Read the audio track
The video path takes the MP4's audio track and sends it through the transcription workflow.
Turn an MP4 recording into text on your Mac.
Turn a talking-head recording into a transcript, SRT, or JSON you can pass along. AFK takes one MP4 with an audio track through its CLI at a time; re-export a MOV to MP4 first.
One talking-head recording, one text file.
Put the MP4 on your Mac and redirect stdout to the format you want. A plain transcript is the simplest path:
$ afk transcribe talking-head.mp4 > talking-head.txt $ afk transcribe talking-head.mp4 --srt > talking-head.srt $ afk transcribe talking-head.mp4 --json > talking-head.json
What AFK does with the video.
AFK extracts the MP4's audio track into a private temporary directory, transcribes that audio, and removes the temporary files after success or failure.
A video becomes a file you can use.
Choose the result
Redirect plain text, SRT, or JSON depending on what the recording needs next.
Keep it composable
Transcript text goes to stdout while progress and errors stay on stderr.
Keep the transcript moving.
The CLI reference covers flags, output streams, and exit behavior. For a folder of recordings, the shell-loop workflow keeps each source paired with its transcript. See the current AFK price.