Picute

Arabic audio and video to text

Paste a YouTube link or upload a recording in Arabic. Picute writes out what was said, with a timestamp on every word.

Enter YouTube URL
0/10 URLs
You can enter up to 10 YouTube URLs.

The basics

Input
YouTube links (up to 10 at a time), video or audio files, Google Drive
Languages
Speech recognition in 60 languages
Output
SRT and VTT subtitle files, or an MP4 with the subtitles burned in
Length and size
No limit on video length or file size
Cost
1 credit per minute of transcription. Sign-up includes 10 credits, and free-plan exports carry a watermark. See pricing

Set the spoken language

Choose Arabic as the spoken language in the form, or leave it on auto-detect.

About Arabic (العربية)

Speakers
Around 310 million native speakers across more than 20 countries
Writing system
The Arabic abjad, written right-to-left
Language family
Semitic (Afro-Asiatic)
Varieties
Modern Standard Arabic plus dialects such as Egyptian, Levantine, Gulf and Maghrebi

What makes Arabic hard to transcribe

Arabic is demanding for speech recognition: short vowels are usually left unwritten, so one written word can stand for several spoken forms, and everyday dialects differ sharply from Modern Standard Arabic.

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