Spanish transcription Your Spanish audio as text, with speakers and timestamps.
To transcribe Spanish audio, pick the recording here, create your account and upload the file or paste a YouTube link. We detect the language on our own and transcribe it in Spanish, with who spoke and when. Download TXT, PDF or SRT. If you need it in English, Studio translates the whole transcript.
Free on the 3-day trial- Word-by-word Spanish transcript with timestamps
- Speakers separated, even in interviews and podcasts
- Spanish YouTube videos by link, no download needed
- Spanish TXT, PDF and SRT downloads
- Cancel anytime in the app, no fee
You create the account and upload this file in the next step. The trial lasts 3 days or 1 hour of media.
How to transcribe Spanish audio to text
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Pick the audio or video
An interview, sermon, class, podcast or meeting in Spanish. A file from your computer or a YouTube link.
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Create your account and upload
No need to choose a language: we detect Spanish on our own and the transcript is ready in minutes.
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Review, translate and download
Fix names and terms right in the transcript and download TXT, PDF or SRT. On Studio, add an English version too.
Spanish transcription or translation to English?
Transcription turns speech into text in the same language: Spanish audio becomes Spanish text. That's what you need to quote an interview in the speaker's own words, caption a video for a Spanish-speaking audience or keep an accurate record of a meeting.
Translation is the next step: the Spanish text becomes English. In FilmScribe, both come from the same recording. Spanish transcription is on every plan; translating the transcript, captions and chapters into 9 languages, English among them, is on Studio and Agency, and every line keeps its timing.
What people transcribe in Spanish
A lot of it comes from work with Spanish-speaking people: interviews with sources and research participants, calls with clients and teams in Latin America or Spain, bilingual church services, classes and training sessions, and Spanish-language podcasts and YouTube channels.
For a Spanish video on YouTube, paste the link instead of downloading the file, live streams included. The transcript keeps the timestamps, so you can jump back to the exact moment in the video.
- An interview with a Spanish-speaking source, quoted word for word
- Research interviews that need an exact Spanish record
- A sermon or service to caption in Spanish and in English
- A client call with a team in Mexico, Colombia or Spain
- A Spanish podcast episode to search and pull quotes from
Accents from Mexico to Madrid, and a bit of English in between
Spanish from Mexico City doesn't sound like Spanish from Buenos Aires, Bogotá, the Caribbean or Madrid, and our transcription works with the common accents of the language. Audio quality matters more than accent: a microphone close to the speaker and little background noise make the biggest difference. Overlapping speech is the hardest part to separate in any language.
In the US, conversations often mix in English. When someone drops a short English phrase into a Spanish sentence, it usually shows up in English, the way it was said. Names, places and slang are the usual misses: fix them in the text once and the fix carries over to the TXT, the PDF and the captions. On Studio and Agency, you can also rename speakers and ask us to identify each one by name.
What each file contains
TXT and PDF carry the Spanish text with speaker names and the start time of each line, both optional when you download. SRT carries Spanish captions, with TV, Netflix and YouTube presets and the frame rate of your project, ready for YouTube or your editor.
Every line keeps the timing of each word. Click a sentence and the audio jumps to that point, which makes reviewing much faster than replaying the whole recording. Chapter titles and summaries come out in your app language, while quoted lines stay in Spanish.
| File | What's in it |
|---|---|
| TXT | Spanish text, with optional names and times |
| The same text, ready to print or attach | |
| SRT | Spanish captions with timing for every block |
More than Spanish transcription. The same recording, ready to use.
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Frequently asked questions
How do I transcribe Spanish audio to text?
Pick the recording on this page, create a free account and upload the file or paste a YouTube link. We detect Spanish on our own and return the text with speakers and a timestamp on every line. Download TXT, PDF or SRT.
Can I get the Spanish transcript translated to English?
Yes, on Studio and Agency. We translate the transcript, captions and chapters into English or another of the 9 languages, keeping the timing of every line. Spanish transcription itself is on every plan.
Does it handle Mexican, Caribbean and Spain Spanish?
It works with the common accents of Spanish, from Latin America and Spain. What affects the result most is audio quality: a close microphone and little noise count for more than the accent.
Can I transcribe a Spanish YouTube video?
Yes. Paste the video link, live streams included, and we transcribe it without you downloading anything. The transcript keeps the timestamps so you can go straight back to the right moment.
Is Spanish transcription free?
On the trial, yes. It lasts 3 days or 1 hour of media, whichever ends first, and it starts with a card on file. Cancel in the app before it ends and you pay nothing. After that, transcription is included in every plan, with no extra fee per language.
Can I caption my video in Spanish with this transcript?
Yes. Download the Spanish SRT to upload to YouTube or open in your editor. For video, captions can also be burned into vertical clips, in Spanish or, on Studio, translated.
Your Spanish audio, as text. And in English, if you need it.
Upload the recording or paste a YouTube link. We transcribe it in Spanish with speakers and timestamps, and on Studio we translate it to English.
See the result on your own recording before adding a card.