Transcribe a podcast to text
Turn any podcast or audio recording into a clean transcript with AI — plain text, SRT, or VTT, all in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.
Free · No signup · Files never leave your device
Drag and drop a video or audio file
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How it works
Drop your video or audio
Any MP4, MOV, MKV, MP3, or recording — it stays on your device, nothing is uploaded.
AI transcribes locally
OpenAI's Whisper speech-recognition model runs right in your browser via WebGPU or WebAssembly, with a timestamp for every line. Or upload your own SRT/VTT to skip this step.
Download your subtitles
Get a timestamped SRT or VTT file or a plain-text transcript — free, no watermark. Or burn the captions in / add a soft track instead.
Podcast transcripts that stay on your machine
A transcript makes a podcast searchable, quotable, and accessible — and it feeds show notes and blog posts. This tool runs Whisper locally in your browser, so even long recordings are transcribed on your own hardware with nothing uploaded to a server.
Export a plain-text transcript for editing, or a timestamped SRT/VTT if you're captioning a video version of the episode. Clear speech transcribes very well; running a noisy recording through the free noise remover first noticeably improves accuracy.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Drop an MP3, WAV, M4A, FLAC, or other audio file and it transcribes the same way. For audio you get the text outputs — plain-text transcript, SRT, or VTT.
Yes — choose the TXT output for a clean transcript with no timestamps, ideal for show notes, blog posts, or meeting minutes, and copy it to your clipboard in one click. SRT and VTT with timestamps are available too.
Yes. Upload an existing SRT or VTT file to skip transcription — then download it in another format, burn the captions into the video, or add them as a soft track.
No. The Whisper AI transcription runs locally in your browser via WebGPU or WebAssembly, and if you burn captions in, that re-encode runs on your device too. Your file never leaves your computer — once the page has loaded it even works offline.
Whisper was trained on about 100 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, and Hindi. Language is auto-detected by default; picking the spoken language can improve accuracy.
The Whisper speech model (~77–150 MB depending on your browser) downloads the first time you use the tool and is then cached. After that, transcription starts immediately.
Yes. The transcript generator is completely free, with no signup, watermarks, or limits. We make money from our video translation service, not from this tool.