You can download your Facebook live videos to your computer after the stream has ended, if you have not deleted the video.
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Facebook video to quotes with timestamps in English
Facebook video to quotes with timestamps in English: send the file and get the text with the timecodes. One file may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short
With the Facebook video the engine writes the list of quotations: the transcript first, then the sections Who spoke, Quotes with timestamps, Themes. The speech is in English, the free plan gives 3 files a day, and one file is up to 30 minutes.
How to get the file and turn it into quotes with timestamps
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Find the Live tab
On a Page the live broadcasts are in the Videos tab, and on the web they are in the Live tab
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Upload the file
The widget takes the file of the Facebook video as it is and marks the speech as English, so the engine does not have to guess what it is about.
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Turn the text into the list of quotations
The instruction of the task asks for the list of quotations and puts the answer about the Facebook video into the sections Who spoke, Quotes with timestamps, Themes; a claim that is not in the recording is not written.
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Mark the language of the speech
The recording of the Facebook video is in English, and that is one of the 99+ languages the engine reads; the setting of the widget says English and the list of quotations follows.
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Check the file before the upload
A live video can be downloaded one by one from a profile, from a Page or from Meta Business Suite
What comes back from the engine
- TXT
One segment per line, the way a person wrote it down. It is the format to paste into a ticket, a chat or a document.
- TXT, CSV
The start and the end time of every segment, and the speakers named separately when you ask for it.
- SRT, VTT
SRT and VTT with the time of every line, so the recording can carry its own subtitles.
- Markdown, DOCX
The transcript is edited through the API and exported as Markdown for a wiki, or as DOCX for a review.
What Facebook keeps, and what it says about it
A live video can be downloaded one by one from a profile, from a Page or from Meta Business Suite.
A new live broadcast can be replayed, downloaded or shared for 30 days, and after the notice about the old ones you have 90 days to take them.
up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro
$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card
$10 a month when you pay yearly ($120 a year), or $20 a month
The case
What the recording does not give you
You can download your Facebook live videos to your computer after the stream has ended, if you have not deleted the video. The English speech of the Facebook video is read first, and the list of quotations is what the editor of the interview gets out of the transcript.
Tips
The instruction of the list of quotations is already written.
A recording of the Facebook video in English is read as English.
A file over 30 minutes has to be cut into parts; the Pro plan takes a recording of any length.
Questions about Facebook video and quotes with timestamps
What does the Facebook keep for the Facebook video?
You can download your Facebook live videos to your computer after the stream has ended, if you have not deleted the video. The file of the Facebook video is the input of the engine, and the list of quotations is written from it.
Which problems can come with the Facebook video?
A new live broadcast can be replayed, downloaded or shared for 30 days, and after the notice about the old ones you have 90 days to take them. The engine does not change the file of the Facebook video; it reads it as it is and writes the list of quotations.
What comes back after the English Facebook video is read?
the list of quotations in the sections Who spoke, Quotes with timestamps, Themes, with the time of every line of the recording of the Facebook video.
How long may the file be, and how much is free?
One file may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan, and the free plan gives 3 files a day for the list of quotations.
Where does the file of the Facebook video wait?
On the Facebook. The facts of the table above name the place where the file of the Facebook video is kept and the way it comes off.
Related pages
- The same task on facebook video to text meeting action items ruThe same task on another recording, with the same steps and the same sections.
- Interview to quotes with timestampsThe page of the task: the instruction that is written for it and an example of the answer.
- Transcribe audio to textWhat the service does with a file: the formats of the export, the limits and the plans.
- Facebook video to textWhere Facebook keeps the file, what it holds and what the engine does with it.
Sources
- WFacebook help: save your live video to your computer (read 2026-10-24)www.facebook.com · checked
- AMeta newsroom: the storage policy of the live videos (read 2026-10-24)about.fb.com · checked
- TTranscription service page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
- TPricing page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
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3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps