Transcribe video to text
A video transcriber for lectures, interviews, webinars and screen recordings. Extract every spoken word as searchable, editable text.
Free: 60 min per 30 days, files up to 30 min / 50 MB · Paid plans: 10 to 100 hrs, files up to 2 GB. Big video? Upload just its audio track: same transcript, much faster upload.
Encrypted in transit · audio & video auto-delete in 30 days · never used to train AI
Optional settings
Set this for the most accurate result on quiet or mixed audio.
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Last updated 21 July 2026
To transcribe video to text, upload the file, MP4, MOV or WEBM, and Trustample reads the speech straight from the audio track. There is no audio-extraction step and no separate converter to run first. A few minutes later you have a transcript with word-level timestamps, synced to playback so you can click any sentence and hear that exact moment in the video.
The files people bring here are usually lectures, webinar replays, all-hands meetings, product demos and interviews: hours of talking that nobody can skim as video. As text, the same material becomes searchable, quotable and editable, so the minute where pricing came up is a search away and an exact quote arrives with its timestamp.
One upload produces both outputs video work tends to need. The transcript exports as TXT, DOCX or PDF when you want a document, and the same word-level timestamps export as SRT or VTT captions when the video is going back out with subtitles. Trying it costs nothing: the free plan includes an hour of transcription each month, in videos up to 30 minutes long, so a batch of short recordings fits before any payment question comes up.
Example transcript
A sample of the output. Every line carries a timestamp and a speaker label, and in the editor each word links back to that exact moment in the audio, so checking a quote takes seconds.
How it works
- 1Upload the video file. No audio extraction is needed.
- 2AI transcription runs in the background with timestamps per word.
- 3Edit, then export a document or SRT/VTT subtitles.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What video formats can I upload?
MP4 and MOV are the most common, and WEBM, MKV and most other mainstream containers work too. If a format ever fails, converting to MP4 with any free converter solves it.
Can I turn the transcript into captions for social media?
Yes. Export SRT or VTT and import into CapCut, Premiere, YouTube or wherever you publish. Timestamps come straight from the AI, so captions land on the right frames.
Does a long video cost more?
Length changes the plan you need, not the price per video. Free handles videos up to 30 minutes; Basic is $12/month for a 10-hour pool; Pro is $19/month for 20 hours with files up to 6 hr 40 min or 2 GB. No surprise per-minute charges.
The speaker is quiet in my video. Will it still work?
Usually yes, because the model handles modest noise and volume well. If a result comes back sparse, setting the spoken language explicitly (instead of auto-detect) often recovers a full transcript.
Is this a video transcriber or a caption generator?
Both, from one upload, and the difference matters. A caption generator gives you timed lines for the screen; a video transcriber gives you an editable document. Trustample produces the transcript first (readable, correctable, exportable as TXT/DOCX/PDF), and the same word-level timestamps then export as SRT/VTT captions, so you fix a name once and both outputs carry the fix.
Does 'extract text from video' include text shown on screen?
No, that's a different technology. Trustample extracts spoken words (speech-to-text from the audio track); reading text that appears on screen (slides, signs, burned-in captions) is OCR, which we don't do. If the words you need were spoken, we extract them; if they only ever appeared visually, you need an OCR tool instead.
How do I transcribe a Zoom or webinar recording?
Zoom, Teams and most webinar platforms save recordings as MP4, which uploads here as-is: no bot joins your call, and no integration is configured. Our step-by-step Zoom guide covers finding the recording file on each platform.
Can I transcribe a YouTube video?
Your own videos, yes. Download the original file from YouTube Studio, upload it here, and it transcribes like any other video; creators use this for captions and repurposed content. Trustample doesn't take links or fetch other people's videos, so content you don't own isn't something this tool will pull for you.
An honest note: A transcript captures what was said, not what was shown. Slides, on-screen code and demo clicks don't come through, so a tutorial that says "click here and paste this" reads thin as text alone. For talk-heavy video (lectures, interviews, meetings) the transcript carries nearly everything; for visual walkthroughs, treat it as the searchable index to the video rather than a replacement for it.
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