Transcribe Japanese video to text

Turn Japanese (日本語) videos and audio into editable text and subtitles in the selected language. Results vary with audio quality, accent, overlapping speech and background noise; review names, punctuation and technical terms.

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How to transcribe a Japanese video

Paste the link and set the language to Japanese (or leave it on auto-detect). LongScribe pulls captions when they exist, otherwise it transcribes the audio into 日本語 text with clickable timestamps you can jump from.

Japanese script and accuracy

Output uses Japanese writing and can include kanji, hiragana and katakana. Review names, homophones and context-specific readings.

What people transcribe in Japanese

Popular for anime and drama clips, VTuber and YouTube streams, and interviews — export .srt to add Japanese captions or a translation base.

Subtitles and downloads

Download a timed .srt to caption the video in Japanese, plus plain text (TXT), a Word document (DOCX) and JSON — ready to edit, search by timestamp or share with a public link.