About transcript.im
transcript.im turns video and audio into text you can read, understand, and reuse — without spending hours replaying recordings and typing by hand.
What is transcript.im?
transcript.im is a transcription workspace for public video links and uploaded audio or video. Paste a YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram link, or upload a media file, and the product creates a timestamped transcript that stays connected to the original recording.
Once the transcript is ready, you can clean it, translate it, turn it into structured notes, summarize the key ideas, or build a mind map. Everything starts from the transcript, so you can move from watching to working with the content in one place.
What can you do with a transcript?
Understand long content faster
Scan the transcript, jump to timestamps, and use summaries or chapter notes to find the parts that matter.
Create reusable notes
Turn lectures, meetings, interviews, and videos into structured notes instead of starting from a blank document.
Repurpose spoken ideas
Use the transcript as the source for articles, social posts, clips, subtitles, and research material.
Work across languages
Translate timestamped transcripts while keeping the text aligned with the original video or audio.
How it works
1. Add your video or audio
Paste a supported public link or upload a media file from your device.
2. Get a timestamped transcript
transcript.im uses available captions when possible and transcribes the audio when captions are unavailable.
3. Turn the transcript into work
Review the text, then summarize, translate, clean, export, or organize it with AI tools.
Who is transcript.im for?
Creators and marketers
Convert videos and podcasts into captions, briefs, posts, and reusable content without transcribing manually.
Students and researchers
Search lectures, interviews, and source material, then turn them into study notes and structured summaries.
Teams and operators
Capture meetings, demos, training material, and customer conversations in a format that is easier to share and review.
Anyone who prefers reading
Follow a recording as text, scan ahead, copy the useful parts, and return to the exact timestamp when needed.
Frequently asked questions
Which video and audio sources does transcript.im support?
You can paste public YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram links or upload common video and audio files. The available workflow depends on the source and whether usable captions are already available.
What happens when a video has no captions?
When usable captions are unavailable, transcript.im can extract the audio and create a transcript with automatic speech recognition. Uploaded media uses the audio-transcription path directly.
How accurate are the transcripts?
Accuracy varies with the original captions, spoken language, recording quality, background noise, accents, specialist vocabulary, and overlapping speakers. You can review the timestamped result against the source before using it.
Can transcript.im summarize and translate a transcript?
Yes. A completed transcript can be summarized, cleaned, translated into one of the target languages in the product, organized into notes, or turned into a mind map.
Can I start for free?
Yes. The Free plan includes a small daily allowance for server transcript extraction, audio transcription, and AI tools. Paid plans add copying, downloads, larger batch jobs, and API access.
Turn your next recording into something useful
Paste a link or upload a file to get the transcript first. You can decide what to create from it after that.