Amara
amara.org
Caption and translate a video with other people, subtitle by subtitle
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amara.org
Caption and translate a video with other people, subtitle by subtitle
kapwing.com
Cuts video, auto-subtitles it and reframes it for each platform
otranscribe.com
Play the audio and type the transcript in the same window
veed.io
Transcribes a video into subtitles and lets you fix every word by hand
huggingface.co
Runs OpenAI's Whisper speech recognition inside your own browser
Where these come from
A real job usually crosses two or three categories, which is why starting from the task is often faster than starting from the shelf.
Questions
Free transcription is now accurate enough for notes and captions in clear audio. Accented speech, crosstalk and technical vocabulary are where it still fails, so budget time to correct rather than assuming a clean pass.
Yes — 2 of the 5 sites listed here work with no account at all. They are marked "No sign-up" and you can spot them by the green rule down the left edge of the card.
2 of these do the work inside your browser and never upload the file — those are the ones to use for anything with personal data in it. The rest send your input to their servers, which is fine for public material.