On a Mac:
- Open the video file in Quicktime
- Choose File
- Click on Export As
- Choose Audio Only
- Pick your destination and save.
- Done.
On a Windows computer:
(Or a Mac), unfortunately they seem to need additional software for this.
- Download VLC (free and pretty much standard) at https://www.videolan.org/
- Open VLC
- Choose Media (or File)
- Choose Convert / Save
- Click browse and choose your file, or drag and drop your video file.
- Choose the profile “mp3”
- Choose your destination and save.
Online tool for extracting sound from a video file:
- There are a few free tools to do this, here we’re using: https://audio-extractor.net
- Upload your video file, wait for it to complete.
- Select “mp3" as format.
- Click “Extract audio”.
- Confirm the download in the next step by clicking “Download”.
- Done.
Want to use this file to create an SRT file? Read more here.