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Transcribe Video to Text

Upload a video file or paste a YouTube link, and Rask AI turns speech into a timestamped transcript in 135+ languages - with speaker labels, editable segments, and long videos up to five hours.

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How to Convert Video to Text in 3 Steps

Upload Your Video

Simply upload video files from your device - drop in a file, paste a YouTube or Google Drive link, either way. All popular video formats work, and the common formats are covered: MP4, MOV, WEBM, MKV, MP3, WAV.

Press Translate

Pick the language and let the video to text AI do the pass. The AI video engine identifies multiple speakers, separates each voice from the background mix, and timestamps every segment.

Download Your Transcript

Check the text in the built in editor beside the original, fix anything that needs fixing, and download your video transcript as an .srt file.
Three steps and about a minute for a short clip. Upload, transcribe video, download - and your video content becomes readable text you can search, edit, translate, and reuse. Not sure it fits your video files? Try transcribing video in Rask AI and see the transcript for yourself - that's easier than you think.

Why You Need an AI Video to Text Tool

Convert Video into an International Product

Whether you run a small business or a large corporation, transcribe video to text to make it work everywhere. Convert video into 135+ languages in just a few clicks, then reuse the same transcript to create subtitles, dub the video with a cloned voice, or lip-sync the result. One recording, a global audience.

Edit Anything the AI Gets Wrong

No AI is perfect, and we accept it. When you automatically transcribe video to text, names, terms, and cultural details sometimes need a human review. The editor puts the original and the translation side by side: fix a word, reassign a speaker, pick one of the AI's translation alternatives, or drag the timestamps until the text lines up with the speech. The video transcription updates as you type.

Embrace Quick Turnaround

No more waiting. Rask AI transcribes a short clip in about a minute, and automatic transcription of long recordings runs in the background while you do something else. Accuracy depends on the audio rather than the file size - clean speech gives you accurate text right away, heavy background noise needs a short pass in the editor.

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Options for Using Our Video to Text Converter

Businesses

Convert video to text in different languages and reach an international audience. Meetings, webinars, and group discussions turn into searchable transcripts your team can skim in seconds instead of rewatching an hour long call - the editor has a search box, so finding one phrase in a two-hour recording takes a moment. Transcribing interviews and sales calls works the same way: upload, transcribe video, share the project with a colleague.

Boost Your Blog

Turn any YouTube video into a text version you can publish. Upload video files, run the video transcription, and get a full transcript plus subtitles - enough raw material for a blog post, show notes, a newsletter, and a week of social captions. For any content creator, that is the fastest way to get more out of one recording, and content creation stops eating your whole week.

Educational Institutions

Transform lectures and online courses into written text and help students learn more efficiently. With speaker labels for seminars and a transcript next to the original video, students read at their own pace, take notes, click a line to jump to the exact moment a concept was explained, and follow the material in a second language. One lecture, and the video content works for a reader as well as a viewer.

Stellar reviews

4.7 / 5 · 270 reviews on G2 & Product Hunt
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THE BEST AI video translation tool

The user interface is exceptionally intuitive, making the entire process ultra-easy for me. I've particularly appreciated Rask's proficiency in handling technical and specialized language commonly found in online courses. The translations consistently maintain accuracy and a natural tone.

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Fausto M.
Content creator
Small-Business
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Probably the best AI dubbing software on the market right now

It has an easy to use interface where both the original language and the translation can be edited. And the clone voices are quite good. In totality a top tool right now in the market. I'm the host of a local podcast that we would like to internationalize - translating it to several languages and sending it out again using the original voices, now cloned and speaking English.

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Bent D.
Board Member
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Media
5
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5

Great AI software for delivering content worldwide

The most helpful feature is to edit the translated transcript and being able to redub the video. The voice cloning feature is very accurate - that is great for delivering the content of a known guest, that people know how their voice sounds. Now they recognize the voice and understand the message.

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Ricardo R.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
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A great discovery that saved a lot of work!

The easy straightforward way to use it, the fact to be able to edit the translated text before rendering the final versions - we work with videos that need compliance approval for the text, so for us this is an important feature, together with the fact that the voice cloning is very well achieved. It makes it easier for us to respond quickly to client changes.

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Sebastiaan V.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Media
5
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5

Not perfect, but almost...

You don't need any previous knowledge, you just sign up and start translating and dubbing your videos. The possibility to correct the translations helps to get exceptional results. I have done a project of about 30 videos of about 25 minutes each in 2 languages and the results were excellent.

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Alexander M.
CEO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Media
4
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5

Amazing

I used Rask to translate 18 episodes of a podcast from the original Italian. I cloned my own voice and used library voices for all the other people involved. The result is amazing. My cloned voice sounds like my own voice (with a better accent). Rask allowed me to translate an Italian podcast into English in just 3 days.

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Federica C.
Podcaster
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Media
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5

AI-based video translation service that breaks down language barriers

The most impressive feature is the AI's ability to maintain the speaker's original voice while translating the content. This is a game-changer for online educators like myself looking to reach a global audience. French being my first language, it was difficult for me to reach students from UK, US, etc. But with this tool, I have access to a bigger market.

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Christian L.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Education
4
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5

Fantastic translation tool with some room for improvement

I'm a Canadian YouTuber who's always wanted to translate my content to the french language. I've used it on a couple of my videos to date, and have to say I'm quite impressed with the cloned voice feature. Planning on using it for 3-4 videos per month to bring my french channel back to life without a huge time commitment.

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Griffin M.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Media

Make YouTube Videos for a Worldwide Audience: Pros of Multilingual Content

Even if you started your youtube channel for a local market, a worldwide audience can be surprisingly profitable. Convert video to text once and watch what happens to your view rate. And that's not all - here is the full suite of advantages a video to text converter gives you.

Get One Universal Script

Convert video to text and you get a script to work from everywhere: notes, SEO copy, subtitles, a summary you write yourself. Pull key points and quotes straight from the video transcription, save hours of retyping, and keep one source of truth for every language version of the video.

Boost SEO Optimization

Video to text is not only about viewers. Search engines cannot watch a video — they read it. A transcript on the page gives Google, Bing, and AI assistants real text to index, so your video content starts ranking for the words actually spoken in it. That is why youtube videos with captions and a published transcript keep earning traffic long after the upload.

Make Your Content Accessible

Captions open your video to people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and to everyone scrolling with the sound off in a train or an open office. Silent viewing is the norm now, and a video with subtitles keeps that viewer watching. Add a foreign language version and you make your content accessible in markets you have never sold to.

Publish Your Subtitles Anywhere

Create and edit your transcription, translate it if you need to, and generate subtitles you can download as an .srt file. Drop that file into YouTube, Vimeo, or your own player - or export the video with the subtitles already burned in, if you would rather not manage a separate track at all.

Add Subtitles to Your YouTube Video

But as you may guessed, we have another surprise. Do you want to insert your subs within a YouTube editor? Or, do you need some text convert options? Our tool allows you to do so. Select among the subtitle formats (including a plain TXT format, of course), and just download it. You can now add your text files to the YouTube subtitle editor and boost your video within search engines. Add your subtitles local file into Google Drive, a Word document, or any other text editor, and you get ready-made notes or a scenario.

All in all, text transcription offers a huge range of options – just know how to use them and where to get high-quality transcripts.

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