Paste a YouTube link.
Get a clean transcript in 2 minutes.

😤 The YouTube auto-caption problem

YouTube has auto-captions on most videos. So why doesn't anyone use them as a real transcript? Three reasons everyone learns the hard way:

• No speakers. A two-person podcast becomes one wall of text. You can't tell who said what.
• No timestamps you can click. Word-level alignment is missing — you can't jump back to "the part at 14:23 where she mentioned X."
• Crud you have to delete. "[Music]", repeated phrases, mis-heard names, no punctuation in long stretches.

Copy-pasting the auto-caption pane and cleaning it by hand takes longer than the video itself.

⚡ What Whipscribe does instead

Paste the YouTube URL. We pull the audio, transcribe it, and hand you back a transcript with:

• A summary, key quotes and chapters that name the speakers, so you can see who said what.
• Word-level timestamps — click any word, the audio jumps to that exact moment.
• Punctuation, capitalisation, and "[Music]" tags actually stripped.
• SRT, VTT, DOCX, or plain-text export.

A 60-minute YouTube video lands in about 2 minutes on our pipeline. A 10-minute video lands in under 30 seconds.

🎯 What people actually use this for

• Researchers citing what a specific guest said on a specific podcast episode.
• Journalists who need a quote with a timestamp anchor for fact-checking.
• Creators repurposing a 90-min interview into a blog post or a TikTok pull-quote.
• People who can't watch a 2-hour video and just want to skim it.