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Transcribe a Streamlabs recording to text.

Drop the file Streamlabs Desktop saved while you were live or recording. The speech comes back as a timestamped transcript with chapters, so a four-hour stream becomes something you can search, clip and caption.

Free preview and summary Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file 99+ languages TXT · DOCX · SRT · VTT · JSON

The file you have

What Streamlabs Desktop saves.

Format: MP4, MKV, MOV or FLV, whichever is set under Settings → Output → Recording Format. All four upload as they are.
Where it lands: The Recording Path on the same settings screen; by default your Videos folder.
Typical size: 2–5 GB an hour at 1080p. A full evening's stream is often larger than the 5 GB upload limit as video.
Audio tracks: Up to six, as in OBS. Everything is on track 1 unless you changed it.

There is no link to paste for this one. The recording is a local file. If you only streamed and did not record, the VOD lives on the platform: see the Twitch, Kick and YouTube Live pages linked below.

How it works

Three steps, the first one is the only one that takes any thought.

Find the file

Open the Recording Path folder from Settings → Output. Recordings are named by date and time.

Upload it, or its audio

Under 500 MB goes in the box on this page; up to 5 GB on the main upload page. For a longer stream, save just the audio with VLC or ffmpeg and upload that.

Search, clip, caption

Find the moment by searching the text, read the chapter list for highlights, export SRT for the VOD upload.

Good to know

What trips people up, and what to do about it.

Only the first audio track is transcribed. If your microphone is on its own track for editing, check that it is also on track 1 (Advanced Audio Settings), otherwise the transcript is of game sound.
Streamed but did not record? There is no local file. Use the platform's VOD: Twitch, Kick or YouTube Live.
Music and game audio under the voice lower accuracy on quiet speech. A transcript of a loud stream is good for finding moments; check quotes against the timestamp before publishing them.
Over 5 GB? Save only the audio: VLC's Convert / Save with an audio profile, or ffmpeg -i stream.mp4 -vn audio.mp3. A 10 GB recording becomes an MP3 of a couple of hundred megabytes with every word still in it.

Example. A three-and-a-half-hour Just Chatting stream is an 8 GB MP4. Saved as audio only, the MP3 is about 190 MB. The transcript returns in roughly seven minutes; searching it for a sponsor's name finds the three reads and their timestamps for the recap clip.

What comes back

More than a wall of text.

The same four things for every Streamlabs recording, whatever its length.

A transcript with timestamps

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 summary, chapters and key quotes

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.

Questions answered from the recording

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.

Every export

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

Free preview. Packs from $4, and the minutes never expire.

A three-and-a-half-hour stream is 210 minutes, so the $4 pack (500 minutes) covers it twice. 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.

$4500 minutesBuy $81,000 minutesBuy $122,000 minutesBuy $245,000 minutesBuy

Pick a pack to open secure checkout. Workspace is $19 a month for unlimited transcription (300-hour fair-use mark). Full pricing

What we measured, last 30 days

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

Streamlabs Desktop to text, answered.

How do I transcribe a Streamlabs recording?

Open the recording folder set in Streamlabs Desktop under Settings → Output, take the MP4 or MKV, and drop it in the box on this page. For recordings over 5 GB, save just the audio as MP3 first (VLC or ffmpeg) so the upload is small.

Does Streamlabs make a transcript itself?

Streamlabs Desktop records and streams; it does not write a transcript of the recording. You upload the finished file to get one.

Can I get captions for my VOD from this?

Yes. Export SRT or VTT from the finished transcript and add it to the video on YouTube or in your editor. The captions are in the language that was spoken.

What does transcribing Streamlabs recordings cost?

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.

How long can the recording be?

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.

Is the recording kept private?

Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and are never used for training. You can delete a recording and its transcript at any time.