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.

10 free credits for up to 10 minutes of AI transcription.

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.

Paste a public YouTube URL. A free account includes 10 credits, enough for up to 10 minutes of AI transcription.

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 include 10 credits, enough for up to 10 minutes of AI transcription. Longer videos require additional credits.
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 for 10 credits—enough for up to 10 minutes of AI transcription.

No signup needed for public transcripts.