Transcribe Audio to Text

Automatically transcribe speech or audio to text in just a few clicks. No software to download—upload your audio file below to get started.

Upload audio

Convert audio or speech to text in seconds

Need an audio transcription fast? Kapwing lets you quickly transcribe a voice recording and other forms of audio in just a few clicks. There's no software to download—our audio to text tool is available entirely online. Once your audio has been automatically transcribed, you can download your transcription as a SRT, VTT, or TXT file.

Here's how it works: Kapwing's AI-powered software takes your audio file and automatically creates a transcription in whatever language you select. From there, you can download your transcription, add subtitles, or even edit the transcribed text to your liking. Kapwing supports popular audio formats like MP3 and WAV, and the final output is a word-by-word transcription of all spoken audio in your file. It's simple, easy, and fast—your audio will convert to text in only a few seconds.

How to Transcribe Audio to Text

Upload an audio file
Click the 'Upload audio' button and select an audio file from your computer. You can also drag and drop a file inside the editor.
Transcribe the audio
Select 'Subtitles' from the menu to the left and then click on 'Auto subtitles.’ Choose the language you want from the dropdown and Kapwing will automatically create an audio transcription. You can make quick edits to your transcription from here.
Download transcription
Click on the download icon that's just above the transcript editor. Choose the transcript file format you prefer. You can download your transcript as an SRT, VTT, or TXT file.

Transcribe audio recordings in a few clicks

Automatic transcriptions for everyone

Kapwing's audio transcriber takes the hassle out of transcription with automatic tools that turn your audio, voiceover, and MP3 files into text in seconds. Our AI-powered transcriptions are fast, accurate, and turn-key—and editing the output is simple if you need to make revisions or corrections. All popular audio formats are supported and you don't need to download anything; our audio to text generator is available online.

Download transcripts in popular formats

Transcripts have a wide variety of uses, including subtitles and closed captions. Kapwing makes using your transcripts easy by supporting all popular formats, including SRT, VTT, and even a basic TXT file. If you want to overlay your transcript to a video, you can do that too from the same tool. Downloads are one-click and available instantly.

Edit all of your transcripts online

Kapwing is a web-based editing platform for all of your editing needs. Once you've created your audio or video transcripts with Kapwing, you can make direct edits to the full transcript from our online editor—just click the section you'd like to edit and make changes instantly. All of your transcribed files can be downloaded from there, or safely stored on Kapwing.

Affordable audio transcripts for any budget

Kapwing's Pro plan unlocks our automatic transcription tool and starts as low as $16 per month for annual plans. There are no credits or hidden pricing—you'll get unlimited audio and video transcripts for one low price. Plus, you'll also get access to all of Kapwing's other tools, including our text to speech software,AI-powered video generation, and a fully-featured audio editor.

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 transcribe audio to text?

Upload your audio file to Kapwing and then click on the 'Subtitles' button from the left sidebar. Then select 'Auto subtitles' and choose your preferred language from the dropdown—Kapwing will then automatically transcribe your audio into text, which you can edit and change.

How do I download an audio transcription?

After you automatically transcribe your audio file with Kapwing, click on the download icon above the transcription editor and choose the file type you prefer. Transcriptions can be downloaded as SRT, VTT, or TXT files.

Can I convert video to text, too?

Yes, Kapwing's video transcriber is built on the same AI-powered technology we use to transcribe audio files. You can upload a variety of video files to Kapwing, select the 'Auto subtitles' feature, and then download a transcript of your video. It's fast and easy.

How quickly can I convert audio into text?

Kapwing's audio transcriber is almost instant—it takes just a few clicks to get started, and your transcription will be finished seconds later. You might take a few extra moments to edit or modify the transcript to your liking.

How accurate are automatic transcriptions?

Kapwing's automatic audio to text tools are highly accurate. Some auto-transcripts may need to be revised to perfect accuracy, but you'll save lots of time compared to transcribing audio files yourself—or even paying for a transcription service.

Why should I transcribe my audio files?

Transcriptions help make your audio and video content more accessible. You can use transcriptions to provide full text transcriptions, written summaries, subtitles, and closed captions. Many people prefer to read rather than listen or watch, and transcribing your audio to text gives them that option.

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

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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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