Skip to content

Podcast Transcription

Free to start. No card needed.

Turn a recorded episode into a plain text transcript for show notes and quotes — fits Lite's 1-hour limit, no speaker labels included.

Transcribe in StudioTry it free
Loading…
4.8

4.8 out of 5 from 100+ verified reviews

Read all reviews
“It's fast and dead simple to use: paste your text, pick a voice, done. No fuss, no learning curve.”
rafael983Verified purchase · AppSumo
“As a professor who records frequent online lectures, I’ve found Vocallab AI to be an incredible tool for my workflow. The voice quality is remarkably lifelike…”
yvonne48Verified purchase · AppSumo

Step-by-step guide

How to Use Podcast Transcription

Start for free — no credit card, no software to install.

  1. Upload the finished episode audio

    Bring in the exported episode file once editing is done — WAV or MP3 both work.

  2. Wait for the transcript to process

    A typical hour-long episode runs as a background job; check back rather than keeping the page open.

  3. Pull the text into your show notes

    Copy sections of the transcript for quotes, summaries or a full episode transcript page.

Podcast Transcription

Features & Capabilities

Everything you need to create professional voiceovers — in one tool.

  • Fits a typical episode length

    Lite's 1-hour ceiling matches most single episodes; Pro's 3 hours covers long-form shows.

  • Plain text, not a subtitle file

    You get a transcript and duration — no caption track to sync to an audio player.

  • No speaker separation

    A co-hosted or interview-style episode comes back as one block of text, not split by speaker.

  • Runs weekly without manual re-setup

    Upload each new episode's audio the same way, week after week, with no recurring configuration.

Use cases

What Can You Create with Podcast Transcription?

From TikTok to podcasts — here's where creators use this tool most.

  • Publishing a text version of each episode

    Give listeners and search engines a readable transcript alongside the audio player.

  • Finding a quote from a past episode

    Search a transcript instead of scrubbing through an hour of audio to find a specific line.

  • Writing episode descriptions faster

    Draft show notes from the transcript's content rather than re-listening and typing from scratch.

  • Making a back catalog searchable

    Run older episodes through transcription so their content becomes findable, not just their titles.

About this tool

Everything you need to know about Podcast Transcription

A podcast episode is usually somewhere around an hour, which lines up almost exactly with the Lite plan's 1-hour-per-file ceiling — upload the episode's audio and get back a plain text transcript you can mine for show notes, pull quotes and searchable text on your episode page. There are no speaker labels, so a two-host conversation returns as one continuous transcript rather than separated by who's talking; skim it and attribute lines yourself if that matters for your notes. Language auto-detects, and for shows that run longer than an hour, Pro's 3-hour ceiling covers almost any single episode. Processing a long episode runs as a background job, so submit it after recording and come back once it's done.

People also search for

  • podcast transcription
  • transcribe podcast episode
  • podcast to text
  • podcast show notes
  • podcast transcript generator
  • podcast episode transcript

FAQ

Podcast Transcription — FAQ

Something not covered here? Contact us · support@vocallab.ai

Will the transcript separate my co-host's lines from mine?

No — there are no speaker labels, so a two-person episode returns as one continuous transcript rather than split by speaker.

How long can a single episode be?

1 hour per file on Lite, 3 hours on Pro and 6 hours on Max — enough for almost any single episode.

Can I get an SRT file for a video version of the episode?

No, speech to text here only returns plain text and a duration, with no timing data to build captions from.

Does it work for every episode automatically, or do I set it up each time?

Each episode is a separate upload — there's no recurring feed integration, so you upload the new episode's audio each week.

More in this collection

Speech to TextUpload audio and get back a plain text transcript with the duration — no captions or SRT. Auto language detection; free up to 20 minutes per file.

Transcribe it in Studio.

Upload audio or video and get an editable transcript. Free to start.

Open Studio freeSee pricing