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Transcribe YouTube video

Transcribe any YouTube video,
captions or not.

AI speech-to-text turns the spoken track into clean transcript text with timestamps. Use it when YouTube's panel is empty, messy, or missing the language you need.

Free AI transcription for videos up to one hour.

When the caption panel
lets you down.

AI transcription is the backup creators reach for when YouTube's own output isn't usable.

YouTube doesn't show a transcript.

The transcript panel is empty, grayed out, or missing. AI speech-to-text fills the gap.

The caption is messy or wrong.

Auto-captions drop words, mangle names, or run-on. Transcribe the video fresh for a cleaner read.

The captions aren't in the language you need.

Generate a fresh transcript instead of relying on a mistranslated caption track.

You want clean text for research or shorts.

Skip the caption panel and get usable text with timestamps, ready to scan or export.

Three steps,
one URL.

Paste, sign in, export. No manual transcription, no stitched-together browser extensions.

01

Paste a YouTube URL

Any public video. No extensions, no console scripting.

02

Create a free account

A free account unlocks AI transcription for videos up to one hour.

03

Read and export

Scan the transcript with timestamps. Download plain text, SRT, or VTT.

Questions, answered.

Any public YouTube video. Free accounts support videos up to one hour. Private and age-restricted videos are not supported.
Accuracy depends on audio quality, speakers, accents, and background noise. Clean audio produces the cleanest results.
Yes. The AI transcription supports multiple languages. Detection is automatic based on the spoken audio.
YouTube's panel only shows what YouTube already generated. If that output is missing or rough, this transcribes the audio directly.
Yes. AI-generated transcripts include timestamps so you can jump back to the exact moment.

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The main entry point — paste a URL, get a clean transcript with timestamps.

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Turn the transcribed audio into a subtitle file for your next edit.

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Transcribe the video
YouTube won't.

Paste your link, fetch public captions instantly, or create a free account to transcribe videos up to one hour free.

No signup needed for public transcripts.