Transcribe a video when captions are unavailable
Understand caption failures and use a saved short video for on-device speech recognition.
Check what the link tool can access
A public video can still have no exposed caption track. Captions may be disabled, removed, restricted or temporarily unavailable from the source. A failed request does not prove that the video has no speech.
Switch to a permitted saved file
Choose Upload video and select a saved copy you are allowed to use. TranscriptVid does not download private or restricted videos. Local transcription supports files up to five minutes and 10 MB.
Transcribe the audio you actually have
Choose the spoken language, then select Transcribe file. The browser downloads the model on first use and processes the audio locally. Files with unsupported codecs or no audible speech produce an explanation instead of sample text.
Choose the right export
TXT works for notes and clean script references. SRT and VTT include estimated source-relative timing. Review the recognized words and timestamps before publishing or quoting them.