Paste the link of a public Facebook video, Reel or finished Live. The speech comes back as timestamped text with a summary: useful for sermons and town halls streamed on a Page, and for interviews you need to quote.
The file you have
Sometimes a link works. A public video's link can be pasted in the box above. Anything that needs you to be signed in to watch has to be downloaded and uploaded as a file.
How it works
On the video choose Share → Copy link. Check it opens in a private browser window; if it does, it is public.
Or upload the MP4 you downloaded from your own Page.
Post it under the video, turn the summary into the event recap, or export SRT and add captions in the video's edit screen.
Good to know
What comes back
The same four things for every Facebook recording, whatever its length.
Every line carries its time. Click a line to hear that second again, or search a name or phrase and jump to each place it was said.
A brief with the takeaways, chapters with their start times, and the quotes worth keeping. Speakers are identified and named in the summary, key quotes and chapters.
Ask where a topic came up or what was decided, and get the answer with the time it was said, instead of scrolling the whole text.
TXT, DOCX, SRT, VTT, JSON from the same transcript: a document to edit, caption files for video, plain text to paste, structured data for your own tools.
Pricing
A two-hour Live replay is 120 minutes, so the $4 pack (500 minutes) covers it 4 times over. Every recording gets a free preview and a summary you can read before paying; a pack opens the full transcript and every export. Packs are one-time purchases with no subscription and no seat fee.
Pick a pack to open secure checkout. Workspace is $19 a month for unlimited transcription (300-hour fair-use mark). Full pricing
1,901 recordings, 830 audio hours, 64 languages detected. An hour of audio came back in 3.7 minutes for half of the recordings and within 19.7 minutes for nine in ten, measured from the moment the file landed to the finished transcript. Refreshed 2026-10-02; method on how we test.
FAQ
Copy the public video's link and paste it in the box on this page, or download your own video from Facebook and upload the MP4. The speech comes back as timestamped text.
Yes, once it has ended and the replay is available. Paste the replay's link, or download the video from your Page and upload it.
The video is not public: it is in a private group, on a restricted profile, or needs a login. Download it from your own account and upload the file.
The preview and the summary are free. A pack opens the full transcript: $4 for 500 minutes, $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes. Packs are one-time, credits never expire, and Workspace is $19 a month if you transcribe every week.
One file can run up to 10 hours or 5 GB. The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; a larger file continues on the main upload page, which uploads it in parts. Most recordings come back in about two minutes per hour of audio.
Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete a recording and its transcript at any time.
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Free preview, no signup to try. Up to 10 hours or 5 GB in one file.
For the recordings and videos it produces: see video transcription services with SRT and VTT exports, online transcription services and our transcription service with prices and turnaround.