Turning a Slovak video into text
Drop in the video file without converting it: MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI, 3GP or a screen recording from your phone. The audio is pulled out on our server, so every timestamp still points to the right moment in the video. If the video is online, choose Import from link and paste a public link from YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, Dropbox or Google Drive, or a direct link to the file; only the sound is downloaded.
The transcript opens beside a player and highlights the line being spoken. Select several files at once if you have a whole lecture series or a set of interviews.
Slovak, Czech and spoken forms
Slovak has its own set of diacritics, including ä, ľ, ĺ, ŕ, ô, ď, ť and ň, and all exports keep them. The commonest errors are around ľ and l, and around short and long vowels, so read words where length changes the meaning.
Slovak videos often contain Czech, whether a guest from Prague, a Czech film clip or a song. With Slovak selected, Czech passages may be written with Slovak spellings. For a video mostly in Czech, use the Czech page. Hungarian-speaking regions in the south produce videos that switch to Hungarian too; those passages need to be fixed by hand or transcribed separately. Eastern Slovak and other dialects are recognised, but dialect words tend to be pulled towards standard Slovak.
Slovak videos people transcribe
Typical uploads:
- Lectures and seminars recorded at university, for notes.
- Interviews filmed for a bakalárska or diplomová práca.
- YouTube videos, TikTok clips and video podcasts, for Slovak subtitles.
- Recorded Teams or Zoom meetings, for minutes.
- Training and onboarding videos, to turn into written guides.
Slovak subtitles and documents
Export SRT or VTT for Slovak subtitles (titulky). They are UTF-8, so every diacritic survives in YouTube Studio, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and VLC. The subtitle file is built from your edited transcript, so correct the text first. DOCX and PDF suit a thesis appendix, and CSV lists each line with its start time for research coding.
Accuracy and English
Clear speech from one or two speakers gives a good draft that needs a careful read. Names, numbers and abbreviations are the first things to check, and room echo or background music adds work. Speaker identification is available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
The transcript stays in Slovak; there is no built-in translation. 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 audio-only recordings, see the Slovak audio to text page.