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Mp4 Transcription: Turn Video Into Text in Seconds
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Interview Recordings Into Quotable Text
Turn hour-long interviews and podcast episodes into searchable, quotable text. Pull the exact quote you need without scrubbing through the timeline.
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Export SRT subtitle files for your marketing videos, training content, or social posts. Make every video accessible and searchable without typing captions by hand.
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What You Get With Video Transcription
Presenter
In this video, we'll walk through the three questions to ask before starting a new project.
Cameron
First, define the outcome. What should be different when the project is finished, and how will we know?
Presenter
Next, let's look at a real example and turn that outcome into a few practical steps.
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Auto-Extract Audio From Video
Drop in an MP4, MOV, or AVI file and Cockatoo extracts the audio automatically. Export the finished transcript as SRT subtitles, plain text, or DOCX.
From MP4 to Finished Transcript in Three Steps
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Speaker Recognition, Punctuation, and Capitalisation Applied Automatically
Cockatoo identifies speakers, adds punctuation, and capitalizes proper nouns as it transcribes. You get a readable document, not a wall of lowercase text that needs an hour of cleanup.
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Export Captions and Subtitles Directly from Your Video
Once your MP4 is transcribed, export the transcript as subtitles or captions. No separate captioning tool needed.
Upload From YouTube, Dropbox, Drive
Paste a YouTube link, import from Dropbox or Google Drive, or upload a file from your computer. Cockatoo auto-detects the spoken language or lets you set it manually.
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Translate Spoken Audio, Not Only Written Documents
Transcribe an MP4 in one language, then translate the transcript into another.
Translate Documents Without Rebuilding Formatting
Upload a formatted DOCX or PPTX, translate it, and download the result with tables, headings, and layout intact. No copy-paste into Google Translate, no manual reformatting.
Get Words Out of Audio, Then Into Another Language
Transcribe a training video in English, translate the transcript to Spanish, and export subtitles for both. The same platform handles audio-to-text and document translation.
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| Language | Word error rate |
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| English | 3.9% |
| Spanish | 1.0% |
| French | 7.8% |
| German | 2.4% |
Lower is better. Selected per-language results from the public benchmark. Updated October 27, 2026.
Explore the full accuracy report| Paid-plan usage | How it works |
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| Default modes | No monthly hour cap |
| Highest-accuracy modes | Weekly usage budget shown in Settings |
| When the budget is reached | Unlimited default modes remain available |
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Translates PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX and TXT files between languages while keeping the document usable; scanned PDFs and photos are supported via OCR (formatting less precise). Translated PDFs come back as PDF, with an in-app preview before download.
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Unlimited means no monthly hour cap on default transcription modes. Highest-accuracy modes have a weekly limit shown in Settings, but default modes have no cap.
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