Vimeo does not let other services fetch a video from its page link, so the reliable route is two minutes longer: download the video file from Vimeo, drop it here, and download SRT or VTT.
How it works
On your own video, open it in the Vimeo library and choose Download. On someone else's video the Download button appears under the player only when the owner allows it.
Files up to 500 MB go straight into the box on this page; larger ones continue on the upload page, up to 10 hours or 5 GB. The language is detected for you.
Open the transcript, fix any misheard names, and download the subtitle file. Vimeo's own caption upload takes VTT and SRT.
Why not just the link
Since mid-2026 Vimeo serves a video's stream only to a signed-in viewer, so a pasted vimeo.com/123456789 address gives an outside service nothing to download. The box on this page says so straight away instead of making you wait for a failure.
Three routes do work:
Putting it back on Vimeo
In the video's settings on Vimeo, open the captions and subtitles panel, choose the language and whether the track is captions or subtitles, and upload the file. Vimeo recommends WebVTT and also accepts SRT, so either download works. Switch the track on after uploading; an uploaded track that is left off does not show in the player's CC menu.
If the video is embedded on your own site through the Vimeo player, the track follows the embed. If you host the file yourself in an HTML5 player, use the VTT download: see subtitles for HTML5 video.
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.
| Recording | $4 or $8 pack | $12 pack | $24 pack |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-minute product video | $0.04 | $0.03 | $0.02 |
| 40-minute webinar replay | $0.32 | $0.24 | $0.19 |
| 2-hour event recording | $0.96 | $0.72 | $0.58 |
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
No. Vimeo only serves its video streams to signed-in viewers, so page links are not fetched. Download the video from Vimeo and upload the file here; the subtitle file is the same.
If the owner uploaded a caption track and allows downloads, Vimeo offers it from the video's download options. When there is no track, or it is the automatic one and full of errors, upload the video here and make a new SRT from the speech.
Yes. Vimeo's caption upload accepts WebVTT, which it recommends, and SRT among other formats. Both come from the same transcript here at no extra charge.
Yes, as long as the file you transcribed is the same cut as the one on Vimeo. Cue times come from the recording itself. If you trimmed the video after transcribing, shift the cues by the trimmed amount in a subtitle editor.
Up to 10 hours or 5 GB per file. Files over 500 MB continue on the upload page rather than in the box on this page.
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 upload; packs from $4 when the full transcript needs one.