GASTON is the simplest way to transcribe a video or audio recording into text. Upload your own file or paste a link to a page where the recording lives, and Gaston does the rest, no software to install. Transcribe one file a day for free, or an unlimited number as a PRO user.
Log in to your Gaston account. If you don't have one yet, create a free Gaston account , it takes less than a minute and no credit card is required.
Once you're logged in, locate the "Add media" button in the top right corner.
You have two options here: upload an audio or video file directly from your computer, or paste the URL of the page where the recording is hosted, YouTube, Facebook, and hundreds of other sites are all supported.
And that's it. Gaston starts transcribing your file automatically and shows you the transcript within seconds to a few minutes, depending on length. You can play it back with the words highlighted in sync, search inside it, export it as TXT, SRT or CSV, and translate it into dozens of languages.
Working with recordings in more than one language, or with several people talking? Gaston also detects speakers automatically and lets you search across everything you've ever transcribed, see the guides below for both.
Audio (MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC, OGG, OPUS, AMR) and video (MP4, MOV, MKV, WEBM, AVI, WMV, MPEG), up to 5 GB per file.
98 languages. Before uploading you pick the language of the recording, or turn on autodetection. Slovak and Amharic recordings are transcribed by GASTON's own specialized models.
Yes, one file a day with no limit on recording length. PRO removes the daily limit. Exporting recordings longer than 30 minutes requires PRO.
It depends on the audio quality. For Slovak we publish our own measurements: GASTON's Slovak model averages a 6.65% word error rate across 8 test sets, about half the errors of OpenAI Whisper large-v3.
See the Slovak benchmark