Copy the link from TikTok's Share menu, paste it here, and download the spoken words as an SRT or VTT file with timing. A one-minute video is usually ready in well under a minute.
How it works
In the TikTok app tap Share, then Copy link. On the web, copy the address from the browser bar. Short vm.tiktok.com links work too.
The video's audio is fetched and transcribed. Speech in the video is detected in its own language; text that is only drawn on screen is not read.
Open the transcript and download the subtitle file, or copy the text to translate, quote or re-caption the clip.
What you get from a short video
People use a TikTok SRT for three things: re-captioning their own clip in an editor with a cleaner style, translating a clip they want to repost in another language, and pulling the exact words of a clip into notes or an article.
Short videos have their own quirks, and it is better to know them before you start:
Putting captions back on a clip
TikTok's own captions are generated inside the app. To use your corrected or translated subtitles, import the SRT into an editor and export the video with the captions drawn in: CapCut's desktop app imports SRT (steps here), and so do Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve. For vertical clips in general see subtitles for Shorts and Reels.
Sample output
1 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:46,500 fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition 2 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:50,300 that all men are created equal. 3 00:00:50,300 --> 00:00:57,500 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived 4 00:00:57,500 --> 00:01:01,620 and so dedicated, can long endure. 5 00:01:01,620 --> 00:01:07,920 We are met on a great battlefield of that war we have come to dedicate a portion of that field 6 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:14,240 as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that their nation might live 7 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,800 it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this
Real output, unedited: a public-domain LibriVox reading of the Gettysburg Address (2 min 41 s) transcribed here in October 2026. The repeated word and the missing capitals are what came back; you would fix those on the transcript before downloading.
Before you rely on it
Each cue is a phrase from the transcript with its start and end time. Most run a few seconds. A passage spoken without a pause can come out as one long cue of up to about half a minute, so split those in your editor if your platform wants two short lines at a time.
Cue times are taken from the recording itself, so the file lines up with the video or audio you uploaded. If you trim the start of the video afterwards, shift the cues by the same amount in your editor.
On public test recordings, about 7 words in 100 differed from the reference for clean English read speech, between 4 and 9 in 100 for Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, French and German, and about 21 in 100 for Hindi. Noisy rooms, music and crosstalk do worse. Method and every number: the benchmark.
Open the transcript, correct a misheard name or number on its line, and the SRT and VTT you download carry the correction with the timing unchanged.
You get the subtitle file. Fonts, colours, position and captions drawn into the picture are done in your video editor or player, which reads this file.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per recording. The box on this page takes files up to 500 MB; larger ones continue on the upload page. 99+ languages, detected automatically.
Pricing
The preview is free. When the full transcript needs a pack, one-time packs are $4 for 500 minutes, $8 for 1,000 minutes, $12 for 2,000 minutes, $24 for 5,000 minutes. Credits never expire, which comes to about $0.29 to $0.48 per hour of audio. Short clips barely touch a pack: the smallest one covers 500 one-minute videos.
| Recording | $4 or $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60-second clip | $0.01 | $0.01 | $0.00 |
| 10 clips of a minute each | $0.08 | $0.06 | $0.05 |
| 10-minute video | $0.08 | $0.06 | $0.05 |
Figures are the share of a pack each recording uses. A button opens secure checkout for that pack. Every export format is included; full details on the pricing page.
FAQ
Copy the video's link from the Share menu and paste it into the box on this page. When the transcript is ready, open it and download SRT or VTT.
No. Only public videos can be fetched from a link. For a private or friends-only video, save the video to your phone from the app and upload the file.
Yes. With credits on the account, the transcript's download menu translates the subtitles into 35 languages and saves them as SRT with the original timing.
No. Subtitles are made from the audio. Captions, stickers and text overlays that are part of the picture are not transcribed.
TikTok does not take subtitle files. Import the SRT into CapCut, Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve and export the video with the captions on it.
Every page in this set uses the same upload box and the same export. All subtitle pages
Free preview. SRT and VTT from the same job; packs from $4 when the full transcript needs one.