Convert video to text, privately

Most video transcription tools ask you to upload the whole file and wait. Hushscript works differently: your browser prepares the video’s audio track first, so only audio–not your video–reaches the transcription service. Compatible tracks are copied without re-encoding and local conversion runs only when required. What comes back is a speaker-labeled transcript you can turn into subtitles, translate, or export as a document from the same job.

Your video never leaves your device

Drop an MP4, MOV, WebM, or MKV file and preparation starts in your browser. The page uses your device’s own processing, not a server, to separate the audio Hushscript needs from the video it does not. A compatible track is copied without re-encoding; only files that need conversion take the local conversion path. The video stays on your device throughout. Once the transcript is ready, the uploaded audio is deleted, and the transcript that remains is encrypted at rest.

Convert video to text in three steps

Drop your video, or merge several related recordings (say a session split across parts) into one ordered transcript. Let the browser extract the audio, then sign up to transcribe the rest. Every transcript comes back with each speaker separated automatically, so a meeting or interview reads like the conversation it was rather than one run-on block; rename “Speaker 1” to a real name in a click. The 30-second preview is free and needs no account. Only once you’re happy with it do you add a payment method for your first 30 free minutes.

Turn the transcript into subtitles

A transcript and a set of subtitles are the same underlying data, timed differently. Once your video is transcribed, export captions directly, with no separate step and no separate tool. Hushscript’s subtitle generator produces SRT, VTT, ASS, TTML, SBV, or LRC, every line already timed to the audio and labeled by speaker. Need styled captions with fonts and positioning? ASS handles that. Building for a broadcast platform? TTML is the one it expects. All of it is included with the transcript at no extra charge; there’s no subtitle add-on to buy separately. For a step-by-step, see how to create SRT subtitles from a video.

Translate the transcript into other languages

Need the video understood by an audience that doesn’t speak the original language? Pick one or more target languages before you start, and translation runs inside the same job as transcription, with no second upload and no separate tool. Choose from 13 target languages, a smaller, separate list from the roughly 99 languages Hushscript can auto-detect and transcribe: the source is whatever’s actually spoken in your video, and the targets are what you choose the output in. Translated transcripts export in the same 21 formats as the original, including translated SRT and VTT, so a translated caption file drops onto the video exactly like the source-language one would. Translation is billed as a surcharge on top of transcription, roughly a quarter of the transcript’s length per language.

Every export format, including editor timelines

Download the transcript as TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV, TSV, Markdown, HTML, RTF, XML, JSON, DOCX, PDF, XLSX, ODS, ODT, ASS, TTML, SBV, LRC, FCPXML, or EDL: 21 formats total, every one clean and unwatermarked. The last two are built for editors: FCPXML carries timeline markers into Final Cut, and EDL does the same for Premiere, Resolve, and most other NLEs, so you can jump straight to what someone said instead of scrubbing the timeline by ear. Need several formats for one project? Prebuilt archive packs bundle them: a Subtitle pack for caption files, an Editor pack for FCPXML and EDL together, or All formats for everything at once, shipped as a password-protected .husharchive with a manifest and checksums, or a standard AES-encrypted ZIP if that’s what the other end needs.

Any common video format

MP4, MOV, WebM, MKV, and more: if your device or camera produced it, Hushscript can probably extract the audio and transcribe it. Just need the audio file, not a transcript? Convert video to audio free in your browser, picking MP3, WAV, or another format. Have something unusual instead? Convert it for free first; conversion stays on your device. When you choose transcription, only the extracted audio is sent, and it is deleted when the transcript is ready.

Free, no subscription

Hushscript isn’t free. Transcription runs on top-tier AI, and that’s the part that costs. It is pay-as-you-go: no monthly fee, nothing to cancel, buy minutes only when you need them. Verify a payment method and 30 minutes unlock free. A card’s temporary $1 hold is released immediately, never charged. After that, pay as you go. Packs run from $1.99 for 45 minutes up to $19.99 for 30 h (1,800 min); see pricing for the full table. When you want more than the transcript, choose Generate Insights: one optional free run creates summaries, actions, decisions, open questions, quotes, chapters, speaker topics, subject clusters, export suggestions, terminology and profanity findings, and cleanup for the current transcript revision. Review cleanup in Edit; nothing changes until you approve it. The free browser tools convert formats and extract audio with no account and nothing uploaded; they simply do not transcribe speech.