Convert video to text free & online.

Why use a video to text converter

Get the words out of your videos

Video is great for watching and terrible for searching, quoting or skimming. A transcript fixes that: once your video is text, you can find any moment with Ctrl+F, pull quotes for an article, or read a one-hour talk in ten minutes.

What people use transcripts for

• Notes from lectures and courses — read and search a recorded class instead of re-watching it.
• Blog posts and newsletters — turn a YouTube video or webinar into a written article.
• Interview and meeting records — keep an exact text record of what was said.
• Accessibility — give viewers who can't play sound a full text version.
• Translation — get the transcript and translate it into 35+ languages in the same step.

A transcript that reads like a document

Raw speech recognition output is one long run-on block. Corbeia joins the words into proper sentences and paragraphs, capitalizes them, and removes the repeated lines speech models sometimes produce on silence or music — so the TXT and Markdown files are ready to read or paste into Google Docs, Notion or Obsidian.

Paste it straight into your notes

When the transcript is ready, click Copy text and paste it into Google Docs, Word, Notion, ChatGPT or an email — no file to open. Need it as a file? Download transcript saves a .txt, and the Markdown version keeps headings for Notion and Obsidian.

Summarize a video with AI

A transcript is the fastest way to get a summary of a long video: convert it to text here, then paste the text into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and ask for the key points, a summary or action items.

Free, without an upload

Most online converters upload your video to a server and charge by the minute once a short free trial runs out. Corbeia runs the Whisper speech recognition model inside your browser instead, so there is no upload, no waiting in a queue, and no limit on how many videos you convert.

Accuracy

How accurate is the transcript?

On clear speech, Whisper — the model behind Corbeia — gets the large majority of words right, including names, numbers and technical terms that older dictation tools stumble on. Accuracy depends mostly on the recording, not the language:

• Best: one person speaking at a time, close to the microphone, little background music.
• Harder: people talking over each other, loud music, phone-call audio or heavy echo.

For interviews, lectures and anything you'll publish, choose High accuracy under Quality. It downloads a larger model once, then makes noticeably fewer mistakes than Fast. Always skim the text before you publish it — especially names and numbers.