**Blog — Transcription and Subtitle Guides | SozAI** Source: https://sozai.app/blog/ # Blog Guides and explainers on turning speech into text — subtitles, transcripts, and the free tools that do the work. All - [Comparisons](https://sozai.app/category/comparisons/) - [Dictation](https://sozai.app/category/dictation/) - [Glossary](https://sozai.app/category/glossary/) - [Journal](https://sozai.app/category/journal/) - [Meeting Notes](https://sozai.app/category/meeting-notes/) - [Note-Taking](https://sozai.app/category/note-taking/) - [Productivity](https://sozai.app/category/productivity/) - [Subtitles & Captions](https://sozai.app/category/subtitles/) - [Text to Speech](https://sozai.app/category/text-to-speech/) - [Transcription](https://sozai.app/category/transcription/) - [Translation](https://sozai.app/category/translation/) - [Tutorials](https://sozai.app/category/tutorials/) - [Voice Recording](https://sozai.app/category/voice-recording/) [Transcription](https://sozai.app/category/transcription/) August 2, 2026 9 min read ## [No Transcript Button on a YouTube Video: What to Do](https://sozai.app/youtube-transcript-button-missing/) The transcript button goes missing for two very different reasons, and only one of them can be fixed by looking harder. Here is how to tell them apart and get the text. [Subtitles & Captions](https://sozai.app/category/subtitles/) August 2, 2026 9 min read ## [Turning YouTube Captions Into an SRT File You Can Actually Use](https://sozai.app/youtube-captions-to-srt-file/) How to get a usable SRT out of a YouTube video, why Studio hands you SubViewer instead, and why someone else's captions are a rights question first. [Productivity](https://sozai.app/category/productivity/) August 2, 2026 9 min read ## [Voice Messages You Cannot Play Out Loud](https://sozai.app/voice-notes-when-you-cannot-listen/) Voice notes stack up when the room is wrong, not because you dislike them. Here is how to clear the queue from the computer you are already sitting at. [Productivity](https://sozai.app/category/productivity/) August 2, 2026 9 min read ## [When Work Instructions Arrive as Voice Notes](https://sozai.app/voice-notes-at-work/) Clients who send briefs and addresses as voice messages leave you with a record you cannot search, quote or forward, which is exactly when you need one. [Translation](https://sozai.app/category/translation/) August 2, 2026 9 min read ## [Understanding a Voice Message in a Language You Do Not Speak](https://sozai.app/voice-message-in-another-language/) A voice note in a language you only half follow takes two steps to understand, and only one of them is likely to go wrong. Here is how to do both yourself. [Productivity](https://sozai.app/category/productivity/) August 2, 2026 9 min read ## [How to Get Through a Three-Hour Video Without Watching It](https://sozai.app/skim-a-long-youtube-video/) A three-hour video does not have to cost you three hours — or ninety minutes at double speed — if you treat it as something to read instead of watch. [Meeting Notes](https://sozai.app/category/meeting-notes/) August 2, 2026 8 min read ## [Getting a Transcript That Says Who Said What](https://sozai.app/who-said-what-transcript/) Speaker separation is a different task from recognising words, and it succeeds or fails almost entirely based on how the recording was made. [Glossary](https://sozai.app/category/glossary/) August 2, 2026 9 min read ## [Which Subtitle Format Do You Actually Need?](https://sozai.app/which-subtitle-format-do-i-need/) A destination-first guide to SRT, VTT, SBV and ASS, plus the one rule that decides whether converting your subtitle file costs you anything. [Meeting Notes](https://sozai.app/category/meeting-notes/) August 2, 2026 9 min read ## [You Ran a Webinar. Turning It Into Something People Will Read](https://sozai.app/webinar-into-a-written-post/) A talk and an article are different shapes, and most webinar write-ups fail because they keep the talk's structure. Here is what to throw away and what to keep. [Transcription](https://sozai.app/category/transcription/) August 2, 2026 9 min read ## [Following a Lecture in a Language You Are Still Learning](https://sozai.app/understand-a-lecture-in-another-language/) For students who catch two thirds of a lecture live, the fix isn't more vocabulary but a way to slow the lecture down after it happens. [Meeting Notes](https://sozai.app/category/meeting-notes/) August 2, 2026 9 min read ## [You Recorded the Meeting. Now Get a Transcript Out of It](https://sozai.app/transcript-from-a-teams-or-meet-recording/) Where Teams, Google Meet and Zoom actually put a meeting recording, what their own transcripts cover, and why downloading the file is the route that always works. [Journal](https://sozai.app/category/journal/) August 2, 2026 8 min read ## [Can You Transcribe Audio Without Uploading It Anywhere?](https://sozai.app/transcribe-audio-without-uploading-it/) A straight answer on whether transcription can happen without your audio leaving the device, what encryption in transit actually covers, and the questions that separate real answers from marketing. ## Free Tools [All tools →](https://sozai.app/tools/) - [Voice Memo to Text](https://sozai.app/tools/transcribe-voice-memo/) - [Online Timer & Stopwatch](https://sozai.app/tools/timer/) - [SRT to VTT Converter](https://sozai.app/tools/srt-to-vtt/) - [SBV to SRT Converter](https://sozai.app/tools/sbv-to-srt/) - [ASS to SRT Converter](https://sozai.app/tools/ass-to-srt/) - [Subtitle Converter](https://sozai.app/tools/subtitle-converter/) - [Transcribe WhatsApp Voice Messages to Text](https://sozai.app/tools/transcribe-whatsapp-audio/) - [Legal Audio Transcription](https://sozai.app/tools/transcribe-legal/) Turn your next recording into text Record, upload a file or paste a link. You get the transcript, speakers and a summary back. [Get the App — Free](https://sozai.app/download/) Free on iOS and Android. No account required for YouTube transcripts. --- This is the markdown twin of https://sozai.app/blog/ — the same content, without the markup. Published by SozAI (https://sozai.app). Reuse and quotation are allowed with attribution and a link back. Machine-readable index: https://sozai.app/llms.txt · data API: https://sozai.app/api/