Read what was actually said
Free Facebook video transcript generator
Paste a public Facebook Reel or video and get a word-for-word transcript of its spoken audio. No account required.
How it works
Copy the link
Open the Reel or video on Facebook and copy the facebook.com address from the address bar: a link with /reel/, /videos/ or /watch?v= in it. Links from the Share button (facebook.com/share/...) and shortened fb.watch links cannot be read yet: open them first and copy the address.
Paste it here
Public Reels and public videos up to two minutes long, from a Page or a profile. A private video cannot be read by us or by anybody who is not already allowed to see it.
Read and copy
The language is detected automatically from the audio, and the transcript comes back word for word, usually inside thirty seconds.
What people use it for
Study a hook
Read the first two lines of a Facebook Reel that broke out and see exactly how it opened, before you write your own.
Reuse your own words
Turn a video you already posted into a caption, a post or an email without retyping it from memory.
Read it in Latin script
With a free account, a Hindi, Gujarati or Punjabi transcript also comes back in Latin script, for anyone who reads it more easily that way.
Keep a record of a talk or a live
Save what was said in a public video before it scrolls away, as text you can search later.
Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi and English
The language is detected from the audio, so there is nothing to set. A video that moves between Hindi and English mid-sentence comes back as one readable transcript, in the script it was spoken in.
With a free account, a Hindi, Gujarati or Punjabi transcript also comes back in Latin script, spelled the way TheXMedia’s writers spell client scripts, so it can go straight into a caption.
Getting the words without a tool
- Facebook shows auto-generated captions on many videos. Tap CC on the video, or turn captions on in your settings, then play it.
- They appear a line at a time while the video plays. There is no button to copy them as one block of text, so you pause and type.
- They are not on every video, and they are weaker on Hindi, Gujarati and Punjabi and on speech that switches language mid-sentence.
This tool reads the same audio and hands back the whole script at once, ready to copy.
Questions
Is this Facebook video transcript generator really free?
Yes, for 3 reels or videos a day with no account. Ones somebody has already run through it stay free to read after that, because the transcript is already stored and re-reading it costs us nothing.
Do I need to sign up?
No. Paste a link and read the transcript. An account is free and adds the Latin-script reading of the video you just read, a page that keeps it, and the hook and CTA breakdown and translation on the videos you track, but the transcript itself never needs one.
What does word for word mean here?
It is a transcript of the audio, not the caption and not a summary. A Facebook post's text is written separately from the video and often says something different from what the person said on camera, which is why we read the audio.
Can it read a private video?
No. Only public Reels and public videos from a Page or a profile can be read, by us or by anybody who is not already able to see it. A private link will come back as an error rather than a partial result.
What about a video with no talking?
A video that is only music or text on screen has no speech to transcribe, so it comes back empty. The tool reads what is said out loud and does not read text burned into the video.
Is it legal to transcribe someone else's video?
Reading a public post is what any viewer does. A transcript is a record of what was said in it, and it gives you no licence to the video itself, so treat the words as research rather than as something to republish.
Does it work on Hindi, Gujarati and Punjabi videos?
Yes, and that is the part most tools get wrong. The language is detected from the audio rather than from the caption or a dropdown, so a video that switches between Hinglish and English mid-sentence still comes back as one readable transcript.
Do you store the video?
No. The audio is read once to produce the transcript and is not kept. What is stored is the text, so the next person who pastes the same link gets an answer without us fetching it again.
Can I get a transcript of my own video?
Yes, the same way, as long as the Page or profile it is posted from is public. Creators use this on their own back catalogue to see which hooks they have already used before writing the next one.
Does this work on a Page's videos, or only Reels?
Both. Paste a link to a Reel or to a video from a Page's or a profile's Videos tab and either comes back the same way. It does not yet read a Facebook Live recording or a story.
How is this different from Facebook's own captions?
Facebook's auto-captions are per-line, tied to the video player, and weaker on Indian languages and on code-switching. This gives you the whole script as one block of text you can copy, alongside a Latin-script reading if you make an account.
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