Transcribe video to text
A video transcriber for lectures, interviews, webinars and screen recordings — extract every spoken word as searchable, editable text.
By Anubhav Jain, Trustample founder · Updated July 2026 · Claims verified against the live product
Free: 60 min per 30 days, files up to 30 min / 50 MB · Paid plans: 10 to 100 hrs, files up to 2 GB. Big video? Upload just its audio track — same transcript, much faster upload.
Encrypted in transit · audio & video auto-delete in 30 days · never used to train AI
Optional settings
Set this for the most accurate result on quiet or mixed audio.
Get a second copy translated into another language (Pro).
Uncommon words the AI might misspell — list them so they come out right.
Video is where knowledge hides: hours of lectures, all-hands meetings, product demos and interviews that nobody can skim. A video transcriber extracts the text from all of it — every spoken word becomes searchable, quotable, editable.
Trustample accepts video files directly (MP4, MOV, WEBM and more), reads the audio track, and returns a transcript that stays synced to playback — plus subtitle exports when you need captions. No audio-extraction step, no separate converter.
How it works
- 1Upload the video file — no audio extraction needed.
- 2AI transcription runs in the background with timestamps per word.
- 3Edit, then export a document or SRT/VTT subtitles.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What video formats can I upload?
MP4 and MOV are the most common, and WEBM, MKV and most other mainstream containers work too. If a format ever fails, converting to MP4 with any free converter solves it.
Can I turn the transcript into captions for social media?
Yes — export SRT or VTT and import into CapCut, Premiere, YouTube or wherever you publish. Timestamps come straight from the AI, so captions land on the right frames.
Does a long video cost more?
Free covers 60 minutes a month with videos up to 30 minutes each. Basic is $12/month for a 10-hour pool; Pro is $19/month for 20 hours with files up to 6 hr 40 min or 2 GB. No surprise per-minute charges.
The speaker is quiet in my video. Will it still work?
Usually yes — the model handles modest noise and volume well. If a result comes back sparse, setting the spoken language explicitly (instead of auto-detect) often recovers a full transcript.
Is this a video transcriber or a caption generator?
Both, from one upload — and the difference matters. A caption generator gives you timed lines for the screen; a video transcriber gives you an editable document. Trustample produces the transcript first (readable, correctable, exportable as TXT/DOCX/PDF), and the same word-level timestamps then export as SRT/VTT captions — so you fix a name once and both outputs carry the fix.
Does 'extract text from video' include text shown on screen?
No — that's a different technology. Trustample extracts spoken words (speech-to-text from the audio track); reading text that appears on screen — slides, signs, burned-in captions — is OCR, which we don't do. If the words you need were spoken, we extract them; if they only ever appeared visually, you need an OCR tool instead.
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