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How to get a Snapchat video transcript

How to get a Snapchat video transcript: the steps that take the Snap of the chat and turn it into text, with the export that comes back. Free $0, 3 files a day.

3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short

The Snap of the chat is the only thing this service needs from Snapchat. The names of the speakers can be fixed afterwards. The file of the recording may be 30 minutes, and the free plan is $0 with 3 files a day.

How it works

How to get a Snapchat video transcript, step by step

  1. 1

    Save the Snap

    The Snap is saved in the chat, and the saved copy goes to the servers of Snapchat.

  2. 2

    Export it to Camera Roll

    The saved Snap is exported to Camera Roll, and from that moment the file is on the device.

  3. 3

    Send it to the engine

    The file of the video goes to the widget above, and the text comes back one segment per line.

  4. 4

    Read the first lines before you share them

    The first minute of the text shows whether the recording was clear. If a name is wrong there, it is wrong in the whole file.

  5. 5

    Keep the export next to the recording

    The text of the Snap of the chat lands in a file of its own. Keep it next to the recording and the two stay together.

The result

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.

The facts

How Snapchat stores the file, and what it says about it

What can go wrong

The copy on the device is made by you: the export to Camera Roll or the screenshot, because the Snap itself stays on the servers of Snapchat.

What usually fails

The Snap of a chat is not a file of your own until it is exported, so there is nothing to send to the engine before that.

Length of one file

up to 30 minutes on the free plan, no minute limit on Pro

Free plan

$0: 3 files a day, up to 30 minutes per file, no card

The case

What the recording does not give you

Say one word of a decision three weeks later and see whether you can find it in the Snap of the chat. A recording is kept, and a recording is not used: the text is what the next person opens. Our own engine reads the Snap of the chat once, keeps the time of every sentence and hands the text back as a document.

Tips

  • Turn on the split by speaker when more than two people talk in the Snap of the chat.

  • Give the speakers of the Snap of the chat their names in the editor, one time, and export again.

  • Send the audio track of the Snap of the chat when the platform gives you both.

  • The audio of the Snap of the chat is smaller than the video of the same call.

  • Export SRT when the Snap of the chat has to become a subtitled video.

FAQ

Questions about how to get a Snapchat video transcript

Can I search the text after I get a Snapchat video transcript?

Our own engine reads the Snap of the chat and gives the text back; the part the platform decides is only the download.

What are the steps to get a Snapchat video transcript?

For how to get a Snapchat video transcript, the text comes out of one upload: the file of the Snap of the chat goes to the engine and the text comes back.

What do I need before I get a Snapchat video transcript?

The recording of Snapchat is enough for the engine, and the text of it comes back with the time of every line.

Do I need an account to get a Snapchat video transcript?

Upload the Snap of the chat and read the result: our own engine writes down what it hears, with the time of every piece.

What is in the file after I get a Snapchat video transcript?

The file is all it takes: the Snap of the chat goes to our own engine and a document comes back.

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Speakers by name, a time on every line, export to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and Markdown.

3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps