100% local — your file never leaves your browser
Video Transcript Generator
Drop in an audio or video file and get a clean transcript in seconds — free, no sign-up, SRT and VTT included.
- Free
- No sign-up
- No watermark
How it works
- 01
Add your file
Pick an audio or video file from your device, or drop it straight onto the page.
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We transcribe it
Pick the spoken language and the speech becomes text — 16 languages available.
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Copy or export
Copy the transcript, or download it as TXT, SRT or VTT for subtitles.
Why choose TranscriptSnap
The video never reaches a server
The speech model runs inside this browser tab, so your file is read from disk and stays there. Not encrypted in transit — never transmitted. You can watch the network panel while it runs and see for yourself.
No limit, because there is nothing to meter
Services charge by the minute because every minute costs them GPU time. Here the work happens on the device you are already holding, so there is no per-minute cost to recover and no reason to cap you.
Subtitles come out of the same run
Timestamps are produced alongside the text, so one pass gives you both a transcript and a subtitle file. Export SRT for a video editor or VTT for HTML5 video, already timed.
You pick the language, not a guess
Sixteen languages are listed, and each was measured before being added. You choose which one applies, because a wrong auto-guess does not fail visibly — it produces fluent text nobody said.
Good to know
Why it runs in your browser
The speech model runs inside your own browser rather than on our servers. That one decision explains most of what makes this different: nothing is sent anywhere, so a recording you would never hand to a third party is safe to transcribe here; there is no per-minute cost to meter, so there is no limit on how much you transcribe; and once the model has cached it keeps working with no network at all. The cost is a one-time model download and a few seconds of your own device doing the work — on anything modern that trade is worth making.
What a transcript is actually good for
Most people do not want the transcript itself. They want what it unlocks: subtitles for a video that will otherwise be watched on mute, a caption written from what was actually said rather than from memory, timestamps that point to the twenty seconds worth clipping, or a searchable record of a meeting nobody took notes in. Text also translates cleanly, which audio does not — a transcript is usually the first step to reaching an audience in another language.
Accuracy, honestly
Clean single-speaker audio comes out close to verbatim, and editing the result is faster than typing from scratch. Accuracy degrades in predictable ways: two people talking over each other blur into one stream, proper nouns and technical jargon are the most common errors, and distant or noisy recordings suffer badly. The model guesses a plausible word rather than leaving a gap, so mistakes read confidently. Treat the output as a strong first draft, not a finished record. How Whisper works and which model size to pick
Why it costs nothing
Transcription services normally charge by the minute because every minute you send costs them GPU time. Upload mode moves that work onto the device you are already holding, so there is no per-minute cost to pass on and no incentive to meter you. The model downloads once, roughly the size of a short podcast episode, and is reused from cache from then on. There is no paid tier holding back accuracy or length, because there is no per-minute cost for us to recover.
What we do not keep
There is nothing to keep — the file is read from disk by your own browser and never reaches us, and the transcript is produced and displayed without a round trip. There is no account, so there is no history to mine and nothing to leak. You do not have to take our word for it: open the browser network panel while a transcript runs and you will see the audio go nowhere, which is a stronger guarantee than any privacy policy. How to verify a transcription tool never uploads your audio
Frequently asked questions
Is this video transcript generator free?
Yes, with no limit at all. Transcription runs entirely inside your own browser, so there is no per-minute server cost for us to charge back to you — no account, no trial, no paid tier.
Do I need to create an account?
No. There is no sign-up, no email and no watermark on anything you export.
Which languages are supported?
Sixteen languages are in the audio-language menu, including English, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian and Chinese. The list is deliberately short: a language is only listed once it has been measured to transcribe reliably, because a transcript that is 25% wrong still reads as fluent prose and is hard to spot as wrong. You pick the language rather than letting it be guessed: a wrong guess does not fail loudly, it produces fluent but invented text, so the choice stays with you. Chinese can be written out in either Simplified or Traditional characters.
Can I get subtitles from the transcript?
Yes. Every transcript can be exported as SRT or VTT with timestamps, ready to drop into any video editor. SRT suits editors and social platforms; VTT is required for HTML5 video on your own site.
How long can the audio be?
There is no server-side limit in upload mode because there is no server. Very long recordings are limited by your device memory — multi-hour files are comfortable on a desktop and can struggle on a phone.
Does it label who is speaking?
No. Speaker labelling (diarization) needs a second model that is not practical to run in a browser. The output is a single continuous text stream.
Is my file uploaded anywhere?
No. The file is read from your disk by your own browser and transcribed in the same tab. Open the network panel while it runs and you will see the model download once and nothing else leave.
Which file formats work?
Video files including MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV and AVI, and audio files including MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, OGG and FLAC. For video, the audio track is extracted for you.
A free video transcript generator that works from your own device
Whether you call it a video transcriber, a way to transcribe video to text or simply a free transcript generator, the job is the same: take a recording and give back words you can search, quote, caption and translate. What differs between tools is where that work happens. Almost everything in this category uploads your file to a server and bills the minutes. This one compiles the speech model into your browser instead, which removes the upload, the account and the limit in a single stroke — and costs you a one-time model download plus a few seconds of your own processor. For anything you would hesitate to hand to a third party, that trade is the whole point.