Transcribe a podcast to text

Turn any podcast episode into text by pasting the show's RSS feed URL (or a direct audio link) — the episode audio is streamed to your browser and transcribed on-device with a Whisper AI model, so you get plain text, timestamps, and subtitles (SRT/VTT) without uploading anything.

How it works

You give the tool a URL, it gets the audio, and Whisper turns speech into text right in your browser:

1. Paste a podcast RSS feed URL and choose an episode, or paste a direct audio URL (.mp3, .m4a, .aac, .wav, …) to skip straight to transcription.
2. The episode audio is streamed through a same-origin proxy (needed only to get past the CORS rules on podcast CDNs) and decoded to 16 kHz mono.
3. The audio is split into ~2-minute parts and transcribed part-by-part, so the transcript streams into view instead of making you wait for the whole episode.
4. Copy or download the result as plain text, timestamped lines, SRT, or WebVTT.

The transcription model runs entirely on your device. Nothing is stored on our servers.

Steps

1. Find the podcast's RSS feed URL (most shows and directories link it) or a direct link to the episode's audio file.
2. Paste it into the tool and press Load.
3. Pick the episode you want (skipped automatically for a direct audio URL).
4. Choose a model and, for multilingual models, the spoken language.
5. Press Transcribe and watch the text stream in.
6. Switch to the SRT or VTT tab if you need subtitles, then copy or download.

RSS feed vs. direct audio URL

Spotify and Apple Podcasts page links don't work: Spotify doesn't expose a downloadable audio file, and Apple page links aren't RSS feeds. Use the RSS feed URL or a direct audio URL instead.

Which model should I choose?

The model downloads once on first use and is cached for later runs.

Example

Paste a show's RSS feed such as https://feeds.example.com/my-show.xml, choose the latest episode, keep the Balanced model with language set to Auto-detect, and press Transcribe. A one-hour episode streams in as roughly thirty ~2-minute parts; when it finishes you switch to the SRT tab and download subtitles ready to drop into a video editor.

Privacy

The only server touch is a thin proxy that streams the episode file to your browser, which is required because podcast CDNs block cross-origin browser downloads. The audio is never persisted, and the transcription happens entirely on your device — a recent Chrome or Edge (WebGPU) is fastest, and a desktop browser is recommended for very long episodes.