Transcription Without Learning AI Tools: A Bot Inside Telegram

The problem: AI is everywhere, but using it is still work

You have probably tried it. You paste a short text into a chat assistant and get a neat answer. Then you have a YouTube link, an hour of voice notes or a recorded call, and it gets complicated. General-purpose assistants often cannot open a video link at all, and a long recording means picking a transcription service, signing up, uploading the file, waiting, and exporting the result somewhere else.

For many people that is too many steps for something they need once or twice a week.

A tool that is already in your pocket

The Fish bot lives inside Telegram. There is nothing to install, no website account to create and no prompt to write.

1. Open the bot in Telegram.
2. Send an audio or video file, or paste a link from YouTube, Instagram Reels, TikTok, Facebook or Google Drive.
3. Wait a few minutes and get the result in the same chat.

What you get back

• A transcript with timestamps as a text file, so you can search it and jump to the exact moment in the recording.
• An AI summary — the main points of a long recording in a short list.
• A ready .srt file if you need subtitles for a video.

Files are deleted from the server right after transcription, and you download the transcript from the chat.

Who it is for

For people who need text from speech and do not want to build a workflow around it: journalists with interviews, students with lectures, managers with meeting recordings, podcasters, editors and anyone who sends voice messages instead of typing.

What if you like building your own setup?

Then you probably do not need this. If you enjoy chaining your own tools together, you can. The bot is for everyone else, who would rather spend the time on the text than on the tool.

How much it costs

You get 15 free minutes every month, with no card and no sign-up. If you need more, you can buy a minutes package inside the bot with Telegram Stars. There is no subscription and no automatic renewal.