Video file or link
Drop in the video file unchanged: MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI, M4V, 3GP or a phone screen recording. The sound track is pulled out on the server, so there is no convert-to-MP3 step, and every timestamp still matches the picture. If the video is online, paste its public link under Import from link: YouTube, Shorts, TikTok, public Vimeo, Dropbox or Google Drive share links, or a direct link to a video file. Only the audio is downloaded. Playlists and channels are refused, so queue videos one link at a time, and sign-in-only posts such as Instagram need to be downloaded and uploaded.
Once it is done, the transcript plays along with the video. Click any line to jump there, correct it, and the edit is saved automatically.
Formal Indonesian, slang and regional languages
Indonesian is written in the Latin alphabet without diacritics, which keeps transcripts simple to edit. The challenge is register. News and lectures use formal bahasa baku; YouTube and TikTok are full of Jakarta slang such as gue, lo, nggak and banget, and many urban creators mix in English phrases mid-sentence. The model writes what it hears, so slang usually stays slang.
Many speakers also slip into Javanese, Sundanese or another regional language, especially in family videos and local news. Those passages are often written as approximate Indonesian. Keep Indonesian selected for a mostly Indonesian video; for a video mainly in Javanese or Sundanese, use that language's page. Malaysian Malay videos are best transcribed with Malay selected, since spelling and vocabulary differ.
What Indonesians transcribe
Popular uses:
- Kajian and ceramah recordings, to share a religious talk as text.
- Online classes and webinars, for notes and summaries.
- YouTube podcasts and TikTok videos, for subtitles and captions.
- Interviews for skripsi research or journalism.
- Zoom and Google Meet recordings from work.
Subtitles and exports
Export SRT or VTT for subtitle files that work in YouTube Studio, CapCut, Premiere Pro and VLC. DOCX and PDF suit a skripsi appendix or a report; TXT is quick to paste into a caption. CSV gives one row per line with its start time.
Accuracy and translating
Clear Indonesian speech gives a good, readable draft. Names, places, abbreviations and slang spellings are the main things to check. Speaker identification is available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack, useful for panels and podcasts with several hosts.
The transcript stays in Indonesian. For an English reading, open the Google Translate link on the transcript, or use the AI prompt export to hand the text to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini. For audio-only recordings, see the Indonesian audio to text page.