Guides

How-tos for getting text and subtitles out of your recordings, written around what people actually use FreeTranscribe for: meetings, lectures, interviews, podcasts and social video. Where a guide makes a claim about accuracy or privacy, it shows how we tested it.

• How to transcribe a video to text for free

  The whole process, from dropping in a file to exporting text, timestamps or subtitles, without an account or an upload.

• How accurate is free AI transcription? We tested it

  We ran 100 public test recordings through both accuracy settings, clean, noisy and phone-quality, and measured the word error rate.

• How to add subtitles to a YouTube video

  Make an SRT file from your video, upload it in YouTube Studio, and fix the timing and line length so captions are easy to read.

• How to create SRT subtitles from a video

  Generate timed SRT captions for any video and pick the right caption style for long videos or short social clips.

• SRT vs VTT: which subtitle format should you use?

  What each format looks like, what the differences actually mean, and which one each platform and player expects.

• How to transcribe audio or video on iPhone and Android

  Get a file from Photos, Voice Memos or WhatsApp into a browser transcriber, and what to expect from a phone on long recordings.

• Does a transcription site upload your files? How to check

  Three tests anyone can run to see whether a "private" transcription tool really keeps your recording on your device.

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