Paste a YouTube link and get the full transcript with timestamps. Translate it into 15 languages, download it, or get an AI summary. Free, no account.
YouTube shows transcripts for videos with captions, but only on desktop and with no download or copy button.
This generator uses the same captions, but gives you the whole transcript as clean text you can copy, download, translate, or summarize in one click.
Turn a lecture or tutorial into text you can skim, search, and highlight instead of rewatching.
Find the exact sentence and timestamp to cite from an interview, talk, or podcast episode.
Start a blog post, newsletter, or social thread from your own video's transcript.
Download an .srt file to edit captions, or read along when you can't play sound.
Paste the video's link into the box above and click Get transcript. The full transcript appears in a few seconds, with timestamps you can show or hide. You can also find it on YouTube itself under "Show transcript" in the description on desktop, though YouTube has no download button.
Yes. There's no account, no watermark, and no payment. Each browser can get up to 30 transcripts and summaries a day.
Yes. Most YouTube videos have captions generated automatically by YouTube, and the tool uses them when the creator hasn't uploaded their own. Automatic captions have no punctuation polish and can misspell names, so check anything you plan to quote.
Yes. Choose a language before you click Get transcript, or switch it afterwards. When the video doesn't have captions in that language, YouTube's machine translation is used.
Yes. Download .txt for plain text, or .srt for a subtitle file with timings that works in most video editors and players.
Some videos have captions turned off by the creator, are too new for automatic captions, or are music with no speech. Private and age-restricted videos can't be read either. If you have the audio or video file, Wave's free file transcription tool can transcribe it directly.
Yes. That's what the Wave app does. It records meetings, phone calls, lectures, and in-person conversations on iPhone, Android, Mac, Windows, and Apple Watch, and gives you a transcript with speaker labels plus an AI summary for every recording.
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