German audio and video to text

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

About German (Deutsch)

Speakers
Around 95 million native speakers
Writing system
The Latin alphabet (with ä, ö, ü and ß)
Language family
Germanic (Indo-European)
Varieties
Standard German plus Austrian and Swiss varieties

What makes German hard to transcribe

German's long compound words challenge word segmentation, its four-case grammar produces many forms of each word, and Swiss and Austrian pronunciation varies widely.