The .txt export and the copy button both hand you plain text with no timing at all.
What you export is a transcript cut on time, not subtitles already broken into display lines. Where each caption starts and ends is yours to settle in your editor.
Video to Text
Convert Video to Text and Export Subtitles
Upload a video and PodText transcribes its audio track. What comes back is searchable text plus separate subtitle files — your own video file is never altered.
product-walkthrough.mp4product-walkthrough.txt .md .srt .vtt60 one-time signup credits · No credit card required · Video with spoken audio required
Create a transcript
Add a supported link or upload a recording to get searchable text.
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Inside the upload
The Picture Never Enters the Transcript
PodText reads one track out of your file. Here is what happens to the rest of it.
- product-walkthrough.mp4The file you upload
- video streamNot used
- audio streamThe only track transcribed
- playback MP3Extracted from that track, for listening back
- 00:12:10 · 00:12:20 · 00:12:30Transcribed into timed segments
Once the transcript is ready, the player on your transcript page plays this extracted audio — not the picture. The copy of the video you started with is untouched.
One Passage, Four Ways to Write It
The words are identical in all four files. Only the timing notation changes, and one file carries no timing at all.
product-walkthrough.txt
Open the project and choose the recording you want to review.product-walkthrough.md
# product-walkthrough**[12:10]** Open the project and choose the recording you want to review.product-walkthrough.srt
100:12:10,000 --> 00:12:20,000Open the project and choose the recording you want to review.product-walkthrough.vtt
WEBVTT00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:20.000Open the project and choose the recording you want to review.
Your Video Does Not Stay Here Long
What we hold on to after a transcript finishes, and what we let go of.
- product-walkthrough.mp4
- playback MP3
Deleted 7 days after the transcript finishes, when the transcript was paid for with your one-time signup credits.
Transcript · timestamps · AI content
Kept for as long as you keep the transcript.
Transcribed with subscription or top-up credits instead? Both files stay until you delete the transcript yourself.
After the audio goes, your transcript page marks it as expired and the text, timestamps and AI content carry on unchanged.
Not for This Page? Here Is Where It Goes
This page takes an uploaded file:
.mp4 .mov .webm500 MB · 6 hours
- A YouTube page link
- YouTube to Text
- A podcast episode link
- Podcast to Text
- An audio file, or a direct link to audio
- Audio to Text
- A recorded meeting
- Meeting Transcription
A direct link that points at a video file is turned away — direct links are recognised for audio formats only. Upload the video instead.
Transcription covers speech. Slides, whiteboards and subtitles already burned into the picture are not read, so the video needs someone speaking in it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Upload MP4, MOV, or WebM files containing spoken audio. Each uploaded file can be up to 500 MB and 6 hours.
Use the page built for that source instead — this page is for files you upload. A direct link that points at a video file is refused: direct links are recognised for audio formats only.
The transcript represents spoken audio, with segment-level time references. It does not extract text from slides or identify visual events; check the original video when visual context matters.
Export TXT, Markdown, SRT, and VTT. TXT and Markdown carry text into writing tools; SRT and VTT provide timed cues for compatible editors and players. Check the destination tool for format support.
Not here. PodText transcribes the audio track, so the player on your transcript page gives you that audio, not the picture. Your own copy of the video is untouched, and subtitle files are exported separately rather than written into it.
Noise, music, language, and speech clarity all affect the transcript. What you export is a transcript cut on time, not subtitles already broken into display lines, so settle each caption boundary in your editor. Processing time varies with duration and service availability — review the result before publishing.
Create Text and Subtitles from Your Video
Upload a completed video, review its spoken content, and export TXT, Markdown, SRT, and VTT.