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Arabic podcast transcription for show notes, subtitles and clips

Upload the episode after editing and get its full text with the hosts' and guests' names, then write the show notes and an article from it and pull the subtitle file and short clips out of it. For Arabic podcasters who want an episode to live outside listening apps too.

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  • Speakers detected automatically
  • Word-level timestamps
  • Word, SRT, VTT, TXT, JSON and CSV

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A real transcript and its translation

Speaker 1Speaker 2Detected: English
0:00 / 0:36

Transcript

Real output, unedited · voices by Vocla
Two-speaker clips voiced with Vocla library voices, uploaded and transcribed by Vocla with language and speakers on auto. Lines, speakers, word timings and the translation are exactly as returned.

What you get

What you take away from one episode

A show-notes template with chapters, two subtitle cues from a conversation in dialect, and a names list to paste before transcribing. All names are invented.

  • Sample 1

    Show-notes template with chapters

    Modern Standard Arabic

    في هذه الحلقة نتحدث مع سلمى عن تجربتها في تأسيس مشروع من المنزل. 00:00 المقدمة. 03:45 لماذا تركت الوظيفة. 14:20 أول عميل وأول خطأ. 27:10 التسعير. 41:05 نصيحة لمن يبدأ اليوم. النص الكامل للحلقة في موقع البودكاست.

    In this episode we talk to Salma about starting a business from home. 00:00 Intro. 03:45 Why she left her job. 14:20 First client, first mistake. 27:10 Pricing. 41:05 Advice for anyone starting today. Full transcript on the podcast's website. Take each time from the first line of that segment in the transcript.

  • Sample 2

    Two SRT cues from the conversation

    Kuwaiti Arabic

    42 | 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:26,800 | شلون جاك أول عميل؟ 43 | 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:33,500 | والله بالصدفة، وايد ناس كانوا يسألوني عن شغلي، والحين صاروا هم اللي يسوّقون لي.

    Cue 42: "How did your first client come to you?" Cue 43: "By chance, honestly. A lot of people used to ask me about my work, and now they are the ones marketing for me." Each cue is short enough to read on screen and written in the speaker's dialect.

  • Sample 3

    Names list to paste before transcribing

    Modern Standard Arabic

    بودكاست حكاية مشروع، المقدّم جاسم، الضيفة سلمى، مشروع الحلويات المنزلية، التسعير، دراسة الجدوى، التسويق بالمحتوى، العمل الحر، freelance، branding

    The podcast "Hikayat Mashrou", the host Jassim, the guest Salma, the home sweets business, pricing, feasibility study, content marketing, freelancing, freelance, branding. The show's name and the guest's name matter most, because they recur in every episode.

The problem

The episode is an hour long, and search engines cannot listen

You spend days preparing, recording and editing, then the episode goes out with a title and two lines of description.

  1. Every idea, name and story in it stays locked inside the audio file: it does not show up for anyone searching the topic in writing, and a listener cannot get back to the minute where a book they liked was mentioned.

  2. Writing show notes means hearing the episode a third time, after recording and editing, stopping to note timestamps. A two-person team publishing weekly usually postpones that until it stops happening.

  3. Then there is social media. A short clip with no text on screen gets scrolled past in silence, and an audio-only episode has no picture to post in the first place.

Why Vocla

What Vocla gets out of your episode

  • A full text with the right name on each voice

    The host is told apart from the guest automatically, and you type their names once for them to appear across the transcript and in every file you export. Good for publishing the full transcript on the podcast's website.

  • Timestamps ready for chapters

    Because every line carries its time, you pick up the start of each segment straight from the text and write the chapter list without playing the episode and watching the counter.

  • An SRT file for the video version

    If you publish the episode on video, export SRT or VTT in Arabic and upload it with the video, so viewers can read what is being said even with the sound off.

  • Short clips with text on screen

    From the same transcript, AI captions burns the text into a clip in five styles, including word-by-word Karaoke, and reframes it to vertical or square. An audio file with no picture becomes a video with a moving waveform and captions.

  • Translation that opens the episode to non-Arabic speakers

    Lines are translated into English or another language and keep their times, so you can publish a translated transcript or a second subtitle file for the video version and reach someone who does not know Arabic.

How it works

A routine for every new episode

  1. Step 1

    Upload the final cut, after editing

    Transcribe the file that will be published, not the raw recording, so the timestamps match what the audience hears. Audio and video up to 500 MB are accepted.

  2. Step 2

    Add the podcast name, the guest and the episode's terms

    The show's name, the guest's name and company, and the books and places that will come up all go in the names list before you start. Then choose the dialect of the conversation.

  3. Step 3

    Review the text once, for everything

    Correct names, split long lines and add punctuation where it is needed. What you fix here carries into the Word file, the subtitle file and the captioned clips together.

  4. Step 4

    Write the notes and the article from the text

    Copy the transcript into your editor, pick the quotes and segment starts, and write the episode description and an article based on it. The writing is yours: the tool does not generate a summary or a finished article.

  5. Step 5

    Cut the clips and export them

    Cut the best two or three minutes in your editing software, upload each clip to AI captions to burn in the text, then download it and post it yourself on the podcast's accounts.

Cost

What the episode and its clips cost

An episode is charged by its length: 150 credits per started minute, and translation, if you ask for it, an extra 60 credits per minute. Burning captions into video costs 30 credits per minute of the exported clip, which is why captioning a few chosen short clips is cheaper than captioning the whole episode.

These tools are part of the paid plans. The per-file limit is 30 minutes on Starter and 120 minutes on Professional, which suits long conversational episodes. A podcast carrying ads or sponsorship needs commercial usage rights, available from Starter at $4.99 a month.

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The numbers

Quick maths

Worked example: a 40-minute recording is 6,000 credits, or 8,400 with translation.

  • Not available on the Free plan; included in every paid plan.
  • Transcription costs 150 credits per started minute of audio, shown before you start and refunded if the transcript fails.
  • Translating the transcript adds 60 credits per minute.
  • Longest file: 30 minutes on Starter, 120 on Professional and 300 on Business.

Figures use the current plans and default credit rates. The exact cost is always shown in the app before you confirm.

Questions people ask

How do I turn a podcast episode into text?

Upload the final episode file to speech to text in Vocla, choose the dialect of the conversation and add the show's and guest's names to the names list. After a few minutes the transcript appears, split by speaker with timestamps; review it and export it in the format you need.

Does it write the show notes and the article automatically?

No. Vocla gives you the full, accurately timed text, and you write the description, the chapters and the article from it. The difference is that you work from text in front of you, copying quotes and times, instead of listening to the episode again and noting everything by hand.

My episode is audio only. How do I make a video clip from it?

Upload the audio clip to AI captions and it becomes a video with a moving waveform and the speech written on screen in the style and colours you pick. Choose the vertical format for short clips, then download the MP4 and post it yourself.

Can I translate the episode into English?

Yes, the transcript is translated line by line with times kept, and you can export the translation as text, as an SRT file or as a bilingual file. This is a written translation for non-Arabic readers, not an English audio version of the episode.

Does publishing the transcript help the episode show up on Google?

A written transcript lets search engines read what was said in the episode, which they do not do with an audio file, and it also helps people who prefer reading or are hard of hearing. We do not promise a ranking: that depends on your site, your content and your competition.

How long can an episode be?

Up to 30 minutes per file on Starter, 120 minutes on Professional and 300 minutes on Business, with a maximum size of 500 MB. If the episode is longer than your plan's limit, split it in two and transcribe each part on its own.

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