How to get a Vimeo transcript, free and in one click

Transcribe Video to Text · 3 min read

Need the text of a Vimeo video, a lecture, a webinar, a client review? Here's how to get a clean, full transcript with timestamps in one click, without downloading anything or pasting the link into a random site.

Vimeo supports captions on a lot of videos, but they're built to be watched, not copied. There's no simple "export the transcript" button, and the text is often locked to the player. A transcript tool reads the video for you and gives back the complete text in a usable format.

The fastest way: a one-click Chrome extension

Transcribe Video to Text is a free Chrome extension that builds the transcript of the Vimeo you're watching, right on the page. No file to upload, no account.

1. Add the extension to Chrome and open any Vimeo video.
2. Click the extension icon. It reads the video and builds the transcript in seconds.
3. The text appears in a side panel, laid out speaker by speaker with timestamps.
4. Copy the part you need, or export the whole thing to Word, TXT or SRT.

On Vimeo, the transcript is pulled from the video's own captions inside your browser, so nothing is uploaded anywhere, and it's free and unlimited.

What you can do with the transcript

• Turn a webinar into notes you can search and skim later.
• Quote it accurately without scrubbing back and retyping.
• Export to Word (.docx) or plain TXT, or SRT if you need subtitles.
• Summarize it with AI, paste the transcript into ChatGPT for the key points.

Works on more than Vimeo

The same extension transcribes video across most of the web, YouTube, TikTok, Loom, Coursera and most sites where a video plays in your browser. See our guide on getting a YouTube transcript for the same steps on YouTube.