Chinese audio and video to text

Paste a YouTube link or upload a recording in Chinese. 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 Chinese as the spoken language in the form, or leave it on auto-detect.

About Chinese (中文)

Speakers: Over 1.1 billion speakers worldwide
Writing system: Chinese characters (Hanzi), in Simplified or Traditional form
Language family: Sino-Tibetan
Varieties: Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu and other regional spoken varieties

What makes Chinese hard to transcribe

Chinese is tonal and written without spaces, and many syllables share the same sound, so choosing the right character from context is essential.