Vimeo video to show notes in English
Vimeo video to show notes 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.
The Vimeo video becomes the show notes: the engine reads the English speech and the sections Episode summary, Chapters, Quotes are written from the transcript. The free plan gives 3 files a day of up to 30 minutes.
How to get the file and turn it into show notes
- 1
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
Send the recording to the bot
The recording of the Vimeo video is attached to the widget of the page with the language of the speech set to English, and the show notes comes back as a file of text.
- 3
Run the instruction of the show notes
The transcript of the Vimeo video goes to the instruction that is written for the show notes, and the sections of the answer are Episode summary, Chapters, Quotes.
- 4
Tell the engine what it hears
The recording of the Vimeo video is in English, and that is one of the 99+ languages the engine reads; the setting of the widget says English and the show notes follows.
- 5
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
- 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 the platform says
The owner of the video sees the Download button anyway, whatever the setting of the downloads is.
- What the platform says
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
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 English, and the show notes is written from the text, not from a guess.
Tips
The sections of the show notes are the same for every recording.
The language of the widget is the language of the Vimeo video.
The file of the Vimeo video stays on your own disk.
The owner of the video sees the Download button anyway, whatever the setting of the downloads is.
Questions about Vimeo video and show notes
Which problems can come with 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 engine does not change the file of the Vimeo video; it reads it as it is and writes the show notes.
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 English speech of the Vimeo video and writes the show notes from that text.
How is the show notes built from the Vimeo video?
The engine reads the English speech and the instruction writes the show notes in the sections Episode summary, Chapters, Quotes; every line comes from the transcript of the Vimeo video.
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 show notes with the time of every line.
Related pages
The same task on another recording, with the same steps and the same sections.
Podcast episode to show notesThe 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
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.