Paste any YouTube link and get an accurate transcript with speaker labels, timestamps, and AI summaries, in 90+ languages.
Sarah: So the first thing people get wrong about this is that they assume you need expensive gear to start.
Mike: Right, and that's exactly the myth we want to break down today.
Sarah: Your phone is genuinely enough
Common enemy
YouTube's transcript panel is just its auto-captions: speech chopped into short timestamped lines, with every um and [Music] tag left in and no way to tell who's talking. Fine for jumping around a video. Not something you'd want to read, quote, or study from.
So um, was it scary to
quit? Yeah, it was a huge wait
off my shoulders. [Music]
Sarah: Was it scary to quit?
Mike: Yeah, it was a huge weight off my shoulders.
For researchers, students & creators
A clean transcript is the fastest way to work with a video. Find the exact moment someone said something without scrubbing. Pull citable quotes with timestamps. Repurpose a podcast into a blog post, newsletter, and social clips in one pass. Reading is faster than watching, and a transcript makes every video skimmable.
Transcription
Drop a YouTube link. Get a full transcript in under 2 minutes: speaker labels, timestamps, and your choice of verbatim or AI-cleaned output. Ready to search, quote, or repurpose.
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Automatic multi-speaker detection. Rename speakers once, it updates everywhere.
The TL;DR without the DR. Key points, pull-quotes, and timestamps, done.
Get your text in Spanish, French, Japanese, Arabic, and 85+ more.
Use cases
A few of the ways people put transcripts to work.
Paste a lecture, get searchable notes. Find that one thing your professor said without scrubbing through an hour of video.
Paste a podcast or interview. Walk away with a blog post, social quotes, a newsletter draft, and a speaker-labeled transcript, all in one run.
Verbatim mode keeps every filler word, every false start, every speaker, exactly as said. Citable, archivable, court-of-record ready.
YouTube auto-captions failing you in your language? We recognize 90+ languages, and translate into them too.
Pull exact quotes with timestamps and speaker names, verify what was actually said, and link straight to the moment. No scrubbing, no mishearing.
10 free minutes. No credit card. Paste a link, see what comes out, then decide if it's worth paying for.
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Quality of the transcript is high, great for what I need.
Johan L.
Solo Creator
I use this to create material for my classes. The transcriptions are surprisingly good. Great time saver.
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Teacher
Transcribed a 4 hour medical conference meeting that I missed. Did the job well.
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Medical Researcher
I prefer reading, so instead of watching financial news on YouTube, I get the transcript and read it.
Patience A.
Financial Analyst
Speaker labels and timestamps out of the box. I turn one interview into a blog post and show notes in minutes.
Andrew K.
Podcaster
I quote interviews for articles. Speaker labels plus timestamps mean I can verify every line before it goes to print.
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Journalist
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YouTube's auto-captions hit roughly 60–70% word accuracy, drop all punctuation and capitalisation, have no speaker labels, and aren't available on every video.
YoutubeToText averages 96–98% on clean speech and 92–95% on noisy podcasts or heavy accents, with proper punctuation, speaker detection, timestamps, and AI summaries. Export clean TXT, SRT, or VTT, ready to drop into your workflow.
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Turn any video into a clean, searchable transcript with speaker labels, timestamps, and a summary, ready in minutes.