Paste a public Wistia media link, or download the video from your account and drop it here. The transcript comes back with timestamps, and its SRT or VTT uploads straight into Wistia's captions.
The file you have
Sometimes a link works. A public link can be pasted; anything private or signed-in has to be downloaded and uploaded as a file.
How it works
Use the public media page's address, or download the file from the media's page in your account.
A 30-minute webinar is usually ready in about a minute.
Export SRT or VTT here, then upload it under the video's captions in Wistia.
Good to know
What comes back
The same four things for every Wistia 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 35-minute webinar is 35 minutes, so the $4 pack (500 minutes) covers it 14 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
Paste the public media link in the box on this page, or download the video from your Wistia account and upload the file.
Yes. Export SRT or VTT from the transcript and upload it in the video's caption settings in Wistia.
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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