English audio and video to text

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

About English (English)

Speakers
Around 380 million native and over 1.5 billion total speakers
Writing system
The Latin alphabet
Language family
Germanic (Indo-European)
Varieties
American, British, Australian, Indian and many other accents

What makes English hard to transcribe

English is the best-resourced language for speech recognition, but its non-phonetic spelling and wide range of accents mean results still depend on clear audio.