Video Transcriber does what the name says and nothing it doesn’t: upload an MP4, MOV or WebM — or paste a public link — and get the speech back as text, exportable as TXT, DOCX or SRT subtitles, in a claimed 200-plus languages. There’s a free daily allowance with no card, which is the right way to sell transcription: the output is checkable in thirty seconds.
Transcription is a solved-ish problem living inside an unsolved pricing jungle — the same open models power tools charging nothing and tools charging $20/mo, and the differences that matter are the unglamorous ones: file-size limits, queue times, and how exports handle speaker turns and timestamps.
What it costs
Free daily tier, no card; paid plans lift the daily limits (a 40%-off banner was running when we visited, which tells you list prices are soft).
What we can’t tell you
Accuracy on your audio. Clean podcast audio transcribes perfectly everywhere; the divergence happens on accents, crosstalk, music beds and jargon. The free tier is the test: run your worst ten minutes, not your best, and check the SRT timing against the video before building a captioning workflow on it.
The details
| What it is | Video/audio-to-text with TXT, DOCX and SRT export, 200+ languages |
| Price | Free daily allowance · paid plans for volume |
| Best for | Subtitles and transcripts without a subscription you’ll forget to cancel |
| Think twice if | You need speaker labels and timestamps at broadcast accuracy — verify first |
