Picute

Mandarin audio and video to text

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

About Mandarin (普通话 / 國語)

Speakers
Around 920 million native speakers, the world's most spoken native language
Writing system
Chinese characters (Hanzi)
Language family
Sino-Tibetan
Varieties
Mainland Putonghua and Taiwanese Guoyu

What makes Mandarin hard to transcribe

Mandarin's four tones plus a neutral tone can change a word's meaning entirely, and written Chinese has no spaces between words, so segmentation and character choice both matter.

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