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TranscriptFox turns audio, video and documents into accurate, searchable, usable text: a video or audio link, an uploaded recording, a PDF, a scan or a photo of a page, typed or handwritten.

It reads the captions that come with the video or audio, removes timestamps, caption markup and repeated lines, and joins the pieces into sentences and paragraphs. When there are no captions, it turns the speech in the audio into text.

For a PDF, it reads the text stored in the file, page by page and in reading order, using Poppler under the GPL. Scanned pages and photos are read with Tesseract OCR under the Apache 2.0 license, after ImageMagick prepares the image. Handwriting is read on TranscriptFox’s own servers by two openly licensed models run with Ollama: Qwen Qwen3.5-4B under the Apache 2.0 license and Z.ai GLM-OCR under the MIT license. Words the two readings disagree on are highlighted so you can check them. The text is transcribed as written, not corrected or summarized. Their authors do not endorse TranscriptFox.

You can use it without an account. Guests and Free accounts see one labelled advertisement above a finished transcript, which may include Amazon and eBay links that earn us a commission; as an Amazon Associate, TranscriptFox earns from qualifying purchases. Paid plans see none. The free plan includes 1 transcript a day without an account, or 10 a day when signed in, each showing the first 10 minutes of a recording or the first 3 pages of a document, shared across the website, API and MCP. Daily allowances reset at 00:00 UTC. Plus and Pro give you full-length transcripts. See plans.

On Pro, the Interviews page turns a recorded interview into a transcript with each speaker’s words in separate passages, which you can check, correct and download. It runs on TranscriptFox’s own servers with these openly licensed speech models: NVIDIA Parakeet TDT 0.6B v2 and NVIDIA Streaming Sortformer 4spk v2, both under CC BY 4.0; NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Diarization under the NVIDIA OpenMDW 1.1 license; OpenAI Whisper large-v3 and large-v3-turbo, and Silero VAD, under the MIT license. TranscriptFox converts some of them to faster formats; their authors do not endorse TranscriptFox.

TranscriptFox is run by Vlad Orekhov. For questions, privacy requests or billing help, email vlad@transcriptfox.com.