ScribeGrab: from spoken to written
The two-hour meeting you were supposed to summarize, the interview for your thesis, the video that needs subtitles: ScribeGrab listens once and writes it all down. AI speech recognition (running on our own GPU) turns audio and video into clean text or ready-to-use subtitle files.
Open ScribeGrab (free) → no sign-up · no watermark · uploads deleted automatically
What it does
- Audio → text: meetings, lectures, interviews, voice memos; punctuated, readable transcripts rather than a word soup. Whether you need to transcribe a voice recording, get an audio text transcription, or just audio transcribe to text for a memo, it's the same speech-recognition pass, and it works to transcribe audio recording to text on files up to 90 minutes.
- Video → subtitles: timed SRT or VTT files you can load into any editor or player, or burn into the video.
- Many languages: the model recognizes dozens of languages and handles accents far better than old-school dictation software.
Beyond the transcript
The transcript is the raw material; the newer tools on the site do something with it:
- YouTube summarizer — paste a link, get the gist plus the full transcript. It works even when the video has no subtitles, because the audio is then transcribed on our own hardware — the case where browser-extension summarizers give up.
- Translate subtitles — the same transcript in other languages, as ready-to-use SRT.
- Add subtitles to any video — for platforms that ignore subtitle files.
- Meeting minutes from audio — structured minutes (decisions, action items, open questions) written from the transcript; this is the one paid extra, because it costs real compute per run.
- Bleep out swear words — finds every swear word in the transcript and mutes or beeps it on the exact timestamp, so the timing of the original stays intact.
- AI Humanizer — call it humanizer ai, ai humanizer, or just a humanizer for a stiff first draft: it rewrites AI-sounding text so it reads like a person wrote it, free to try with no sign-up. The ai humanizers tool is that same rewrite box above. The ai humanizer free rewrite is that identical tool, just a different way people search for it.
Against the known names: Otter, Descript and Kapwing are polished but want an account and meter your minutes. Here the core — transcribe, subtitle, summarise — is free without sign-up; the trade-off is a queue at busy moments and a 90-minute cap per free file.
What happens to your file
1 Drop audio or video
Common formats accepted; long recordings are fine.
2 GPU listens
Speech recognition runs at many times real-time speed on our hardware.
3 Text or subtitles
Copy the transcript, or download TXT / SRT / VTT. Your upload is wiped automatically.
Honest expectations
Clear speech transcribes impressively well; heavy background noise, crosstalk and thick dialects lower accuracy, so for anything critical, skim the result against the audio before publishing. There's no separate background noise removal step here — accuracy comes from clear input, not cleanup after the fact; for a noisy recording, run it through CleanGrab first. Names and jargon are the usual weak spots of every speech model.
Goes well with
Need just the vocal track out of a song first? StemGrab isolates it. Subtitling a clip you also want cut out of its background? Pair with VideoBGNinja.
By Sam Ridder — I build and run ShinobiTools on my own hardware, on my own. Who I am.