to Lagos to Bangalore are handled well; very strong regional accents and non-native speakers in noisy rooms produce more errors. Product names, acronyms and people's names are what to check first.
Spelling may follow US or British conventions; there is no setting for it, so adjust while editing if your style guide cares. If the video switches into another language for long stretches, those parts may be translated into English or garbled, so pick that language and transcribe the section separately.
English videos people transcribe
Common uploads:
- Lectures, online courses and conference talks, for notes and quotes.
- Interviews and documentaries, for research and articles.
- Your own YouTube, TikTok and Reels videos, for captions and blog posts.
- Recorded Zoom, Meet and Teams calls, for minutes.
- Sermons, webinars and training videos, to publish as text.
Captions, documents and other languages
Export SRT or VTT for captions in YouTube Studio, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, CapCut or VLC; DOCX, PDF and TXT for documents; CSV for one row per line with its start time. Speaker labels for interviews and panels are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
The transcript is in English. To read it in another language, use the Google Translate link on the transcript or the AI prompt export with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. For recordings without video, see the English audio to text page.