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Whatever recorded your screen, the result is a video file with the words in its audio. Drop it here and get those words as a timestamped transcript, a summary with chapters and caption files.
The file you have
There is no link to paste for this one. A screen recording is a file on your device. Upload it; or, if it is saved in Google Drive, share it with 'Anyone with the link' and paste that link.
How it works
Play ten seconds. The single most common problem is a recording made with the microphone off.
Up to 500 MB in this box; up to 5 GB on the main upload page.
Search the session, paste the summary into the ticket or the notes, export captions for the video.
Good to know
ffmpeg -i recording.mkv -vn audio.mp3, or VLC's Convert / Save.What comes back
The same four things for every screen 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 45-minute session is 45 minutes, so the $4 pack (500 minutes) covers it 11 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
Find the file your recorder saved (a .mov on a Mac's Desktop, an MP4 in Videos on Windows, a video in Photos on an iPhone) and drop it in the box on this page. The speech is transcribed with timestamps.
The recording has no speech on its first audio track. Either the microphone was off, it was a phone call (which phones do not record this way), or your voice went to a second track.
MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, FLV and the other formats screen recorders produce are read directly.
Yes. Export SRT or VTT from the finished transcript; the timings match the file you uploaded.
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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