Transcribe Video to Text

Convert any video to a text transcription online

From video to text for everyone

Turn your video into a blog, resource, or social media post when you transcribe a video to text. Compel anyone who reads any snippets of your video’s highlights when you share valuable thoughts and quotes your audience will engage with on LinkedIn, your website, Reddit — anywhere online.

No matter how long your video may be, you can easily convert your video to text online with Kapwing’s video to text converter. Increase your reach across all platforms when you get your video transcription in seconds.

How to Transcribe a Video

Upload video
Start transcribing your video by uploading it to Kapwing directly from your device or by pasting its video URL link from YouTube, Vimeo, Google Photos, etc.
Auto-generate video transcription
Open the “Subtitles” tab and auto-generate subtitles for your video. Then, select “Download transcript” to transcribe your video to text in seconds.
Export and download
Export your new video transcript and download a file so you can repost quotes to social media, timestamp the highlights of your video, or just for safe keeping.

Automatically transcribe your videos accurately

Take any video and automatically get accurate subtitles, an SRT file, or a video transcript in seconds. Today, content online takes many different forms: still images, video, graphics, infographics, blog posts, articles, and more.

Increase your reach and capture all the details of your video when you get a text transcription of your videos. Prepare your video content to take on any platform in text form as a blog post, a social media caption, or a short-form teaser on paragraph. With Kapwing’s video to text converter, you’ll have the most accurate subtitles and text transcript to share with anyone online.

When you get text files from video recordings, you make it easier for yourself and others to consume your content. Take an online video lesson, for example. Get a text transcription of your video lesson so your students can read over the content and you can accommodate those who aren’t visual learners.

This free, online tool works for all major video file types including MP4, MOV, WebM, and more. You can also paste your video URL link from most video hosting sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive, or TikTok to upload it and get a text transcript. Access Kapwing directly from any device in your web browser and turn video or audio to text with this video transcription software.

Discover even more features on Kapwing

Add Subtitles

Generate and customizable captions that automatically sync to your video. Use our AI-powered tool to create a transcript of your video, and then customize your auto-synced subtitles to make them perfect for your content creation needs. Resize, swap out fonts, or add in professional animations and transitions - all your edits will instantly be applied to the entire video.

Subtitle Video

Smart Cut

Smart Cut automates your video editing process by detecting and removing silences from your video in a matter of seconds. You'll be saving hours of editing time and completing your rough cut faster than ever for talking head videos, recorded presentations, tutorials, vlogs, and more. Editing has never been so seamless.

Remove Silences

Resizer

Repurpose videos faster and make them look more professional with our Resize Canvas feature! In just a few clicks, you can take a single video and adjust it to be the right size for every other platform, whether it's for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, or somewhere else.

Resize Video

Background Remover

With Kapwing's smart background removal tool, you can isolate people from the background of a video for free, without a green screen. All it takes is a few clicks. Upload your content, select the Remove Background tool, and use the preview to choose the threshold that best works for you.

Remove Background

Clean Audio

Enhance your project’s audio in seconds with Kapwing. In one click, Clean Audio automatically removes background noise, corrects loudness, and helps reduce popping sounds in your audio and videos. To use it, simply upload a video or audio file, then select Clean Audio on the right side.

Remove Audio Background

Collaborative editing

Work with your team directly in Kapwing. Create and edit content, then send it to share and collaborate with your teammates. Make team workspaces, comment in the editor, and work on videos together in real time or asynchronously.

Start Editing

Trimmer

Edit the length of your video clip by dragging the timeline handles or by using the Split tool. It’s never been easier to cut out silences, rearrange clips, or adjust the length of your audio to fit your video.

Trim Video

Waveforms

Kapwing's customizable waveforms let you bring your audio or podcast content to life. Our Waveform tool creates an automatically-generated, animated graph showing the frequency and amplitude of your audio over time. Choose between a classic waveform style and a stacked “bars” style to bring your own touch to your project.

Add a Waveform

Unlimited Overlays

Make your content pop with image overlays, emojis, progress bars, and audio waveforms. Then simply resize and position them to customize your project. With unlimited overlays, the possibilities are endless.

Add an Overlay

Stock Assets

Browse hundreds of royalty-free images, GIFs, videos, sound effects, and music clips directly in our editor. Curate assets that will bring your project to life, then edit them the way you want to all in one place.

Try Plugins

Templates

Get inspired by hundreds of trendy video templates made to unleash your creativity. Select the template that best suits your project, and then make it your own with custom videos, images, or text. Making professionally designed videos or memes has never been faster.

See All Templates

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I turn a video into text?

Turn any video into text using any video to text converter or transcriber. If you want to transcribe video to text for free, the most recommended tool by over 3,000 4.9+ star Google reviews is Kapwing. You can access their free video transcription software online on any device and get an accurate text transcript in seconds.

Can I convert a YouTube video to text?

Yes! Use Kapwing’s online video transcription software to convert a YouTube video to text directly from your device. Simply copy and paste the YouTube link of your own video to Kapwing and automatically get an accurate text transcription online.

What's different about Kapwing?

Easy

Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.

Free

Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.

Accessible

Automatically subtitle and translate videos with our AI-powered Subtitler tool. Caption your videos in seconds, so that no viewers get left behind.

Online

Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.

No spam or ads

We don't serve ads: we're committed to building a quality, trustworthy website. And we will never spam you nor sell your information to anyone.

Powerful

Kapwing works hard to help make the content you want, when you want it. Get started on your project today.

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Best online video service ever. And a miracle for deaf people.

[Subtitler] is able to autogenerate subtitles for video in almost any language. I'm deaf (or almost deaf, to be correct) and thanks to Kapwing I'm now able understand and react on videos from my friends :)

Michael Trader

Information Services Freelancer

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Virtual Freelance Worker

By the far the most user friendly software to use.

As a housewife at home looking to start a Youtube channel for fun with absolutely zero editing experience, it was so easy for me to teach myself via their YouTube channel. It takes the tediousness out of editing and encourages creativity. As long as Kapwing is around, I will be using their software.

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Youtuber

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Director of Content

Kapwing is king.

When I use this software, I feel all sorts of creative juices flowing because of how jam-packed with features the software really is. A very well-made product that will keep you enticed for hours.

Martin James

Video Editor

Love this site.

As a English Foreign Language Teacher, this site helps me to quickly subtitle interesting videos that I can use in class. The students love the videos, and the subtitles really help them to learn new vocabulary as well as better understand and follow the video.

Heidi Rae

Education

Excellent subtitling features

[It] works perfectly for me. Have been using Kapwing for a year or so, and their automatic subtitle tool gets better and better every week, it's rare that I have to correct a word. Keep up the good work!

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Consultant