Video conversion
Convert AVI to TXT
AVI is a video file, and TXT can only hold text, so this conversion doesn't touch the picture at all. What it does is listen to the spoken audio in the video and write down what's said as a plain text transcript. Morphjet does the listening and writing on your own computer, without uploading the video anywhere.
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- Extension
- .avi
- Type
- Video
- Typically
- Legacy Windows video
- Extension
- .txt
- Type
- Documents
- Typically
- Plain text files
Convert AVI to TXT on your own computer. Nothing uploads.
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How to convert AVI to TXT
- Open Morphjet and drag in the AVI file, or a whole folder of them.
- Choose TXT as the output format.
- Convert. Morphjet transcribes the spoken audio on your own computer and writes it out as a plain text file, right next to the original.
AVI vs TXT: what actually changes
| AVI | TXT | |
|---|---|---|
| File size | Often hundreds of MB to several GB | A few KB, just the words |
| What it holds | Picture and sound | A written transcript of what's said |
| Playable as video | Yes | No |
| Opens in | A video player | Any text editor |
| Preserves | Every frame and sound, including music and background noise | The words that were spoken, not the picture or the sound itself |
| Searchable or copyable | No, you'd have to watch the whole thing to find a line | Yes, you can search or copy the words directly |
When to convert, and when not to
This makes sense when you want a readable, searchable record of what was said in a video, like a lecture, interview, meeting recording, or vlog, without watching the whole thing back or typing it out by hand.
Keep the AVI itself if you need the picture or the sound, since a transcript only captures the words. Skip it too if the audio is mostly music, sound effects, or hard to make out under background noise, because a transcription works best on clear speech and will struggle or guess wrong on unclear audio.
Why not just use an online converter?
Online transcription tools work by uploading your video to a server, which means anything said in it, names, numbers, private details, passes through someone else's system first. Morphjet transcribes the audio locally, on your own computer, so the video and everything said in it never has to leave your machine.
Questions
Does converting AVI to TXT give me an exact transcript?
It gives you a close, readable transcript of the spoken audio, not a word-for-word guarantee. Clear speech transcribes well. Mumbled words, heavy accents, or noisy backgrounds can lead to the occasional wrong word, so it's worth a quick read-through for anything important.
Can it handle a video with multiple speakers?
It transcribes everything that's said, but it writes out the words themselves rather than labeling who said what. For a clean back-and-forth transcript with speaker names, you'd still want to edit it afterward.
Does it work with languages other than English?
Morphjet can transcribe speech in a range of languages. Accuracy is generally best on clearly spoken audio in widely used languages, and can drop off with heavy background noise or less common languages.
Does it need an internet connection?
No. The transcription runs entirely on your own computer, so it works with your wifi off. Nothing about the video or the transcript is sent anywhere.
Can I transcribe a whole folder of AVI files at once?
Yes. Drop a folder in and Morphjet transcribes each video in turn, writing a matching TXT file next to every original.
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