A viewer can take a video only from the page of it on vimeo.com: the embedded player never gives the file.
Vimeo video to flashcards for revision in Russian
Vimeo video to flashcards for revision in Russian: 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.
What the Vimeo stores is what the engine needs. The Russian speech becomes the revision deck in the sections Cards, Terms to define, Self-check questions; one file may be up to 30 minutes, and 3 files a day are free.
How to get the file and turn it into flashcards for revision
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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
- 2
Upload the file
The recording of the Vimeo video is attached to the widget of the page with the language of the speech set to Russian, and the revision deck comes back as a file of text.
- 3
Turn the text into the revision deck
The transcript of the Vimeo video goes to the instruction that is written for the revision deck, and the sections of the answer are Cards, Terms to define, Self-check questions.
- 4
Mark the language of the speech
The recording of the Vimeo video is in Russian, and that is one of the 99+ languages the engine reads; the setting of the widget says Russian and the revision deck follows.
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Check the file before the upload
The file is the video of the player in the quality that the owner of the video allowed
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 says about it
The file is the video of the player in the quality that the owner of the video allowed.
When the owner switched the Downloads switch off under Share and in the viewer permissions, there is no Download button for the viewers.
The owner of the video sees the Download button anyway, whatever the setting of the downloads is.
A direct link of the API is short-lived: the download field gives links that are valid for 24 hours.
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
What the recording does not give you
A viewer can take a video only from the page of it on vimeo.com: the embedded player never gives the file. The Vimeo video is read by the engine in Russian, and the revision deck is written from the text, not from a guess.
Tips
A name that was never said in the Vimeo video stays out of the revision deck.
The engine does not translate the Vimeo video from Russian.
The file of the Vimeo video stays on your own disk.
A direct link of the API is short-lived: the download field gives links that are valid for 24 hours.
Questions about Vimeo video and flashcards for revision
What does the Vimeo keep for the Vimeo video?
A viewer can take a video only from the page of it on vimeo.com: the embedded player never gives the file. The file of the Vimeo video is the input of the engine, and the revision deck is written from it.
What does the Vimeo say about the Vimeo video?
The owner of the video sees the Download button anyway, whatever the setting of the downloads is. The engine reads the Russian speech of the Vimeo video and writes the revision deck from that text.
Who reads the revision deck after the Vimeo video is sent?
the student who missed the lecture. The transcript of the Vimeo video is read first, and the revision deck comes out of it in the sections Cards, Terms to define, Self-check questions.
Is there a limit to the length of the Vimeo video?
One file of the Vimeo video may be up to 30 minutes on the free plan; the free plan gives 3 files a day.
Is a link enough for the Vimeo video?
Bring the file of the Vimeo video to your own disk and upload it here; the engine returns the revision deck with the time of every line.
Related pages
- The same task on vimeo video to text podcast show notes enThe same task on another recording, with the same steps and the same sections.
- Lecture to flashcards for revisionThe 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.
- Vimeo video to textWhere Vimeo keeps the file, what it holds and what the engine does with it.
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
- TTranscription service page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
- TPricing page (read 2026-10-25)transcrib.si · checked
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.