Upload a video (a recorded meeting, a lecture, a screen recording, a clip from your phone) and Wave AI turns everything said in it into text, with speakers labelled, timestamps and a short summary of what was covered.
Drop a video file here
MP4, MOV or WebM, up to 200MB. Free, no account needed.
The tool needs the video file itself. Where to find it depends on where the video lives:
MP4, MOV and WebM. If your video is something else (MKV, AVI, WMV), convert it to MP4 first, or export just the audio and upload that.
Upload the audio instead of the picture; the transcript is the same. On a Mac, open the video in QuickTime Player and choose File → Export As → Audio Only to get a small .m4a. Most video editors have a similar audio-only export.
Yes. When the transcript has timing, Download .srt and Download .vtt buttons appear next to it. The subtitle generator page (linked below) explains how to add them in YouTube, Premiere Pro and CapCut.
No. It transcribes what is spoken in the audio track. Slides, captions and other on-screen text are not read.
Yes. Along with the full transcript you get an AI summary with the key points and any action items, in the same language as the video.
Related: Free Audio Transcription: Transcribe Audio to Text with AI · Free Subtitle Generator: SRT and VTT from Any Video · Free YouTube Transcript Generator · Transcribe Any Video to Text in Minutes
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