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TED is a nonprofit media organisation with 4B+ video views publishing talks on technology, science, culture and global issues.
Scale: 4B+ video views, 3K+ published talks
TED Talks are precisely formatted to 5–18 minutes; TEDx talks 5–20 minutes; TED-Ed lessons 3–5 minutes.
How to Transcribe TED Content
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- Go to the Rewind.ai Transcriber
- Upload your file (MP3, MP4, WAV, M4A and more supported)
- Our AI transcribes it automatically in the detected language
- Download your transcript as text or SRT subtitles
Features
- ✓Runs on faster-whisper (MIT licensed)
- ✓Detects the spoken language automatically across 99 languages
- ✓Timestamps and SRT subtitle export
- ✓Works with every TED content format
- ✓No sign-up to start
- ✓Your files are deleted after processing
Why Transcribe TED Content?
- Creating study notes and references from TED Talk content for education and research
- Generating multilingual subtitles from TED Talks not yet officially translated
- Transcribing TEDx talks for local event archives and written publication
Platform Details
| Platform | TED |
| Category | education |
| Scale | 4B+ video views, 3K+ published talks |
| Common formats | MP4, WebM, SRT |
| Languages | 99 |
| AI Model | faster-whisper |
| Price | Free |
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