Spanish video to text in a few steps
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 and correct it in place. Several videos can be uploaded together, which suits a series of classes or a batch of interviews.
Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and the Southern Cone
Spanish from any country is written in standard Spanish spelling. Mexican, Colombian, Argentine, Caribbean and Peninsular accents all transcribe well on clear audio. Fast Caribbean speech that drops final s, or Rioplatense voseo (vos tenés), is recognised, but read those lines carefully.
Regional words such as güey, che, pana or vale are usually written as spoken. Spanglish from US videos often keeps the English words in English spelling. Accents on words like qué, cómo and está and the ñ are kept, though an occasional missing tilde is worth a check before you publish.
Spanish videos people transcribe
Common uploads:
- YouTube and TikTok videos, for Spanish subtitles and blog posts.
- Recorded classes, webinars and online courses, for notes.
- Interviews and testimonies filmed for research, journalism or legal cases.
- Recorded Zoom and Teams meetings with Latin American or Spanish teams.
- Sermons and church services streamed in Spanish.
Spanish subtitles (subtítulos) and exports
Export SRT or VTT to add Spanish subtitles in YouTube Studio, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or CapCut. The files are UTF-8, so á, é, ñ, ¿ and ¡ display correctly. Corrections made in the editor flow into the subtitle file.
DOCX and PDF suit reports and transcripts for clients; CSV gives one row per line with its time for research coding.
Accuracy, speakers and English
Spanish is one of the strongest languages for speech recognition, so clear videos need few edits. Music, crowds and several people talking at once lower the accuracy. Speaker labels are available on paid plans and with a Minute Pack.
The transcript stays in Spanish. To read it in English, use the Google Translate link on the transcript or the AI prompt export. For audio-only recordings, see the Spanish audio to text page.