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Online Video to Text Converter

Type Studio is a text-based video editor that takes your video and transcribes it into text automatically.

The interface of Type Studio's video editor

Used by the world's leading companies

Benefit of converting your video to text

Transcribing your video manual is painful. That is why we build Type Studio to help you get the most out of your video. Turn .mp4 or .mov into written text.

Repurposing

Repurposing is a modern approach to turning your video into different content pieces to generate more content.

Multilingual Translation

Automatic translate your video transcript into +30 different languages to make it accessible for people around the globe.

Video Transcript

Publishing the transcript helps you to increase your SEO performance. Search engines can understand the content.

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Export in many different formats

As it is a web-based transcription service, your progress will be saved automatically. Just upload your audio or video as a .mp4 or .mov and the speech recognition software will automatically transcribe your recording. You can copy & paste your transcript to the clipboard or export it as a .srt, .vtt, or .txt file, with optional timestamps.

Share your Video and Text via Email

Send your videos with transcribed text via email without anyone having to download them. The transcribed text builds up your article. The only thing you have to do is sharing the link / URL and send an email. Besides the option to share your videos with the link of the page you can also embed the video + transcript into your blog and get an article based on the transcribed video.

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Video to text workflow

How does video to text work?

Get the most out of your videos

Why converting your video to text?

1. Increase the accessibility

According to a statistic, more than 28 million adult Americans are hard of hearing, and that is just in the US alone. Having the ability to read over a transcript of your videos has a clear advantage for these peoples.

2. Build once sell twice

No matter if you are an entrepreneur, broadcaster, journalist, educator, coach, or consultant, Video to text allows you to repurpose your recording and leverage your media marketing. Automatically turn your video to transcripts, summaries, show notes, or blog posts with Type Studio.

3. Improve the discoverability

Transcripts remain underutilized, and this is money left on the table. Providing a podcast transcript is rich with SEO opportunities. On the other side, you are able to search your content and quickly find the right parts from your tutorials, Zoom recordings, or lectures.

How to turn video into text

Let Alex explain how to transcribe your video

What our creators say

Over +80,000 creators and companies use Type Studio to edit and add subtitles to their videos.

Ryan Hoover

@rrhoover

I'm into this

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Igor Zalutski

@igorzij

You guys are addressing a major pain point - there indeed is no easy way to do what these days most videos are recorded for. Very cool!

Carlo Thissen

@thissen_carlo

To all video creators: check out @editwithtype - the UX is slick

Lidia Vijga

@byvi_co

For our latest #startup review, we used Type Studio's tools to create a video review on Type Studio @editwithtype

Zara Nazim

@zaranazim

This is so useful! Thanks for creating it!

Jens Polomski

@Jens_Polo

If it's about video, all you need it @editwithtype

Richard Byrne

@rmbyrne

Trying out a new video editing tool right now and I just let out my first "whoa! that's awesome!" about any video editor in a very long time.
@editwithtype

Espree Devora

@EspreeDevora

Best way to edit a podcast with no podcasting experience is to use @editwithtype, they magically transcribe your audio/video file to easily edit like it's a word doc.

Languages currently supported

English
Spanish
French
Italian
German
Dutch
Norwegian
Danish
Finnish
Swedish
Turkish
Polish
Portugese
Romanian
Czech
Russian
Mandarin
Cantonese
Korean
Japanese
Hebrew
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
Malay
Indonesian
Urdu
Hindi
Marathi
Tamil
Bengali

More than a Video to Text converter

Type Studio is more than just turning your video into a text, more than sharing your video with a link, and more than doing a post on YouTube.

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Text-based video editing

With Type Studio you can not only turn your videos to text online but also edit them text-based. With the automatic transcription saves you can jump right into the text and can change the transcript to edit your video.

How do I convert a video to text?

Type Studio is a text-based video editor that means your audio will be converted into written text by nature. Signup to Type Studio, upload your video and our transcription service will start right away. It will be then automatically converted to text. This process is significantly faster than transcribing manually due to speech recognition. The accuracy is very high nowadays! And even if a word has been translated incorrectly, you can correct it quickly in Type Studios editor.

How can I convert online video to text?

Type Studio is a web app that you can use without installing any software to convert "video to text" and "audio to text". Yes, the machine transcription is very accurate and generates a transcript for your interviews, learning videos, YouTube videos, or whatever use-case you have. Besides downloading the transcripts you can add subtitles automated.

How do I convert YouTube videos to text for free?

Use Type Studio to convert video files into text. Just upload your audio and video files to Type Studio and we will transcribe your video into text automatically. Whether your video recording is .mp4 or .mov file format. No matter what language your video is in. We support the most common languages. You can even use only the audio file as long as you use the video formats mentioned above.