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Transcribe a Twitch broadcast to text
Twitch to text: the words of a past broadcast as text with the start and the end time of every line, so a clip is found by a word in the exported file.
3 files a day up to 30 minutes, free99+ languagesSpeaker separation and timestamps
In short
Download the video of the past broadcast, upload it here, and the words of the stream come back as text with the start and the end time of every line. One file is up to 30 minutes, so a long broadcast is cut into parts. The free plan is $0.
How to transcribe a Twitch broadcast
- 1
Take the file of the broadcast
The past broadcast of the channel is a video file with the sound of the stream in it: the talk of the streamer and the game in one track. Save it as it is, the way the channel published it.
- 2
Cut a long broadcast into parts
A file holds up to 30 minutes. A stream of three hours is cut by you into three files of an hour, and every part is uploaded on its own with its own timecodes.
- 3
Search the text instead of the video
Put the parts on the widget above, leave the language on automatic detection, and export the text: every line shows the minute it starts at, so the clip of thirty seconds is found by a word in the file.
What you get
- TXT
Plain text for an email, a note or a chat
- SRT
Subtitles for video editors and platforms
- VTT
Subtitles for a browser and a website
- CSV
A table: time, speaker, text
- DOCX
A Word document with speakers and times
- Markdown
Text with headings for notes
What the transcript of a stream holds
cut into parts before the upload; every part is a file of its own
not in the transcript: a chat message is not sound
SRT and VTT carry the start and the end time of every line
The case
Why a stream of hours needs a text
A stream of a whole evening is one long file, and the part that matters is often a minute in the middle of it. Scrolling a video to find that minute costs more time than the stream itself. A text version of the same recording turns the search into a word.
Tips
Cut the broadcast into parts of an hour, not into parts of ten minutes.
Put the date of the stream into the name of the file.
Export SRT for the clip that leaves the channel.
Questions this page answers
Is the chat of the stream in the transcript?
No. The chat is text on a screen and not sound, so the transcript holds only what was said out loud. When the chat matters, it has to be read from the page, not from the file.
What happens to the music and the game?
The engine works on the speech in the recording. Music and game sounds are not words, so the transcript carries the talk of the streamer. We have not measured what a loud moment does to the result, and the timecode shows where to listen again.
How long may one file be?
up to 30 minutes, on every plan. A broadcast longer than that is cut into parts and uploaded one after the other; the service does not cut the file for you.
Can the transcript become subtitles?
Yes. SRT and VTT are two of the six export formats, and both carry the start and the end time of every line, so the file goes under the video without a second piece of work.
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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