Vimeo video to text
Vimeo video to text: upload the video from Vimeo and get the text of it with a timecode on every segment, the speakers on request, and TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV or DOCX out. Free $0, 3 files a day.
Upload the video from Vimeo and our own transcription engine returns the text of it. One file may be up to 30 minutes. The export comes as TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT or CSV, and as DOCX on Pro.
How to get the file and turn it into text
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Open the page of the video
The video is opened on vimeo.com, where the file can be taken; the embedded player does not work for it.
- 2
Press Download
The Download button under the player gives the file of the video when the owner of the video allowed it.
- 3
Mind the life of the link
A link of the API lives 24 hours, so the file is better taken while the link is fresh.
- 4
Send the file to the engine
Drop the file on the widget above, or pick it from the device. Set the language, switch the speaker split on when more than one person talks, and send.
- 5
Read it, fix a name, export
The text comes back one segment per line, with the start and the end time of every piece. Fix a name in the editor and export TXT, Markdown, SRT, VTT, CSV or DOCX.
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 Vimeo keeps, and what it gives
- Where the file is
A viewer can take a video only from the page of it on vimeo.com: the embedded player never gives the file.
- What the file is
The file is the video of the player in the quality that the owner of the video allowed.
- What can go wrong
When the owner switched the Downloads switch off under Share and in the viewer permissions, there is no Download button for the viewers.
- What usually fails
The owner of the video sees the Download button anyway, whatever the setting of the downloads is.
- What to watch out for
A direct link of the API is short-lived: the download field gives links that are valid for 24 hours.
- 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
- Pro plan
$10 a month when you pay yearly ($120 a year), or $20 a month
What the recording does not give you
Two things are worth knowing before you start. First, the service takes a file and not the address of a page: the video from Vimeo has to reach the disk first, and the steps above say how. Second, a transcript is only as good as the sound, and a headset microphone and the microphone of a room give two very different texts out of the same engine.
Tips
DOCX is the format for a review or a hand-off, and it comes with Pro.
Ask for the file of the audio track and not of the video, when you can.
Over 30 minutes on the free plan a file has to be cut before the upload; Pro has no minute limit.
Give the file the name of the meeting, so it is findable a month later.
Questions about Vimeo files
The Vimeo file came empty. What now?
A muted recording, or a file taken before the platform had finished writing it, comes empty. Take it down again after a pause and check that the sound is in the file.
Is a link to Vimeo enough to get a transcript?
A link is not enough. The file has to be on your device, and only then the engine can read it. The steps above say how the file leaves Vimeo.
Why is there no Vimeo file in my folder?
Because the recording is kept by the platform and not by your device. A cloud recording stays in the web portal of Vimeo until somebody takes it down.
What about the transcript Vimeo already made?
A transcript of the platform is a help and not a source. Send the recording itself: the engine hears the whole file, marks the speakers and keeps the times.
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Transcribe any audio fileThe plain version of the service: a file in, a text with the times out.
Sources
- HVimeo help: how to change the downloading permissions of a video (read 2026-10-24)help.vimeo.com · checked
- HVimeo help: about the video file download links of the API (read 2026-10-24)help.vimeo.com · checked
Reading: 4 minutesUpdated Transcribsi editorial team
Drop a recording — the text arrives in a minute
Speakers by name, a time on every line, export to TXT, SRT, VTT, CSV and Markdown.