Audio & Video Transcription — Speech to Text, SRT Subtitles & AI Summary

Convert audio to text and video to text in minutes. Paste a link to an MP3, MP4, WAV or other media file, a Google Drive or Dropbox share link, or a podcast feed, and get:

• the full transcript (TXT, Markdown, JSON)
• ready-to-use SRT and VTT subtitles
• speaker labels (who said what: Speaker A, Speaker B…)
• a short AI summary with key points and topics
• automatic language detection across 99 languages

All of this for $0.30 per hour of audio ($0.005 per minute). Speakers, subtitles and the summary are included. Failed files are free.

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Why use this transcription tool?

	This Actor
Price	$0.30 per audio hour, billed per started minute
Speaker labels (diarization)	✅ Included
SRT + VTT subtitles	✅ Included
AI summary, key points, topics	✅ Included
Word-level timestamps (JSON)	✅ Included
Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive links	✅
Podcast RSS & Apple Podcasts	✅
Charged for failed files	❌ Never
Monthly subscription	❌ None, pay only for what you transcribe

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Use cases

• Podcast transcription: turn every episode into text for show notes, blog posts and SEO.
• YouTube & social video subtitles: generate SRT files for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram Reels, CapCut, Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve.
• Meeting and interview transcription: transcribe Zoom, Google Meet or Teams recordings with speaker labels.
• Online courses and webinars: create captions and searchable lesson notes.
• Journalism and research: transcribe interviews, focus groups and field recordings.
• Content repurposing: use the AI summary and key points to write newsletters, social posts and articles.
• Accessibility: add captions so deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers can follow your videos.
• Automation and AI agents: feed transcripts into ChatGPT, Claude, n8n, Make or Zapier workflows.

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How to transcribe audio or video to text

1. Click Try for free / Start on this page.
2. Paste one or more audio or video links, or add a podcast feed.
3. Choose the language (or leave Detect automatically), speaker labels, AI summary and the output files you want.
4. Click Start. When the run finishes, open the Output tab.

How to get your files

1. In the Output table, find your file.
2. Click the SRT, VTT, Text or Markdown link. The file downloads or opens in your browser.
3. Upload the SRT file to YouTube (Subtitles → Upload file) or import it into your video editor.

You can also export the whole table as Excel, CSV or JSON with the Export button.

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Supported files and links

Audio formats: MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, OGG, OPUS, FLAC and more. Video formats: MP4, MOV, WEBM, MKV and more (the audio track is transcribed).

Links that work:

• Direct file links: https://example.com/interview.mp3
• Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/<id>/view (shared as Anyone with the link)
• Dropbox: any share link
• OneDrive: https://1drv.ms/... share links
• Podcasts: RSS feed URLs or https://podcasts.apple.com/... links (the newest episodes are transcribed)

Not supported: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Spotify, Facebook, X, Vimeo and SoundCloud page links. Download the file first, or use a direct link to the media file.

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Languages

The language is detected automatically. You can also choose it yourself, which is a little faster and more accurate for short files.

Popular languages include English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Arabic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Romanian, Greek, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Slovak, Vietnamese and Indonesian, plus many more.

Accuracy is highest for clear recordings in widely spoken languages. Speaker labels are not available for every language. When they are not, you still get the full transcript and subtitles without speaker names.

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Input options

Option	What it does	Default
Audio / video links	Files or share links to transcribe	—
Podcast feeds	RSS or Apple Podcasts links	—
Episodes per podcast	How many of the newest episodes to transcribe	3
Language	Auto-detect or a fixed language	Auto
Speaker labels	Mark who is speaking	On
AI summary	Summary, key points and topics	On
Output files	TXT, SRT, VTT, Markdown, JSON	TXT, SRT, VTT, MD
Characters per subtitle line	Subtitle line length (42 is the YouTube/Netflix standard)	42
Max minutes per file	Only the first N minutes are transcribed and charged	300
Files in parallel	How many files are processed at the same time	3

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Output example

Each file becomes one row in the results table:

{
  "title": "interview.mp3",
  "status": "succeeded",
  "language": "en",
  "durationSeconds": 2712,
  "minutesCharged": 46,
  "speakers": 2,
  "summary": "The guest explains how the company grew from ...",
  "keyPoints": ["Started in 2019 with two people", "..."],
  "topics": ["growth", "hiring"],
  "text": "Hello and welcome to ...",
  "srtUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/.../records/001-interview.srt",
  "vttUrl": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/.../records/001-interview.vtt",
  "txtUrl": "...",
  "mdUrl": "..."
}

Subtitle example (.srt):

1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,750
[Speaker A] Hello and welcome to the show.

2
00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,150
Today we talk about growing a small business.

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Pricing

$0.005 per audio minute = $0.30 per hour. Every started minute counts as one minute.

Audio length	Price
10-minute video	$0.05
45-minute podcast episode	$0.23
1-hour meeting	$0.30
10 hours of interviews	$3.00

• Speakers, SRT/VTT subtitles, Markdown, JSON and the AI summary are included.
• Failed files are free: broken links, private files and files without speech are not charged.
• Set a maximum cost per run in the run options. The Actor never goes over it: files that would exceed the limit are skipped and not charged.

Apify Free plan: you can transcribe up to 10 minutes per run to try the Actor. Upgrade your Apify plan to transcribe full files.

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Integrations and API

Run the transcriber from your own code or connect it to the tools you already use:

• Zapier, Make and n8n: start a transcription when a new file lands in Google Drive or Dropbox, then send the transcript to Google Docs, Notion, Slack or email.
• Google Sheets: export results with the Apify integration.
• AI agents: use it from ChatGPT or Claude through the Apify MCP server.
• REST API and SDKs: JavaScript and Python clients.

Example API input:

{
  "audioUrls": ["https://example.com/meeting.mp4"],
  "languageCode": "auto",
  "speakerLabels": true,
  "generateSummary": true,
  "outputFormats": ["txt", "srt", "vtt", "md"]
}

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Limits

• Up to 10 hours / 5 GB per file.
• Max minutes per file (default 300) protects you from unexpectedly long files.
• The maximum cost per run you set is always respected.

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Privacy and data security

• Files are processed by a professional speech-to-text provider and deleted from the provider right after processing.
• Results are stored only in your own Apify account (the dataset and key-value store of your run). You can delete them at any time.
• The developer of this Actor does not keep copies of your audio or transcripts.
• The Actor runs with limited permissions: it cannot access other data in your Apify account.

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FAQ

How accurate is the transcription? Accuracy is high for clear speech in widely spoken languages. Background noise, music, strong accents and people talking over each other reduce it. For the best results, use the clearest recording you have.

Can I transcribe a YouTube video? Not from a YouTube page link. Download the video or audio file first, upload it to Google Drive or Dropbox, and paste that share link.

How long does it take? Usually a few minutes for a one-hour file. Several files are processed in parallel.

Can I get subtitles burned into the video? No. You get standard SRT and VTT files that YouTube and every video editor can load.

What does "speaker labels" mean? The transcript shows who is speaking: Speaker A, Speaker B and so on. Names are not identified automatically.

My Google Drive link fails. What should I do? Make sure the file is shared as Anyone with the link. Very large Drive files can be blocked by Google. In that case, use Dropbox or a direct link.

Am I charged if a file fails? No. You pay only for minutes that were transcribed successfully.

Can I translate the transcript? The transcript is in the original language. You can translate the TXT or SRT file with any translation tool.

Something does not work? Open an issue in the Issues tab and include the input you used. We reply as soon as possible.

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