Media Caption
No transcript on YouTube?

No caption panel?
Generate one.

When YouTube doesn't show a transcript, AI speech-to-text can still turn the spoken audio into usable text with timestamps.

Free AI transcription for videos up to one hour.

Why the transcript panel
is empty.

A few common reasons — none of them mean you can't get a transcript.

The creator disabled captions.

Some channels turn off auto-captions entirely. The transcript panel is empty by design.

YouTube never generated one.

Music videos, short clips, non-speech audio, and certain languages may not get auto-captions.

The auto-caption is too messy to use.

Even when captions exist, they can drop words, mangle names, or run together. Re-transcribing is faster than cleaning.

Captions exist, but not in your language.

Generate a fresh transcript instead of working from a mistranslated caption track.

Captions missing?
Use the audio.

AI speech-to-text reads the spoken track directly. No reliance on whatever YouTube did or didn't generate.

01

Paste the video URL.

Any public YouTube video. Free accounts support videos up to one hour.

02

Generate with AI speech-to-text.

The tool transcribes the audio directly instead of pulling captions that aren't there.

03

Read, export, reuse.

You get transcript text with timestamps. Download plain text, SRT, or VTT.

Questions, answered.

Captions can be disabled by the creator, never generated by YouTube, or missing for the language you want. AI transcription works around all three.
It listens to the video's audio and converts spoken words into transcript text with timestamps — no reliance on existing captions.
Free accounts support videos up to one hour. Longer videos may be covered by paid plans or can be handled by splitting.
Accuracy depends on audio quality, speakers, accents, and background noise. Clean audio produces cleaner transcripts.
Yes. If public captions are available, the tool fetches them instantly — no sign-up needed.

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Missing captions?
Still get the transcript.

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.