Most transcripts are ready in under 2 minutes. Even longer videos (1+ hour) are processed in a few minutes — no waiting around.
Why this over YouTube’s free auto-captions?
YouTube’s auto-captions are unpunctuated, have no speaker labels, and aren’t available on every video. Our transcripts come fully punctuated, with speaker detection, timestamps, summaries, and clean exports (TXT, SRT, VTT), ready to drop into your workflow.
Can I use this for non-English videos?
Yes! We support 90+ languages, including Spanish, Hindi, French, Japanese, and more — with excellent accuracy across the board.
What’s included in the free plan?
Free users get access to core features like accurate transcripts, speaker labels, TXT/SRT/VTT exports, and summaries. Upgrade for more hours of transcription and advanced features like speaker renaming, shareable links, longer videos, and API/MCP access.
What kind of Youtube videos work best?
Any public or unlisted video with clear audio. We’re optimized for everything including tutorials, seminars, podcasts and interviews.
Is there a maximum video length?
Yes, but we can process videos of up to 4 hours. Long lectures, full conference talks, and multi-hour podcasts are all handled in a single transcript, no chunking or stitching required.
Why this over running Whisper myself?
Running Whisper yourself means setting up GPUs, downloading audio, chunking long files, and stitching results together. Whisper still doesn’t do speaker diarization (labels) out of the box. We use ElevenLabs Scribe model (which we found beats Whisper on accuracy and speaker detection), wrapped in a pipeline that just works from a YouTube link.
What do I do if something goes wrong or the transcript is wrong?
If you experience errors, we offer support via info@youtubetotext.ai and we’ll review transcript issues manually. We also encourage users to report problematic videos so we can improve our models.
Can I use this for video's I don't own?
As long as the Youtube video's are public, we can create the transcript.