What video formats do you support for transcription?

We transcribe MOV, AVI, and MKV alongside MP4, plus audio formats including MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC, and OGG. Upload the file exactly as it came off your screen recorder or camera - we pull the audio track out of the video container automatically, so there is nothing to convert first.

How accurate are the MP4 transcripts?

Scribe delivers leading accuracy, with support for 90+ languages, and holds up on the compressed, far-from-mic audio MP4s often carry. Laptop-mic screen recordings, echoing lecture halls, and noisy event floors come back as clean, editable text with speaker labels, word-level timestamps, and audio event tags.

Can I edit the transcript after it's generated?

Click any word to correct it and jump to that frame of the video in one click. Split or merge segments, reassign speakers, and retime lines directly in the editor - every edit stays in sync with the MP4's own timeline, so captions still land exactly when lines are spoken.

What export formats are available?

Export SRT or VTT caption files that drop straight onto your video, or download TXT, DOCX, PDF, JSON, or HTML for notes, docs, and publishing. Every caption is cut to word-level timestamps taken from the MP4 itself, so lines appear exactly when they are spoken in the footage.

Fast and accurate MP4 to text conversion

Upload a screen recording, lecture capture, or event footage and we extract the audio track and return an accurate, timestamped transcript in 90+ languages

InterviewsIdentify every speaker

MeetingsReady to summarize

PresentationsSearchable transcripts

Interviews.pdf

How to convert MP4 to text in three steps

Upload the file you already have, let Scribe separate the speech from the video, and export. No conversion, no re-encoding, no extra software.

1

Upload your MP4 file

Drag and drop the MP4 straight from your desktop or camera roll. We pull the audio track out of the video automatically, so there is nothing to extract or convert first.

2

Edit your transcript instantly

Words carry timestamps that match your video’s timecode, so you scrub straight back to the exact moment a line was said and fix it in context.

3

Export in any format you need

Download SRT or VTT captions that drop straight onto your video, or take TXT, DOCX, PDF, JSON, or HTML for notes, docs, and publishing.

Not just transcription. Video understanding

Scribe reads the audio buried inside your MP4 and returns a transcript that stays anchored to the footage: who spoke, when, and what happened around them.

#1 Accuracy

MP4 audio is often compressed and captured far from the microphone. Scribe returns clean, editable text from laptop mics, echoing lecture halls, and noisy event floors alike.

Edit the transcripts

Correct a word and jump to that frame of the video in one click. Split segments, reassign speakers, and retime lines without ever losing sync with the footage.

Amidst the outer atmosphere of the planet Aurora, the sky shimmered with fractured light, as though the planet's veil were made of stained glass suspended in space.

Sensors pulsed with irregular patterns, the kind no algorithm could quite reconcile.

Amidst the outer atmosphere of the planet Aurora, the sky shimmered with fractured light, as though the planet's veil were made of stained glass suspended in space.

90+ Languages and accents

Scribe detects the language on its own, so a lecture capture that drifts between English and Mandarin comes back as one coherent transcript. 90+ languages are covered, including Malayalam, Cantonese, and Serbian.

Japanese

Hindi

Polish

Swedish

Mandarin

Vietnamese

French

Wide variety of formats

Upload MOV, AVI, and MKV video alongside your MP4s, plus MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC, and OGG audio. Export to TXT, DOCX, PDF, JSON, SRT, VTT, or HTML.

Audio Event Tagging

Applause at a keynote, laughter in a seminar, a door closing off-screen: Scribe tags non-speech sounds so the transcript reflects the whole room, not just the words.

Speaker Timestamps

Scribe labels up to 32 speakers and stamps every word in time, so a panel captured on one camera reads as a clean, attributed script of the footage.

MP4 Transcript Export Formats

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Transcribe MP4 to TXT

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Transcribe MP4 to DOCX

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Transcribe MP4 to PDF

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Transcribe MP4 to JSON

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Transcribe MP4 to HTML

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Transcribe MP4 to SRT

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Transcribe MP4 to AVID

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Transcribe MP4 to VTT

Millions of words transcribed, and counting

“I use ElevenLabs primarily for transcribing audio messages, and I find its accuracy to be a major highlight. This precision allows me to analyze students' reading fluency effectively, even when the speaker is a young student still learning to read, which is crucial for understanding each student's progress.”
Pedro A.
Head of technology
“Perfect for transcribing interviews - and the voice quality is amazing when preparing for a speech.”
Izabela M.
Customer Experience Researcher
“Remarkable inference speed of the Scribe v2 model by ElevenLabs, delivering near real-time latency on transcription requests, significantly faster than other models we've tried.”
Vedaswaroop I.
Founder

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Fast and accurate MP4 to text conversion

Fast and accurate MP4 to text conversion