Transcribe audio in Japanese

Kanji, hiragana and katakana in the output. No romaji.

Subtitles ready for video

Download .srt, the format YouTube, Premiere, CapCut and DaVinci expect.

Clean text to read

Download .txt or .vtt when the destination is a script, a post or a web player.

91 languages

With automatic detection. US, UK and Australian English are separate options.

10 file formats

MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, OGG, FLAC, MP4, MOV, WEBM and MKV, up to 5 GB each.

Subtitle editor built in

Fix a word, change the font and export the video with the captions burned in.

The file stays yours

The transcript sits in your account and nobody else sees it. Delete it whenever.

Transcribe audio in Japanese

Japanese is written without spaces between words and mixes three writing systems, so the transcription has to decide, segment by segment, what goes in kanji, what goes in hiragana and what goes in katakana. The output comes back in Japanese script, which is what actually works for captioning and publishing — romanising it would only get in the way.

  • Japanese scriptKanji, hiragana and katakana.
  • Subtitle breaksBlocks that fit the screen.
  • Standard output.srt, .vtt and .txt.
See every transcription option

Three steps and the text is yours

Nothing to install, no plugin, no converting the file first.

  1. 1

    Upload the file

    Audio or video, up to 5 GB. If it's video we only read the audio track — no need to extract anything first.

  2. 2

    Pick the language

    Or leave it on Detect. Pinning the language pays off when the audio is short, noisy or switches between two languages.

  3. 3

    Download the text

    It runs in the background and you can close the tab. When it's done it shows up in your list, ready to download.

Questions that keep coming up

Shortcuts by format and language

Upload something and see

No card, no 7-day trial counting down. If you don't like it, you close the tab and that's it.

Create a free account

15 minutes a month on the free plan. No card.

Pages that pair well with what you just read.