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Free video tools that run in your browser: transcribe speech to text, SRT and VTT subtitles with speaker labels, and turn any video into a GIF. No upload, no watermark, no sign-up.

Video is the file type people are least willing to upload and the one most services insist on uploading — it is large, it is often personal, and transcription in particular has usually meant handing a recording to a third party along with everything said in it.

Both tools here avoid that entirely. The transcriber downloads a speech recognition model into your browser once and runs it on your own machine, on the GPU where one is available; the GIF encoder decodes and re-encodes frames locally. Your video never leaves the device, and after the first load the transcriber works with the network switched off.

The honest trade-off is speed and power. A local model on a laptop is slower than a datacentre GPU, and a long recording takes real time to get through — the tool shows a progress bar and an estimate rather than pretending otherwise. In exchange there is no upload wait, no per-minute charge and no copy of your recording anywhere but your own disk.

Frequently asked questions

Is the video transcription really free and unlimited? +

Yes. There is no per-minute charge, no monthly quota and no account, because the transcription runs on your computer rather than on a server we pay for. The only cost to you is the time your own machine takes and the one-off model download.

Is my video uploaded for transcription? +

No, and this is the main reason to use it. The speech model is downloaded to your browser and runs there, so the audio never leaves your device. Nothing is transmitted, nothing is stored, and no one else ever has a copy of what was said.

How long does transcribing take? +

It depends on your hardware and the model size you pick. On a machine with WebGPU support it is typically a fraction of the recording length; on a CPU-only machine it can be longer than the recording. The tool shows progress and a running estimate while it works, so you are not left guessing.

What formats can I get the transcript in? +

Plain text, timestamped text, SRT and VTT subtitle files. Speaker labels and translation are available too, so a two-person interview comes out attributed rather than as one undifferentiated block.

Why is my GIF so large? +

GIF is an old format with a 256-colour palette and no inter-frame compression worth the name, so size is driven almost entirely by frame count and dimensions. Cutting the frame rate, trimming the clip or reducing the width will shrink it far more than any quality setting.

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