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Transcribe a video to text
Turn the speech in a recording into text on the Text track, on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded and it costs nothing.
Where to find it
Editor → Edit tab with nothing selected → Text track → Transcribe speech
How to do it
Click Canvas above the preview so nothing is selected, then find the Text track card on the Edit tab.
Choose the Spoken language. The Mac can’t detect it from the sound.
Leave Listen to on Original speech, or pick Preview mix or Selected audio clip.
Press Transcribe speech. The lines appear on the Text row of the timeline.
If Review uncertain passages appears, press it to jump to words the recognizer wasn’t sure of, and correct them in the Text line card.
Good to know
- Needs macOS 26 or later. Transcribing again replaces the Text track; Undo restores it.
- Text track lines are an editing guide. To show words on the video, add captions on the CC row.
- Who can use it
- Free; needs macOS 26 on Mac
- Where it works
- Mac · Web
This guide answers
- How do I get a transcript of my video?
- Does transcription upload my video?
- How do I transcribe in another language?
- How do I fix words the transcript got wrong?
- Why is Transcribe missing on my Mac?